Garry's Mod
BANGER · Shooter · 2006
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $9.99.
- Length
- 55.7h
- Value
- $0.18/hr
- Reviews
- 97% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 1GB dedicated VRAM or better, 10 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
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.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $2.49, set in February 2013. It has been discounted 73 times in the 14 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 7 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 3 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 99 percent of its genre. Among the games closest to it, Fireworks Mania - An Explosive Simulator ($14.99, scores 62) and Scrap Mechanic ($28.99, scores 79) both come in lower.
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 31 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written July 2026 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 85 percent of the 32,088 reviews written there were positive, against 97 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it.
55.7 hours to finish it, 557 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 10 times the campaign.
It came out 20 years ago and 18.4K were still playing it at the last check.
2 players here own this. Their libraries average 65 BANG. See the leaderboard →
The drop-off
84% start to 2% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
18.4K players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
This is just peak at it's finest, the stupid amount of mods makes it that it becomes nearly impossible to get bored in this game
actually its not that bad its fun but being alone isnt fun and scary so just to make sure that you guys who played this game dont play alone play with friends an you actually have a good time on the game,
Garry's Mod is not a game. It is a lifestyle. I bought this game expecting to mess around for a few hours. 3,000 hours later, I have accomplished absolutely nothing. You can build anything, become anything, and do anything. Want to spend 6 hours making a completely useless contraption? You can. Want to install 47,000 addons and crash your computer? You can. Want to join a server where nobody knows what is happening...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
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Garry's Mod scores 97/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/4000/garry-s-modThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 10, price as of Sep 24.
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