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DREDGE vs Wallpaper Engine

Reviews on Steam

Wallpaper Engine

20.1× more reviews

Critical reception

Wallpaper Engine

2.2pp gap

Cheaper at launch

Wallpaper Engine

$20.00 cheaper

Estimated sales (median)

Wallpaper Engine

10.7× more units (white-box estimate)

More recent

DREDGE

5 years apart

A

DREDGE

2023 · Adventure

Black Salt Games · Team17

Reviews
45,431
Positive
96%
Launch price
$24.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
3.4M
Net rev
$48.6M
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

15% shared , 3 shared tags, 17 only on DREDGE, 17 only on Wallpaper Engine.

Only DREDGE

ExplorationFishingLovecraftianAdventureOpen WorldMysteryInventory ManagementAtmosphericPsychological HorrorRPGSimulationStylizedSurvival HorrorPsychologicalStory RichSailing3D

Shared

HorrorSingleplayerIndie

Only Wallpaper Engine

MatureUtilitiesAnimeSoftwareDesign & IllustrationAnimation & ModelingFirst-PersonNSFWMemesCuteActionFunnyEarly AccessPhoto EditingSandboxGamingGame 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

2.0M to 4.8M

units (median: 3.4M)

≈ $29.2M to $68.1M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

2.0Mmedian4.8M

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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