
From simple building games to stat-based role-playing games to watermelon racing, the experience changes drastically in the multi-player game. You never know exactly what you’re going to find when you join a multi-player server. One of my personal favorites is the PHX Premium Pack which adds a ton of new spawn items and tools to help further realize your creative visions. Featuring nearly 10,000 files, it’s seemingly impossible not to find something of interest.

There are also websites where you can download content from other players. Garry’s Mod also features Lua scripting, so the amount of new game modes and content is nearly limitless. Thanks to the Source SDK, anyone can make new objects, levels, items, and game modes. It will probably be a long time before you do run out of things to keep yourself occupied, as one of Garry’s Mod’s great strengths is its user expandability. Attach them to things, pose them, throw them off of buildings, whatever you want to do with a ragdoll. Even if you run out of things to build, or want to try something different, you can always play with ragdolls, which is inherently fun. Garry’s Mod has enough tools and options that there’s no conceivable limit to the things you can make. A second gun, “the tool gun” is used to weld objects together, attach wheels and thrusters, and generally do the majority of the building process. This gun behaves exactly how you want it to, and once you’ve gotten used to it, its presence will seem transparent. The primary method of interacting with objects in the game world is “the physics gun.” The physics gun, a beam weapon comparable to the proton gun from the movie Ghostbusters, is an intuitive way to interact with objects, and it allows you to move and rotate objects, as well as freeze them in place with ease.

The game is viewed from the first-person and has both single-player and multi-player modes, each offering different experiences. For example, ropes, pulleys, welds, and different physical properties can all be applied to objects. Players are given a huge variety of objects to spawn (ranging from coffee mugs to freight trains) as well as ragdolls and a list of various ways in which to interact with these objects. Garry’s Mod is a sandbox game with no goals or expectations.
