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Necesse vs Wallpaper Engine

Reviews on Steam

Wallpaper Engine

39.5× more reviews

Critical reception

Wallpaper Engine

4.9pp gap

Cheaper at launch

Wallpaper Engine

$10.00 cheaper

Estimated sales (median)

Wallpaper Engine

31.6× more units (white-box estimate)

More recent

Necesse

7 years apart

A

Necesse

2025 · Action

Fair Games ApS · Fair Games ApS

Reviews
23,154
Positive
93%
Launch price
$14.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
1.2M
Net rev
$9.9M
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

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

Only Necesse

Open World Survival CraftMultiplayerOpen WorldPixel GraphicsAdventureSurvivalCraftingRPGCo-opBuildingExplorationOnline Co-OpAutomation2DAtmosphericBase-Building

Shared

SandboxIndieEarly AccessAction

Only Wallpaper Engine

MatureUtilitiesAnimeSoftwareDesign & IllustrationAnimation & ModelingFirst-PersonNSFWMemesCuteSingleplayerFunnyPhoto EditingHorrorGamingGame 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

695K to 1.6M

units (median: 1.2M)

$5.9M to $13.9M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

695Kmedian1.6M

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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