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This War of Mine vs Wallpaper Engine

Reviews on Steam

Wallpaper Engine

10.3× more reviews

Critical reception

Wallpaper Engine

4.2pp gap

Cheaper at launch

Wallpaper Engine

$15.00 cheaper

Estimated sales (median)

Wallpaper Engine

4.1× more units (white-box estimate)

More recent

Wallpaper Engine

4 years apart

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This War of Mine

2014 · Adventure

11 bit studios · 11 bit studios

Reviews
88,714
Positive
94%
Launch price
$19.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
8.9M
Net rev
$101.3M
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

10% shared , 2 shared tags, 18 only on This War of Mine, 18 only on Wallpaper Engine.

Only This War of Mine

SurvivalWarAtmosphericStrategyChoices MatterSimulationCraftingBase-BuildingResource ManagementPost-apocalypticManagementStory RichEmotionalRealistic2.5DPsychologicalDramaStealth

Shared

SingleplayerIndie

Only Wallpaper Engine

MatureUtilitiesAnimeSoftwareDesign & IllustrationAnimation & ModelingFirst-PersonNSFWMemesCuteActionFunnyEarly 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

5.3M to 12.4M

units (median: 8.9M)

≈ $60.8M to $141.8M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

5.3Mmedian12.4M

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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