Garry's Mod
Hooks you almost right away
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 7 reviews are negative (14%); after 20h it's 1 in 40 (3%).
- The opening is criticised less than in 83% of games we track.
- The game has no story achievements, so drop-off points can't be measured.
- 84% of owners got the first achievement.
When it gets good
Share of positive reviews by how many hours the reviewer had played when writing the review.
before it gets good opening up fully opened up
Based on all 1,275,169 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 294 reviews: 30.4h for positive, 67.3h for negative. Almost every game is rated lower in the first 2–3 hours: that window includes refunds and quick first impressions. What matters is how deep the dip is and how fast the game recovers.
Where players quit
Share of players who started the game and reached each story milestone. 100% is the most common achievement (84.3% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
This game has no story achievements, so we can't tell where players quit.
All achievements (29)
story milestone ending side
- Play Multiplayer Play multiplayer at least once 100%
- Play Singleplayer Play singleplayer at least once 94%
- Play Around Play a gamemode that isn't sandbox 88%
- Bad Coder Experience 500 Lua programming errors 57%
- Map Loader Play 20 different maps 45%
- One Day 24 hours of your life wasted 35%
- Procreator Spawn 1000 NPCs 27%
- Half Marathon Play on the same server & map for 4 hours 21%
- Ball Eater Eat 200 balls 15%
- War Zone Killed 1000 Baddies 14%
- Marathon Play on the same server & map for 8 hours 13%
- One Week One whole week of your life wasted 13%
- Bad Friend Kill 1000 friendly NPCs 8.2%
- Secret Phrase Say the secret phrase 7.7%
- Innocent Bystander Kill 1000 innocent animals 7.6%
- Creator Spawn 5000 props 6.2%
- One Month One whole month of your life wasted 5.2%
- Popper Burst 1000 balloons 4.6%
- Startup Millenium Start Garry's Mod 1000 times 4.4%
- Dollhouse Spawn 2000 ragdolls 4.2%
- Menu User Open the spawnmenu 100,000 times 3.7%
- Friendly Play with 10 friends 3.4%
- Destroyer Remove 5000 things 3.4%
- Yes, I am the real garry! Play on the same server as garry 3.3%
- 10 Thumbs Your Workshop uploads got 10 thumbs 3.1%
- 100 Thumbs Your workshop uploads got 100 thumbs 2.8%
- 1000 Thumbs Your Workshop uploads got 1000 thumbs 2.7%
- Mega Upload Get 1000 thumbs on a single upload (then go to jail) 2.7%
- Addict You have wasted a year of your life playing GMod! 2.7%