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No Man's Sky vs Wallpaper Engine

Reviews on Steam

Wallpaper Engine

3.0× more reviews

Critical reception

Wallpaper Engine

13.1pp gap

Cheaper at launch

Wallpaper Engine

$55.00 cheaper

Estimated sales (median)

Wallpaper Engine

1.3× more units (white-box estimate)

More recent

Wallpaper Engine

2 years apart

A

No Man's Sky

2016 · Action

Hello Games · Hello Games

Reviews
307,436
Positive
85%
Launch price
$59.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
29.2M
Net rev
$1000.8M
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

25% shared , 5 shared tags, 15 only on No Man's Sky, 15 only on Wallpaper Engine.

Only No Man's Sky

Open WorldOpen World Survival CraftSpaceExplorationSci-fiSurvivalProcedural GenerationAdventureMultiplayerAtmosphericCraftingSpace SimSimulationFPSVR

Shared

First-PersonSandboxSingleplayerIndieAction

Only Wallpaper Engine

MatureUtilitiesAnimeSoftwareDesign & IllustrationAnimation & ModelingNSFWMemesCuteFunnyEarly AccessPhoto 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

17.5M to 40.9M

units (median: 29.2M)

≈ $600.5M to $1401.1M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

17.5Mmedian40.9M

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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