How many copies has Wallpaper Engine sold?

indielist estimates Wallpaper Engine has sold between 22,390,872 and 52,245,368 units (median 37,318,120), derived from its 932,953 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who published Wallpaper Engine?

Wallpaper Engine was published by Wallpaper Engine Team, developed by Wallpaper Engine Team. See Wallpaper Engine Team's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was Wallpaper Engine released?

Wallpaper Engine was released in 2018.

How many reviews does Wallpaper Engine have on Steam?

Wallpaper Engine has 932,953 Steam reviews, of which 98% are positive.

Is Wallpaper Engine worth playing?

Steam players rate Wallpaper Engine 98% positive across 932,953 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

Wallpaper Engine

Nov 16, 2018 Casual $4.99

Developer Wallpaper Engine Team Publisher Wallpaper Engine Team

Profile updated May 2026

Wallpaper Engine, released in 2018, allows users to create and share animated wallpapers. This casual title has garnered 910,359 positive reviews on Steam. Its tags include Animation & Modeling and Design & Illustration.

Wallpaper Engine is a 2018 Casual game developed by Wallpaper Engine Team and published by Wallpaper Engine Team. On Steam it has gathered 932,953 player reviews, 98% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Casual category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $5. The pairing of developer Wallpaper Engine Team with publisher Wallpaper Engine Team is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Casual projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 22.4 million to 52.2 million units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Wallpaper Engine can be compared against similar Casual titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

932,953

Positive

98%

Steam appid

431960

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

95,858

Fresh snapshot · 2026-07-24 12:00 UTC · 24h peak 107,562

Sales estimate

v1.0

22.4M to 52.2M

units (median: 37.3M)

≈ $63.8M to $148.9M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

22.4M median 52.2M

+ How is this calculated?

932,953 reviews × NB(40) = 37,318,120 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2018	+15
price_$5	-20
positive_98%	+10
genre_Casual	-15
final NB	40

Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].

Methodology & limitations

Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it, especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.

indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Wallpaper Engine at roughly 22.4 million to 52.2 million copies, with a median around 37.3 million, derived from its 932,953 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $106.4M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.

Price history

54 observed days · window low $3.99

Across 54 observed UTC days from 2026-05-31 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $3.99 to $4.99. The tracked-window low was $3.99 on 2026-06-20.

Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.

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Platforms

windows

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Wallpaper Engine sold?: indielist estimates Wallpaper Engine has sold between 22,390,872 and 52,245,368 units (median 37,318,120), derived from its 932,953 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Wallpaper Engine?: Wallpaper Engine was developed by Wallpaper Engine Team and published by Wallpaper Engine Team.
Who published Wallpaper Engine?: Wallpaper Engine was published by Wallpaper Engine Team, developed by Wallpaper Engine Team. See Wallpaper Engine Team's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Wallpaper Engine released?: Wallpaper Engine was released in 2018.
How many reviews does Wallpaper Engine have on Steam?: Wallpaper Engine has 932,953 Steam reviews, of which 98% are positive.
Is Wallpaper Engine worth playing?: Steam players rate Wallpaper Engine 98% positive across 932,953 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

Players looking for games like Wallpaper Engine can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Casual titles such as Crosshair X, Krita, Goat Simulator, NEKOPARA Vol. 1, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Wallpaper Engine Team's other releases and Wallpaper Engine Team's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Wallpaper Engine sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Wallpaper Engine page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Casual game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.

Matched from shared Steam tags and primary genre. Review count breaks ties; it is not a personal recommendation score.