40 Fun Facts About Garry's Mod

In which Garry's Mod game mode does one team hide as everyday objects while the other seeks them?

Prop Hunt was popularised through Garry's Mod, and versions of it later appeared in Call of Duty, Fortnite and Genshin Impact.

Garry Newman built Garry's Mod as a mod for the Source engine and, principally, which Valve shooter?

Half-Life 2 was the foundation because Newman felt his programming skills were not yet good enough to build a full game on the engine.

Before Garry's Mod took off, Garry Newman was fired from a programming job at what kind of website?

Online dating was the site's business, and Newman lost the job when he launched a rival site of his own.

What does Garry's Mod call its spawnable character bodies, whose individual limbs can be posed and frozen?

Ragdolls are spawned so freely that the Dollhouse achievement only unlocks after a player has created 2,000 of them.

In July 2024, Garry's Mod creator Garry Newman received a takedown notice over which viral web series?

Skibidi Toilet's creator later said that he had not sent the claim himself and was trying to contact Newman.

Which Garry's Mod tool lets players pick up props, rotate them and freeze them in place?

The Physics gun fires a coloured beam at its target, and pressing R twice in quick succession unfreezes every prop that player has spawned.

A 2024 takedown notice from which Japanese company made Facepunch strip Garry's Mod Workshop entries?

Nintendo's notice covered so many uploads that Facepunch asked community members to delete their own to help clear the backlog.

If a Garry's Mod server lacks your addon player model, you appear to everyone as which scientist?

Dr. Kleiner is the default player model, and a multiplayer server can also override whichever model you picked as your preferred one.

Garry's Mod's success let Facepunch branch out into which multiplayer survival game, inspired by DayZ?

Rust sold over 150,000 copies in the first two weeks of its alpha release and left early access in February 2018.

Garry's Mod's Bad Coder achievement counts 500 errors in which scripting language, used for its addons?

Lua, whose name is Portuguese for moon, powers the game's addons and game modes, and GMod embeds its own modified version of the language.

Which hidden-traitor game mode won a Facepunch contest and was added to Garry's Mod itself in 2010?

Trouble in Terrorist Town earned its place in the base game as the contest winner, arriving in July 2010 alongside Dogfight: Arcade Assault.

Holding which key opens the spawn menu in Garry's Mod by default, giving access to props and tools?

Q is held down rather than tapped, and while the menu is open the crosshair is replaced by a mouse cursor.

Garry's Mod's Popper achievement is earned by bursting 1,000 of which spawnable construction item?

Balloons are one of the game's Construction tools, listed beside Dynamite, the Thruster and the Hover Ball.

Which YouTuber, born Evan Fong, is known for montage videos of friends playing Garry's Mod?

VanossGaming, a Canadian creator, often films on user-made servers, exploring odd landscapes and showing off the game's exploits.

Garry's Mod developer Facepunch Studios was founded by Garry Newman in 2004 in which country?

England is home to Facepunch, which has its headquarters in Birmingham and had grown to more than 50 staff by 2023.

Which Facepunch platform, released in April 2026, is billed as the spiritual successor to Garry's Mod?

S&box runs on Valve's Source 2 engine, and its creators can export their projects as standalone games to sell on Steam royalty free.

Which multi-purpose Garry's Mod item welds props together and alters characters' facial expressions?

The tool gun takes on whichever tool is picked in the spawn menu, from Rope and Winch to the Face Poser and Remover.

Because standalone Garry's Mod needed a second game's files, it launched in a bundle with which shooter?

Counter-Strike: Source supplies assets that many community maps rely on, so a 2025 update finally built the most-used ones into the game.

Roughly how many copies had Garry's Mod sold by September 2021, fifteen years after its Steam release?

20 million copies was a long way from launch day in 2006, when just 5,729 were sold.

In Garry's Mod's hidden-traitor mode, which role is known to every player and carries a DNA scanner?

Detectives use the scanner to trace a dead player's killer, helping the Innocents pick out those who only pretend to be on their side.

Garry's Mod's easily posed characters made it a late-2000s favourite for which kind of filmmaking?

Machinima made in the game includes Full Life Consequences, which animated a 2008 fan fiction complete with its typing errors.

In 2012, Garry's Mod's Windows version added support for which full-body motion-tracking peripheral?

Kinect lets a player stand in front of the sensor while a spawned character copies their movements, handy for acting out a film alone.

Garry's Mod gained an experimental client for which operating system in 2013, during its move to SteamPipe?

Linux arrived on 5 June 2013, nearly three years after the game's first port away from Windows.

Garry Newman released version 1 of Garry's Mod in 2004 on which date, to a polarised first reaction?

Christmas Eve 2004 brought version 1, which some players dismissed as too close to an existing mod before positive feedback won out.

Garry Newman has called keeping the Garry's Mod name a mistake, saying he should have used which title?

Sandbox was Newman's choice with hindsight, since the game had stopped being a mod once it went on sale as a standalone release.

Holding the C key in Garry's Mod opens what, used to edit objects and choose a player model?

The context menu turns the crosshair into a cursor: right-click an object to see options that apply to it, or open the Player Model widget.

PixelTail Games turned its Garry's Mod hub of minigame servers into which standalone game in 2016?

Tower Unite replaced the original server network, whose website drew two million views within hours of opening in 2009.

In 2024, Guinness World Records named Garry's Mod the best-selling game ever in which category?

PC-exclusive fits a game that never came to consoles, and Guinness made the call in September 2024, shortly before its eighteenth anniversary.

Which Garry's Mod addon adds entities that communicate with each other, used to build robots and computers?

Wiremod's parts talk to each other through wires, and it ranks among the game's most notable addons alongside Spacebuild.

Before Steam Workshop support came in version 13, which Garry's Mod section let players browse and install mods?

Toybox arrived with version 12 and lasted only one major version before the Workshop replaced it.

Garry's Mod began as a side project while Garry Newman was developing which 2D game, his first?

Facewound was shelved as the mod took over, but the brainstorm for its deliberately macho title also produced the studio name Facepunch.

Garry's Mod's spiritual successor was unveiled in 2017 built on which technology, before a switch to Source 2?

Unreal Engine 4 was dropped after development paused in 2019, partly because Valve's engine made it easier to carry tools over from the original game.

Garry's Mod's Addict achievement tells players they have wasted how much of their life playing GMod?

A year of play unlocks Addict, the last rung of a ladder whose earlier achievements mark one day, one week and one month wasted.

In the name of the Garry's Mod game mode DarkRP, what do the letters RP stand for?

Roleplay is the whole point of DarkRP, counted among the game's most notable addons along with Spacebuild and Elevator: Source.

Which gaming website named Garry's Mod its PC Mod of the Year in 2005, before the paid Steam release?

GameSpy gave the award while the mod was still a free download, well before Valve began selling it.

Some early players criticised the first version of Garry's Mod as too similar to which existing mod?

JBMod got there first, but growing positive feedback persuaded Garry Newman to keep developing his own take.

What name links Facepunch's 2009 game-mode contest and Garry's Mod servers that rotate modes every fifteen minutes?

Fretta was a proprietary programming framework, and contest entrants had to build their game modes with it.

Garry's Mod's spiritual successor swaps GMod's scripting language for which one, hot-loaded without a restart?

C# code can be changed while a game is running, so developers see the result at once without compiling or restarting.

After dropping out of college, Garry's Mod creator Garry Newman began developing games from where?

His parents' house was the first home of Facepunch Studios, a name Newman's team chose in order to appear more professional.

Garry's Mod's Procreator achievement is unlocked by spawning 1,000 of what, found in their own spawn menu tab?

NPCs can be bossed about once spawned: a menu lets players alter their behaviour or force them to carry a specific weapon.