Garry's Mod

Nov 29, 2006CasualIndieSimulationLinuxPC (Microsoft Windows)Mac

About Garry's Mod

Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play. You spawn objects and weld them together to create your own contraptions - whether that's a car, a rocket, a catapult or something that doesn't have a name yet - that's up to you. You can do it offline, or join the thousands of players who play online each day. If you're not too great at construction - don't worry! You can place a variety of characters in silly positions. But if you want to do more, we have the means.

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Garry's Mod on Wikipedia

Garry's Mod, commonly clipped as GMod, is a 2006 sandbox game developed by Facepunch Studios and published by Valve. The base game mode of Garry's Mod has no set objectives and provides the player with a world in which to freely manipulate objects. Other game modes, notably Trouble in Terrorist Town and Prop Hunt, are created by other developers as mods and are installed separately, by means such as the Steam Workshop. Garry's Mod was created by Garry Newman as a mod for Valve's Source game engine and released in December 2004, before being expanded into a standalone release that was published by Valve in November 2006. Ports of the original Windows version for Mac OS X and Linux followed in September 2010 and June 2013, respectively. As of September 2021, Garry's Mod has sold more than 20 million copies. A spiritual successor, S&box, was released in 2026.

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Game details

Developer: Facepunch Studios
Publisher: Valve
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
Themes: Sandbox
Official site: Visit

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Reception

Steam reviews

Overwhelmingly Positive

1,240,714 reviews · 97% positive

IGDB rating

79/100

from 458 ratings

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Garry's Mod player count

Garry's Mod has 20,389 players in-game on Steam right now — up 32% from 24 hours ago. Its 24-hour peak was 33,728 concurrent players. Updated hourly.

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33,728 24-hour peak

36,534 7-day peak

39,315 all-time peak

#49 most played on Steam

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