🔨Garry's Mod
The ur-sandbox. Gmod gamemodes are half the friend-slop ecosystem.
Facepunch's physics sandbox. TTT, Prop Hunt, Murder, Sandbox, DarkRP — dozens of community gamemodes are the real product. The OG friend-stack server game. Still going after 20 years.
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Quickstart
How to actually play this with friends — written by Claude.## Set it up - Install via Steam — free-to-play-adjacent price, so the whole group can grab it fast - The Workshop is the actual content: subscribe to a gamemode (TTT, Prop Hunt, Murder, DarkRP) with one click before you host or join a server - Vanilla supports up to 16 players, so pick your gamemode based on group size rather than hunting for a cap mod
## Your first session - Start with Trouble in Terrorist Town or Prop Hunt — both have a low rules overhead and read instantly even to first-timers - Someone should host a private server for the first round so nobody's dropped into a chaotic public lobby mid-explanation - Let the traitor/hider mechanics do the work — don't over-explain the ruleset, most GMod gamemodes click within one round
## Group size advice - TTT and Murder are tightest at 6-8, where suspicion and bluffing actually mean something - Prop Hunt and Sandbox scale up toward the full 16 for bigger, sillier Discord calls - Twenty years of Workshop content means there's a gamemode for basically any group size or mood
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