Balatro vs Wallpaper Engine
Reviews on Steam
Wallpaper Engine
5.9× more reviews
Critical reception
Wallpaper Engine
0.2pp gap
Cheaper at launch
Wallpaper Engine
$10.00 cheaper
Estimated sales (median)
Wallpaper Engine
5.2× more units (white-box estimate)
More recent
Balatro
6 years apart
Balatro
2024 · Casual
- Reviews
- 155,457
- Positive
- 98%
- Launch price
- $14.99
- Engine
- n/a
- Sales (median)
- 7.0M
- Net rev
- $59.9M
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
10% shared , 2 shared tags, 18 only on Balatro, 18 only on Wallpaper Engine.
Only Balatro
Card GameRoguelike DeckbuilderRogue-likeDeckbuildingStrategyPixel GraphicsReplay ValueRogue-liteTurn-BasedCard BattlerCasualDifficultChoices Matter2DTurn-Based StrategyRelaxingArcadeProcedural Generation
Shared
SingleplayerIndie
Only Wallpaper Engine
MatureUtilitiesAnimeSoftwareDesign & IllustrationAnimation & ModelingFirst-PersonNSFWMemesCuteActionFunnyEarly 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
vv1.04.2M to 9.8M
units (median: 7.0M)
≈ $35.9M to $83.9M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
Sales estimate
vv1.022.0M to 51.2M
units (median: 36.6M)
≈ $62.6M to $146.0M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
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