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Ex-Zodiac vs Wallpaper Engine

Reviews on Steam

Wallpaper Engine

879.7× more reviews

Critical reception

Wallpaper Engine

3.8pp gap

Cheaper at launch

Wallpaper Engine

$7.00 cheaper

Estimated sales (median)

Wallpaper Engine

586.5× more units (white-box estimate)

More recent

Ex-Zodiac

4 years apart

A

Ex-Zodiac

2022 · Action

MNKY · Pixeljam

Reviews
1,040
Positive
94%
Launch price
$11.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
62K
Net rev
$0.4M
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, 14 only on Ex-Zodiac, 16 only on Wallpaper Engine.

Only Ex-Zodiac

On-Rails ShooterShoot 'Em UpShooterArcadeFemale ProtagonistFlight3DPixel GraphicsColorfulRetroSpaceGreat SoundtrackSci-fi1990's

Shared

ActionIndieSingleplayerEarly Access

Only Wallpaper Engine

MatureUtilitiesAnimeSoftwareDesign & IllustrationAnimation & ModelingFirst-PersonNSFWMemesCuteFunnyPhoto 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

37K to 87K

units (median: 62K)

≈ $256K to $598K net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

37Kmedian87K

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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