Facepunch Studios Ltd — британская независимая студия по разработке и изданию видеоигр, основанная в июне 2004 года и расположенная в Бирмингеме, Англия. Студия была зарегистрирована как юридическое лицо 17 марта 2009 года её основателем и генеральным директором Гарри Ньюманом и работает без материнской компании. Наибольшую известность студии принесли Garry's Mod — физическая песочница на движке Source от Valve, ставшая одной из первых инди-игр в Steam в 2006 году, — и Rust, сурвайвл-игра, вышедшая в ранний доступ в 2013 году и официально запущенная в 2018-м. Помимо этого, студия выпустила Chippy (2019) и разрабатывает s&box — духовного преемника Garry's Mod на движке Source 2. Facepunch является частной компанией, насчитывает более 110 сотрудников и продала свыше 47,5 миллиона копий игр.
Garry’s Mod creator Garry Newman has admitted he’s “ashamed” of the reception to his latest game, revealing plans to make it free-to-play and overhaul the experience. Beginning as a mod for Valve’s Half-Life 2, Garry’s Mod used the Source engine to let players experiment with the game’s physics, characters, and assets before becoming a standalone title. In April 2026, developer Facepunch Studios launched a spiritual successor called s&box, which uses Valve’s newer Source 2 engine and offers players more advanced tools to create and share their own games. However, the project has struggled to win over players, prompting Newman to acknowledge that the studio made some major mistakes.
'My idea of a Netflix for games doesn't work': Garry's Mod successor is getting 'sweeping changes' "I’m sorry—we are going to do better." More radical changes beyond just giving the characters necks are coming to Garry's Mod successor s&box. Facepunch Studios' game creation platform's launch in April was met with a swarm of negative reviews, complaints of AI slop filling its user-generated game collection, and swiftly plummeting user numbers. Now creator Garry Newman is reversing course on some of his decisions, such as pivoting to a 'greenlight type system' for user-generated games and announcing that the platform is going free to play much earlier than expected. We've removed a bunch of games and maps from the system that we feel don't reach this new bar." s&box is also going free-to-play before the end of 2026: "Everyone who has paid for the game will automatically get a bunch of exclusive steam inventory items (extra if you bought it at $20 vs $10) that I hope will justify the purchase price," Newman said.