Garry's Mod

Garry's Mod

Steam Deck Playable

Facepunch Studios · Sandbox · Nov 29, 2006

Yes, worth buying.

At $9.99. It has been as low as $4.99.

97%
Overwhelmingly Positive
1.3M player reviews
High confidence
Buy it if you like
  • Multiplayer: 32 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Story and characters: 23 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Graphics: 15 reviews raised it, mostly praise
Think twice if you dislike
  • Crashes: 19 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
  • Servers and matchmaking: 10 reviews raised it, mostly criticism

Based on 1.3M player reviews · updated 4 days ago

What players think

The recurring themes across 300 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.

Why players love itThings to know
63% of themes are praise12% are divided25% are caveats
Multiplayer
Players who bring up Multiplayer mostly praise it.
It feels creative in a way modern multiplayer games often forgot how to be.
32 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Story and characters
Players who bring up Story and characters mostly praise it.
Players can build structures, create machines, pose characters, and design custom scenarios using the physics engine.
23 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Graphics
Players who bring up Graphics mostly praise it.
I’ve heard they finally added Source textures into the game, so you don’t need to buy CS:Source anymore, which is nice.
15 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Gameplay
Players who bring up Gameplay mostly praise it.
Visually, the game is outdated, but this does not matter much because gameplay and creativity are the main focus.
13 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Performance
Players who bring up Performance mostly praise it.
Its a good game, i would recommend to all my friends, because the sandbox is fun with friends especially if you have mods, then its a really fun game, because the mods make the game way better and funnier, but it depends on the mods, like for example if you have a graphics mod its not that fun but if you have a weapons mods than its really fun to shoot at your friends, because shooting your friends is way more funnier than the game looking pretty, i dont have any mods that i would recommend, i will only say install the most subscribed mods, and a couple of fps boosters and a litlle bit of player model skins.
7 of 300 sampled reviews raised it

Theme by theme

Every theme is scored by what reviewers actually said about it, not just whether they recommended the game.

LovedMixedComplained about
Players love5 themes
Multiplayer32 reviews
Story and characters23 reviews
Graphics15 reviews
Gameplay13 reviews
Performance7 reviews
Divided opinion% still recommend
Combat11 reviews
100%
Players complain% still recommend
Crashes19 reviews
95%
Servers and matchmaking10 reviews
90%

Ranked by how many sampled reviews mention each topic. A topic sits in a column by what reviewers said about that topic; the percentage beside it is how many of them recommended the game anyway. 3 more themes were each raised by fewer than 6 sampled reviews and are not shown.

Should you buy it now?

Crit’s read on the price, from Steam price history.

Prices have been lower

Currently $9.99. The lowest we've tracked is $4.99.

6 points recordedtoday · $9.99

The data behind the verdict

For the players who want the receipts.

Player review score
97%
Overwhelmingly Positive
Playing right now
Achievements
29
total to unlock
Rarest-achievement stats coming soon
Average playtime
Not tracked yet

We’ll surface hours-played once playtime ingestion ships.