News Tower vs Wallpaper Engine
Reviews on Steam
Wallpaper Engine
210.5× more reviews
Critical reception
Wallpaper Engine
3.9pp gap
Cheaper at launch
Wallpaper Engine
$20.00 cheaper
Estimated sales (median)
Wallpaper Engine
153.1× more units (white-box estimate)
More recent
News Tower
7 years apart
News Tower
2025 · Simulation
Sparrow Night · Twin Sails Interactive
- Reviews
- 4,346
- Positive
- 94%
- Launch price
- $24.99
- Engine
- n/a
- Sales (median)
- 239K
- Net rev
- $3.4M
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 News Tower, 16 only on Wallpaper Engine.
Only News Tower
ManagementSimulationStrategy2DResource ManagementEconomyBuildingTime ManagementCapitalismTacticalChoices MatterHistoricalCraftingComedyAtmosphericAmerica
Shared
SandboxIndieSingleplayerEarly Access
Only Wallpaper Engine
MatureUtilitiesAnimeSoftwareDesign & IllustrationAnimation & ModelingFirst-PersonNSFWMemesCuteActionFunnyPhoto 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
vv1.0143K to 335K
units (median: 239K)
≈ $2.0M to $4.8M 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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