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Gloomwood vs Wallpaper Engine

Reviews on Steam

Wallpaper Engine

112.6× more reviews

Critical reception

Wallpaper Engine

2.9pp gap

Cheaper at launch

Wallpaper Engine

$15.00 cheaper

Estimated sales (median)

Wallpaper Engine

75.1× more units (white-box estimate)

More recent

Gloomwood

4 years apart

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Gloomwood

2022 · Action

Dillon Rogers · New Blood Interactive

Reviews
8,125
Positive
95%
Launch price
$19.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
488K
Net rev
$5.6M
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

20% shared , 4 shared tags, 16 only on Gloomwood, 16 only on Wallpaper Engine.

Only Gloomwood

Immersive SimStealthSurvival HorrorFPSAtmosphericExplorationSteampunkRetroShooterGothicPvEDarkLovecraftianResource ManagementPhysicsMystery

Shared

Early AccessFirst-PersonSingleplayerAction

Only Wallpaper Engine

MatureUtilitiesAnimeSoftwareDesign & IllustrationAnimation & ModelingNSFWIndieMemesCuteFunnyPhoto 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

293K to 683K

units (median: 488K)

$3.3M to $7.8M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

293Kmedian683K

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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