Garry's Mod

1001 Video Games

Garry's Mod appears in the book 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die by General Editor Tony Mott.

Sales

On the 2-year anniversary of its release on Steam (November 29, 2008) it was made known that Garry's Mod had sold over 300,000 copies at $9.99 per purchase giving it revenue of over $3,120,000 of which half goes to Valve Corporation. In the night between 10. and 11. September 2014, the game sold its 6,000,000th copy.

Awards

• GameSpy
  • 2005 - Mod of the Year ("It's simple, it's incredibly versatile, and it's given gamers way more hours of pleasure than all the other Counter-Strike knockoffs combined.")
• ModDB
  • 2005 - Mod of the Year
• Steam Awards
  • 2016 — The 'Game Within A Game' Award — Nominated
  • 2017 — The 'Defies Description' Award — Won