Garry's Mod Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-05-20
- Encourages limitless creativity
- Rich community content
- Sandbox gameplay with creative freedom
- Performance and server issues
- Outdated and poor graphics
- Complexity for beginners
Emotions
Archetypes
Hardware
Windows <8GB VRAMpositiveWindows 8-11GB VRAM / 16-31GB RAMpositive
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Overwhelmingly Positive (9/10)
- Total reviews
- 1,236,807
- Positive
- 1,197,95096.9%
- Negative
- 38,8573.1%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 61,678,767
- Estimated revenue
- $616,170,882
- Game price
- $10
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 3840.36%
- Estimated copies lost
- 19,150
- Estimated revenue lost
- $191,309
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 3870.4% Avg playtime 0.9h | 1,1851.1% Avg playtime 1h |
| > 2h playtime | 2,6622.5% Avg playtime 455h | 101,57996% Avg playtime 257.5h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 23.2 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 283.7 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 1,152.6 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 4,556.9 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
105,813 total
Organic purchasers93,91688.8%
Voted up: 97%
Key activations11,89711.2%
Voted up: 96%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
105,813 total
First impression0-2h3,5453.35%
Voted up: 87%
Mid game2-10h29,34927.7%
Voted up: 98%
Late game10-20h15,39414.5%
Voted up: 98%
Endgame20h+57,52554.4%
Voted up: 97%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
98.1%
Global baseline 97.1%
315 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 1,236,807 total.