Garry's Mod (GMOD) FOR MAC

Above all else, Garry's Mod (also known as GMOD) is a game designed from scratch to bring your creativity to the surface by allowing you to construct almost any type of contraption you may think of, using models from other Source engine based games on Steam.

Moreover, although designed from the get-go as a physics sandbox game that enables you to play with a vast array of models to setup intricate scenes, Garry’s Mod has evolved during the years inasmuch as it now offers a multitude of game modes.

Thus, once you’ve installed Garry’s Mod on your Mac, you can go ahead and play it on your own or have your Steam friends join you and create any machine you may think of in a matter of minutes, from speed buggies to anti-gravity propelled rockets.

In order to build your gadgets and gizmos, you will have at your disposal two guns: a physics gun and a tool gun. The first one helps you manipulate objects and freeze them in any position you need them and the second is useful for adjusting and controlling the physics properties of any object.

Garry’s Mod also makes it possible to play a ragdoll posing game mode, in which you can control any number of spawned models for quickly setting up scenes in machinimas and fan made videos.

One other worth mentioning game mode in Garry’s Mod is the multiplayer, that enables you to be a part of role play server with a dystopian society controlled by the state police or as one of the many characters that try to finish an obstacle course filled with all sorts of traps that can be triggered by a “Death” player with a single mission: to stop everyone else from reaching the end alive.

As an added bonus, while playing Garry’s Mod knowledge of the Lua scripting language will take you even further if you want to additionally customize the gameplay by allowing you to design weapons, models and even your own game modes.

These custom creations are called addons and mods and they can be shared with all the other Garry’s Mod players via the built-in addon market.

On the whole, in spite of the fact that Garry’s Mod does not provide you with a game mode per-se, it offers you enough tools and props to make it very easy to construct your own freakish and bizarre worlds that may or may not follow the real life physics laws we all know and enjoy (or not).