The Headliners vs Wallpaper Engine
Reviews on Steam
Wallpaper Engine
90.4× more reviews
Critical reception
Wallpaper Engine
11.7pp gap
Cheaper at launch
Wallpaper Engine
$3.00 cheaper
Estimated sales (median)
Wallpaper Engine
80.4× more units (white-box estimate)
More recent
The Headliners
7 years apart
The Headliners
2025 · Action
- Reviews
- 10,118
- Positive
- 86%
- Launch price
- $7.99
- Engine
- n/a
- Sales (median)
- 455K
- Net rev
- $2.1M
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
30% shared , 6 shared tags, 14 only on The Headliners, 14 only on Wallpaper Engine.
Only The Headliners
Online Co-OpCo-opMultiplayerAction-AdventureTeam-BasedGoreDestructionAtmosphericDarkViolentSouls-likeSurvival HorrorPsychological HorrorSexual Content
Shared
HorrorFunnyActionIndieFirst-PersonSingleplayer
Only Wallpaper Engine
MatureUtilitiesAnimeSoftwareDesign & IllustrationAnimation & ModelingNSFWMemesCuteEarly 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
vv1.0273K to 637K
units (median: 455K)
≈ $1.2M to $2.9M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
Sales estimate
vv1.022.0M to 51.2M
units (median: 36.6M)
≈ $62.6M to $146.0M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
How comparison pages work
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