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POOLS vs Wallpaper Engine

Reviews on Steam

Wallpaper Engine

146.1× more reviews

Critical reception

Wallpaper Engine

2.9pp gap

Cheaper at launch

Wallpaper Engine

$4.80 cheaper

Estimated sales (median)

Wallpaper Engine

89.9× more units (white-box estimate)

More recent

POOLS

6 years apart

A

POOLS

2024 · Adventure

Tensori · Tensori

Reviews
6,261
Positive
95%
Launch price
$9.79
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
407K
Net rev
$2.3M
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

15% shared , 3 shared tags, 17 only on POOLS, 17 only on Wallpaper Engine.

Only POOLS

Psychological HorrorWalking SimulatorAtmosphericRealisticExplorationImmersiveSurrealRelaxingAdventureNonlinearMinimalist3DUnderwaterDarkEscape RoomMultiplayerMystery

Shared

First-PersonSingleplayerIndie

Only Wallpaper Engine

MatureUtilitiesAnimeSoftwareDesign & IllustrationAnimation & ModelingNSFWMemesCuteActionFunnyEarly 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

vv1.0

244K to 570K

units (median: 407K)

≈ $1.4M to $3.2M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

244Kmedian570K

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

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