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Onward vs Wallpaper Engine

Reviews on Steam

Wallpaper Engine

98.3× more reviews

Critical reception

Wallpaper Engine

29.7pp gap

Cheaper at launch

Wallpaper Engine

$20.00 cheaper

Estimated sales (median)

Wallpaper Engine

112.4× more units (white-box estimate)

More recent

Onward

7 years apart

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Onward

2025 · Action

Downpour Interactive · Downpour Interactive

Reviews
9,304
Positive
68%
Launch price
$24.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
326K
Net rev
$4.6M
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

25% shared , 5 shared tags, 15 only on Onward, 15 only on Wallpaper Engine.

Only Onward

VRShooterFPSMilitaryRealisticMultiplayerSimulationViolentTacticalWarOnline Co-OpPvPe-sportsModernClass-Based

Shared

ActionIndieFirst-PersonSingleplayerEarly Access

Only Wallpaper Engine

MatureUtilitiesAnimeSoftwareDesign & IllustrationAnimation & ModelingNSFWMemesCuteFunnyPhoto 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

195K to 456K

units (median: 326K)

≈ $2.8M to $6.5M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

195Kmedian456K

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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