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A Short Hike vs Wallpaper Engine

Reviews on Steam

Wallpaper Engine

49.0× more reviews

Critical reception

A Short Hike

1.1pp gap

Cheaper at launch

Wallpaper Engine

$3.00 cheaper

Estimated sales (median)

Wallpaper Engine

24.5× more units (white-box estimate)

More recent

A Short Hike

1 years apart

A

A Short Hike

2019 · Adventure

adamgryu · adamgryu

Reviews
18,683
Positive
99%
Launch price
$7.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
1.5M
Net rev
$6.8M
B

Wallpaper Engine

2018 · Casual

Wallpaper Engine Team · Wallpaper Engine Team

Reviews
914,881
Positive
98%
Launch price
$4.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
36.6M
Net rev
$104.3M

Tag overlap

20% shared , 4 shared tags, 16 only on A Short Hike, 16 only on Wallpaper Engine.

Only A Short Hike

ExplorationRelaxingAdventurePixel GraphicsOpen WorldCasualNatureShortGreat Soundtrack3D PlatformerBeautifulFamily FriendlyFemale ProtagonistFlightWalking SimulatorThird Person

Shared

CuteIndieSingleplayerFunny

Only Wallpaper Engine

MatureUtilitiesAnimeSoftwareDesign & IllustrationAnimation & ModelingFirst-PersonNSFWMemesActionEarly AccessPhoto EditingSandboxHorrorGamingGame Development

Sales estimates

Both estimates use the same vv1.0 multi-factor Boxleiter method. Click "How is this calculated?" on either to see the per-factor breakdown.

Sales estimate

vv1.0

897K to 2.1M

units (median: 1.5M)

$4.1M to $9.5M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

897Kmedian2.1M

Sales estimate

vv1.0

22.0M to 51.2M

units (median: 36.6M)

$62.6M to $146.0M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

22.0Mmedian51.2M

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