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The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth vs Wallpaper Engine

Reviews on Steam

Wallpaper Engine

113.4× more reviews

Critical reception

Wallpaper Engine

4.6pp gap

Cheaper at launch

Wallpaper Engine

$6.00 cheaper

Estimated sales (median)

Wallpaper Engine

50.4× more units (white-box estimate)

More recent

Wallpaper Engine

3 years apart

A

The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth

2015 · Action

Nicalis, Inc. · self-published

Reviews
8,067
Positive
93%
Launch price
$10.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
726K
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

20% shared , 4 shared tags, 16 only on The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth, 16 only on Wallpaper Engine.

Only The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth

Replay ValueDifficultRogue-likeGreat SoundtrackDungeon CrawlerDarkPixel GraphicsAdventureGoreSurvivalRogue-liteCo-op2DAtmosphericProcedural GenerationPsychological Horror

Shared

IndieSingleplayerActionHorror

Only Wallpaper Engine

MatureUtilitiesAnimeSoftwareDesign & IllustrationAnimation & ModelingFirst-PersonNSFWMemesCuteFunnyEarly AccessPhoto EditingSandboxGamingGame 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

436K to 1.0M

units (median: 726K)

$2.7M to $6.4M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

436Kmedian1.0M

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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