How many copies has Garry's Mod sold?

indielist estimates Garry's Mod has sold between 45,416,154 and 105,971,026 units (median 75,693,590), derived from its 1,081,337 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed Garry's Mod?

Garry's Mod was developed by Facepunch Studios and published by Valve.

Who published Garry's Mod?

Garry's Mod was published by Valve, developed by Facepunch Studios. See Valve's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was Garry's Mod released?

Garry's Mod was released in 2006.

How many reviews does Garry's Mod have on Steam?

Garry's Mod has 1,081,337 Steam reviews, of which 97% are positive.

Is Garry's Mod worth playing?

Steam players rate Garry's Mod 97% positive across 1,081,337 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

Garry's Mod

Nov 29, 2006 Casual $9.99

Developer Facepunch Studios Publisher Valve

Profile updated May 2026

Physics-based sandbox mechanics allow players to manipulate objects and create custom game modes within this environment. Since its 2006 launch, the title has maintained a significant presence on Steam with 526,693 reviews. The platform currently holds a 97% positive rating, reflecting its long-term stability and user engagement within the indie market.

Garry's Mod is a 2006 Casual game developed by Facepunch Studios and published by Valve. On Steam it has gathered 1,081,337 player reviews, 97% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Casual category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $10. The pairing of developer Facepunch Studios with publisher Valve is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Casual projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 45.4 million to 106.0 million units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Garry's Mod can be compared against similar Casual titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

1,081,337

Positive

97%

Steam appid

4000

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

26,110

Fresh snapshot · 2026-07-24 12:00 UTC · 24h peak 35,675

Sales estimate

v1.0

45.4M to 106.0M

units (median: 75.7M)

≈ $259.2M to $604.7M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

45.4M median 106.0M

+ How is this calculated?

1,081,337 reviews × NB(70) = 75,693,590 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2006	+30
price_$10	-5
positive_97%	+10
genre_Casual	-15
final NB	70

Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].

Methodology & limitations

Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it, especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.

indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Garry's Mod at roughly 45.4 million to 106.0 million copies, with a median around 75.7 million, derived from its 1,081,337 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $431.9M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.

Price history

55 observed days · window low $4.99

Across 55 observed UTC days from 2026-05-15 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $4.99 to $9.99. The tracked-window low was $4.99 on 2026-06-09.

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Platforms

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Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Garry's Mod sold?: indielist estimates Garry's Mod has sold between 45,416,154 and 105,971,026 units (median 75,693,590), derived from its 1,081,337 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Garry's Mod?: Garry's Mod was developed by Facepunch Studios and published by Valve.
Who published Garry's Mod?: Garry's Mod was published by Valve, developed by Facepunch Studios. See Valve's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Garry's Mod released?: Garry's Mod was released in 2006.
How many reviews does Garry's Mod have on Steam?: Garry's Mod has 1,081,337 Steam reviews, of which 97% are positive.
Is Garry's Mod worth playing?: Steam players rate Garry's Mod 97% positive across 1,081,337 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

Players looking for games like Garry's Mod can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Casual titles such as Fireworks Mania - An Explosive Simulator, Scrap Mechanic, Goat Simulator, PowerWash Simulator, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Facepunch Studios's other releases and Valve's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Garry's Mod sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Garry's Mod page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Casual game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.

Matched from shared Steam tags and primary genre. Review count breaks ties; it is not a personal recommendation score.