Although Garry's Mod launched as a free download, it proved to be very popular among modders and Machinima producers, since it allowed assets from other games to be imported and manipulated.

You might think players would be flocking in to play Garry's Mod after the July 2025 update, but the data tells a very different story.

The creator of Garry's Mod — originally a mod to Half-Life 2 sold for real money — has weighed in on Valve's introduction of paid mods in its Steam Workshop, a development that roiled the PC ...