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Root vs Wallpaper Engine

Reviews on Steam

Wallpaper Engine

171.9× more reviews

Critical reception

Wallpaper Engine

7.8pp gap

Cheaper at launch

Wallpaper Engine

$10.00 cheaper

Estimated sales (median)

Wallpaper Engine

91.7× more units (white-box estimate)

More recent

Root

2 years apart

A

Root

2020 · Indie

Dire Wolf · Dire Wolf

Reviews
5,323
Positive
90%
Launch price
$14.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
399K
Net rev
$3.4M
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 Root, 16 only on Wallpaper Engine.

Only Root

Board GameTabletopStrategyWarWargameTurn-Based StrategySimulationPvPMultiplayerTouch-FriendlyAsynchronous MultiplayerCard GamePuzzleSolitaireTop-DownCartoony

Shared

CuteIndieSingleplayerEarly Access

Only Wallpaper Engine

MatureUtilitiesAnimeSoftwareDesign & IllustrationAnimation & ModelingFirst-PersonNSFWMemesActionFunnyPhoto 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

240K to 559K

units (median: 399K)

≈ $2.1M to $4.8M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

240Kmedian559K

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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