{"id":344123,"date":"2025-10-21T20:12:52","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T20:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/garrys-mod-reaches-20-million-units-sold\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T20:12:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T20:12:52","slug":"garrys-mod-reaches-20-million-units-sold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/garrys-mod-reaches-20-million-units-sold\/","title":{"rendered":"Garry\u2019s Mod Reaches 20 Million Units Sold"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/garrys-mod-reaches-20-million-units-sold.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" alt=\"\" typeof=\"Image\" class=\"image-style-body-default\" \/> <\/p>\n<p><span><span>Remember Garry\u2019s Mod? The PC sandbox game where folks have a blast with physics, construction, characters, and just\u2026 having fun with just about anything around? Well, it just hit 20 million units sold! Wow!\u00a0The title may seem slightly dated today as it first hit the scene back in 2006, but folks are still having fun with it. Obviously, tools like the Steam Workshop have been instrumental in keeping the game alive and going over the many, many years that the title has been relevant. In fact, Garry\u2019s Mod is still quite popular.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tw-align-center twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\">Garry&#8217;s Mod has hit 20m sales! Thanks to everyone who&#8217;s played it over the last 16 years and counting! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zxXQE3wfwM\">pic.twitter.com\/zxXQE3wfwM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Garry&#8217;s Mod (@gmodofficial) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gmodofficial\/status\/1435332160894930946?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 7, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n<span><span>A quick glance at <\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/steamcharts.com\/app\/4000\"><span><span><span><span>Steamcharts<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span><span> reveals that there are 29,000 or so concurrent players at the time of this writing. Wow! Obviously, Steamcharts is not a be-all metric, but that\u2019s still a seriously healthy player base for a game that\u2019s 15 years old. Of course, things continue to change over time with a sandbox experience like this, so players are still creating and discovering new things. Games within games, experiences within experiences. Many platforms today, from Roblox to Core to custom-map settings in Dota embrace the \u201cbuild your own fun\u201d philosophy that Garry\u2019s Mod seems to have spurred in communities.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span>Via modes, there are hundreds of other games you can play within Garry\u2019s Mod, some of which seem to find their way all over the place into other games. It\u2019s like a gaming ouroboros where ideas swirl and churn, and eventually come to Fortnite. That\u2019s how the world works, right? Modding, mapping, and modding communities have been responsible for many breakthrough game genres over the years, and the next one is always right around the corner. What comes after the battle royale craze? It might be happening in Garry&#8217;s Mod right now!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span>Have you played Garry\u2019s Mod? What\u2019s your favorite mode or game? Let us know in the comments!\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/2021\/09\/08\/garrys-mod-reaches-20-million-units-sold\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember Garry\u2019s Mod? The PC sandbox game where folks have a blast with physics, construction, characters, and just\u2026 having fun with just about anything around? Well, it just hit 20 million units sold! Wow!\u00a0The title may seem slightly dated today as it first hit the scene back in 2006, but folks are still having fun with it. Obviously, tools like the Steam Workshop have been instrumental in keeping the game alive and going over the many, many years that the title has been relevant. In fact, Garry\u2019s Mod is still quite popular.\u00a0 Garry&#8217;s Mod has hit 20m sales! Thanks to everyone who&#8217;s played it over the last 16 years and counting! pic.twitter.com\/zxXQE3wfwM \u2014 Garry&#8217;s Mod (@gmodofficial) September 7, 2021 A quick glance at Steamcharts reveals&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/garrys-mod-reaches-20-million-units-sold\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":344124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-344123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-informer"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Garry\u2019s Mod Reaches 20 Million Units Sold | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Remember Garry\u2019s Mod? 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