Hotline Miami vs Wallpaper Engine
Reviews on Steam
Wallpaper Engine
8.8× more reviews
Critical reception
Wallpaper Engine
1pp gap
Cheaper at launch
Wallpaper Engine
$5.00 cheaper
Estimated sales (median)
Wallpaper Engine
4.1× more units (white-box estimate)
More recent
Wallpaper Engine
6 years apart
Hotline Miami
2012 · Action
Dennaton Games · Devolver Digital
- Reviews
- 104,245
- Positive
- 97%
- Launch price
- $9.99
- Engine
- n/a
- Sales (median)
- 8.9M
- Net rev
- $50.6M
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 Hotline Miami, 17 only on Wallpaper Engine.
Only Hotline Miami
Great SoundtrackViolentPixel GraphicsTop-DownGore1980sFast-PacedRetroPsychedelicDifficultSurreal2DShooterTop-Down ShooterAtmosphericAddictiveMusic
Shared
ActionIndieSingleplayer
Only Wallpaper Engine
MatureUtilitiesAnimeSoftwareDesign & IllustrationAnimation & ModelingFirst-PersonNSFWMemesCuteFunnyEarly 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
vv1.05.3M to 12.4M
units (median: 8.9M)
≈ $30.3M to $70.8M 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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