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CastleMiner Z vs Wallpaper Engine

Reviews on Steam

Wallpaper Engine

82.2× more reviews

Critical reception

Wallpaper Engine

16.8pp gap

Cheaper at launch

Wallpaper Engine

$1.00 cheaper

Estimated sales (median)

Wallpaper Engine

43.9× more units (white-box estimate)

More recent

Wallpaper Engine

4 years apart

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CastleMiner Z

2014 · Action

DigitalDNA Games · DigitalDNA Games

Reviews
11,127
Positive
81%
Launch price
$5.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
835K
Net rev
$2.9M
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

25% shared , 5 shared tags, 15 only on CastleMiner Z, 15 only on Wallpaper Engine.

Only CastleMiner Z

Open World Survival CraftSurvivalZombiesMultiplayerAdventureOpen WorldCraftingCo-opFPSShooterDragonsWalking SimulatorOnline Co-OpSurvival HorrorPvP

Shared

ActionSandboxIndieFirst-PersonHorror

Only Wallpaper Engine

MatureUtilitiesAnimeSoftwareDesign & IllustrationAnimation & ModelingNSFWMemesCuteSingleplayerFunnyEarly AccessPhoto EditingGamingGame 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

501K to 1.2M

units (median: 835K)

$1.7M to $4.0M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

501Kmedian1.2M

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

How comparison pages work

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