Garry’s Mod has bought over 25 million copies since occurring sale 18 years in the past, Facepunch Studios has introduced.
The physics sandbox is now over 25.4 million bought, to be precise, since occurring sale on PC by way of Steam again in 2006.
Designer Garry Newman tweeted to replicate on the astonishing gross sales success of Garry’s Mod, saying: “When Valve first floated the concept of promoting Garry’s Mod on Steam I mentioned no as a result of.. ‘who would pay for that?.’
“Well 18 years later, it seems that 25,560,290 individuals would. Glad to have been flawed on this one.”
18 Years. Thank you! 🎉
Enjoy 40% off Garry’s Mod within the Steam Autumn Sale too: pic.twitter.com/dixlHoYZFS
— Garry’s Mod (@gmodofficial) November 29, 2024
In September, Garry’s Mod was named the best-selling PC unique of all-time by the Guinness Book of Records, beating out the likes of World of Warcraft and its expansions. At the time, Newman joked that he “by no means imagined turning into a world file holder and never be prawn cocktail crisps associated.”
Garry’s Mod allows you to play with fashions from Valve video games developed on the Source engine, and its enduring reputation has seen it stay in steam’s prime 100 most-played video games checklist for years.
In July, Newman mentioned the “Skibidi Toilet guys” had hit him with a DMCA in a wild little bit of litigious irony. But quickly after, an account purporting to be Skibidi Toilet creator Alexey Gerasimov (DaFuq!?Boom) mentioned he wasn’t behind the declare, and Newman then advised IGN that the matter had been “resolved.”
Newman had shared the information in regards to the Skibidi Toilet DMCA, together with pasting a screenshot of the letter he was despatched. The copyright holder the letter was attributed to was Invisible Narratives, the movie and TV manufacturing studio that’s partnering with Michael Bay on a Skibidi Toilet movie.
The letter Newman posted particularly cited Skibidi Toilet characters Titan Cameraman, Titan Speakerman, and Titan TV Man, saying they have been “all registered copyrights which might be distinctive and consultant of our model.” Sure sufficient, a public catalog search reveals that Invisible Narratives had certainly claimed a copyright for Titan Cameraman and three different unpublished works.
The letter added that “vital income is being generated by unauthorized Skibidi Toilet Garry’s Mod video games which might be being marketed in every single place.” The irony was not misplaced on Newman, who declared: “are you able to consider the cheek?” Skidibi Toilet, in fact, is basically made with property from Half-Life 2, and was initially created in Garry’s Mod.
Earlier this 12 months, Facepunch eliminated all Nintendo-related content material on Garry’s Mod – what amounted to twenty years of uploads – from Steam Workshop after receiving a takedown request from Nintendo. Newman is at present engaged on a successor to Garry’s Mod referred to as S&field.
Wesley is the UK News Editor for IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can attain Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.
