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Wallpaper Engine

Wallpaper Engine Team · 2018-11-16

Steam

CasualIndieAnimation & ModelingDesign & IllustrationPhoto EditingUtilities

Use stunning live wallpapers on your desktop. Animate your own images to create new wallpapers or import videos/websites and share them on the Steam Workshop!

Wallpaper Engine is a Casual, Indie, Animation & Modeling and Design & Illustration game released in 2018, priced at $4.99, with an estimated 20,000,000 .. 50,000,000 owners and an Overwhelmingly Positive review sentiment (98% of 1008498 reviews).

43,700
playing now
98%
positive of 1.0M reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000,000–50,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
bronze
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Unsupported
$4.99
steam price (US)

43,700 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 21:00 UTC (census sample)

Wallpaper Engine is an application for Windows with a companion app on Android which allows users to use and create animated and interactive wallpapers, similar to the defunct Windows DreamScene. Wallpapers are shared through the Steam Workshop functionality as user-created downloadable content. It features its own rendering engine and provides a wallpaper editor, allowing for the creation of 2D and 3D wallpapers, including a particle system editor and a fork of JavaScript called SceneScript for additional wallpaper logic. It also supports using video files, audio files, webpages and some 3D applications as wallpapers.

Trailer

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Health check

Thriving
  • · 43,700 players in-game right now — a Steam top-100 title.
  • · 69,918 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~8,740/week).
  • · Review velocity down 1% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 1% of 29,032 Casual games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-17

Tier history: healthy→thriving (Sep 17), thriving→healthy (Sep 16), healthy→thriving (Sep 16), thriving→healthy (Sep 16)

Estimated sales: 26M–61M copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,022,355 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $3.59 at Steam (2021-02-08)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 13 of 27 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
18k18k20182026Week of 2018-03-01: 1,473 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 29 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 1,350 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 38 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 1,324 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 45 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 1,480 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 36 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 1,422 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 41 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 1,317 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 48 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 1,134 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 27 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 1,035 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 31 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 1,587 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 48 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 1,757 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 60 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 1,773 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 48 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 1,587 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 40 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 1,491 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 52 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 1,358 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 46 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 1,208 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 37 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 9,572 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 62 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 9,939 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 72 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 1,480 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 76 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 1,354 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 44 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 2,424 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 33 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 9,828 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 82 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 9,939 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 93 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 8,964 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 106 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 10,260 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 122 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 13,369 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 131 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 11,819 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 162 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 12,214 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 176 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 12,082 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 180 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 13,372 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 237 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 12,571 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 279 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 11,577 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 184 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 11,016 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 261 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 13,159 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 263 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 16,938 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 342 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 17,514 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 401 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 14,949 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 460 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 14,759 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 340 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 12,231 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 275 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 12,083 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 347 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 13,361 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 476 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 12,893 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 471 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 12,792 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 360 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 12,571 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 297 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 11,964 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 253 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 14,534 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 260 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 15,793 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 247 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 13,766 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 245 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 11,785 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 206 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 11,541 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 200 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 10,133 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 177 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 10,100 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 180 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 11,421 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 207 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 11,473 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 205 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 11,685 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 220 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 10,694 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 192 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 11,950 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 275 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 14,427 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 233 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 15,069 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 239 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 14,685 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 253 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 11,224 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 208 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 11,293 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 202 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 9,060 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 279 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 8,243 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 206 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 10,266 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 222 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 12,291 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 289 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 12,369 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 407 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 11,074 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 284 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 11,234 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 269 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 10,230 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 236 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 10,928 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 285 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 11,356 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 281 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 11,608 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 254 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 11,720 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 274 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 9,006 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 235 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 9,080 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 213 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 10,689 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 272 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 11,357 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 266 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 11,532 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 294 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 10,351 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 274 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 9,395 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 256 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 9,083 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 239 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 10,436 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 277 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 10,713 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 254 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 9,468 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 225 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 9,880 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 266 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 7,668 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 184 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 7,451 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 180 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 8,540 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 222 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 9,959 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 246 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 9,017 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 215 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 7,582 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 195 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 8,503 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 191 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 7,866 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 177 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 8,385 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 208 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 8,799 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 218 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 7,335 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 167 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 8,438 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 199 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 6,994 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 166 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 7,548 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 220 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 10,368 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 3,479 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 8,578 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1,137 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 7,954 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 362 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 6,689 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 284 negativeWeek of 2026-10-01: 2,848 positiveWeek of 2026-10-01: 103 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

103k38k2026-09-14 21:00 — 41,165 players2026-09-15 21:00 — 39,423 players2026-09-17 11:00 — 81,311 players2026-09-18 11:00 — 86,112 players2026-09-19 11:00 — 94,593 players2026-09-20 11:00 — 89,535 players2026-09-21 11:00 — 83,094 players2026-09-22 11:00 — 81,173 players2026-09-23 11:00 — 79,270 players2026-09-24 11:00 — 86,602 players2026-09-25 11:00 — 93,312 players2026-09-26 11:00 — 98,466 players2026-09-27 11:00 — 95,747 players2026-09-28 11:00 — 83,770 players2026-09-29 11:00 — 84,007 players2026-09-30 11:00 — 88,741 players2026-10-01 11:00 — 93,042 players2026-10-02 11:00 — 93,155 players2026-10-03 11:00 — 97,121 players2026-10-04 11:00 — 97,727 players2026-10-05 11:00 — 93,983 players2026-10-06 11:00 — 93,703 players2026-10-07 11:00 — 91,455 players2026-10-08 11:00 — 83,898 players2026-10-09 11:00 — 86,907 players2026-10-10 11:00 — 98,790 players2026-10-11 11:00 — 102,653 players2026-10-12 11:00 — 88,159 players2026-10-13 11:00 — 89,072 players2026-10-14 11:00 — 90,327 players2026-10-14 21:00 — 43,700 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
88k0Sep 2016Aug 2026Sep 2016 — avg 0 · peak 2Jan 2017 — avg 7,395 · peak 15,919May 2017 — avg 6,711 · peak 11,672Sep 2017 — avg 5,981 · peak 10,332Jan 2018 — avg 7,177 · peak 11,641May 2018 — avg 7,621 · peak 12,961Sep 2018 — avg 7,763 · peak 11,882Jan 2019 — avg 10,031 · peak 13,634May 2019 — avg 10,532 · peak 15,353Sep 2019 — avg 12,781 · peak 20,262Jan 2020 — avg 17,001 · peak 25,694May 2020 — avg 29,694 · peak 47,845Sep 2020 — avg 33,944 · peak 54,924Jan 2021 — avg 44,648 · peak 65,041May 2021 — avg 36,392 · peak 52,689Sep 2021 — avg 42,728 · peak 67,845Jan 2022 — avg 55,414 · peak 82,336May 2022 — avg 55,838 · peak 85,111Sep 2022 — avg 61,260 · peak 105,565Jan 2023 — avg 79,709 · peak 134,459May 2023 — avg 62,017 · peak 113,613Sep 2023 — avg 69,907 · peak 133,544Jan 2024 — avg 78,918 · peak 131,365May 2024 — avg 66,716 · peak 118,888Sep 2024 — avg 75,067 · peak 132,539Jan 2025 — avg 85,102 · peak 143,689May 2025 — avg 76,382 · peak 133,127Sep 2025 — avg 78,472 · peak 141,058Jan 2026 — avg 87,976 · peak 144,617May 2026 — avg 76,917 · peak 131,111Aug 2026 — avg 77,530 · peak 117,596
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Chart history

#4#42026-09-142026-10-142026-09-14 — #42026-09-15 — #42026-09-16 — #42026-09-17 — #42026-09-18 — #42026-09-19 — #42026-09-20 — #42026-09-21 — #42026-09-22 — #42026-09-23 — #42026-09-24 — #42026-09-25 — #42026-09-26 — #42026-09-27 — #42026-09-28 — #42026-09-29 — #42026-09-30 — #42026-10-01 — #42026-10-02 — #42026-10-03 — #42026-10-04 — #42026-10-05 — #42026-10-06 — #42026-10-07 — #42026-10-08 — #42026-10-09 — #42026-10-10 — #42026-10-11 — #42026-10-12 — #42026-10-13 — #42026-10-14 — #4
Best Steam most-played rank per day (census top-100 snapshots).
PositiveNegative
4774772026-09-152026-10-142026-09-15: 171 new positive2026-09-15: 7 new negative2026-09-16: 161 new positive2026-09-16: 4 new negative2026-09-17: 161 new positive2026-09-17: 6 new negative2026-09-18: 171 new positive2026-09-18: 11 new negative2026-09-19: 196 new positive2026-09-19: 6 new negative2026-09-20: 195 new positive2026-09-20: 3 new negative2026-09-21: 213 new positive2026-09-21: 6 new negative2026-09-22: 323 new positive2026-09-22: 20 new negative2026-09-23: 166 new positive2026-09-23: 3 new negative2026-09-24: 151 new positive2026-09-24: 5 new negative2026-09-25: 174 new positive2026-09-25: 8 new negative2026-09-26: 246 new positive2026-09-26: 9 new negative2026-09-27: 205 new positive2026-09-27: 8 new negative2026-09-28: 121 new positive2026-09-28: 8 new negative2026-09-29: 167 new positive2026-09-29: 5 new negative2026-09-30: 155 new positive2026-09-30: 5 new negative2026-10-01: 195 new positive2026-10-01: 12 new negative2026-10-02: 191 new positive2026-10-02: 5 new negative2026-10-03: 223 new positive2026-10-03: 4 new negative2026-10-04: 276 new positive2026-10-04: 12 new negative2026-10-05: 238 new positive2026-10-05: 3 new negative2026-10-06: 477 new positive2026-10-06: 16 new negative2026-10-07: 192 new positive2026-10-07: 9 new negative2026-10-08: 174 new positive2026-10-08: 8 new negative2026-10-09: 187 new positive2026-10-09: 4 new negative2026-10-10: 204 new positive2026-10-10: 10 new negative2026-10-11: 203 new positive2026-10-11: 8 new negative2026-10-12: 172 new positive2026-10-12: 9 new negative2026-10-13: 173 new positive2026-10-13: 7 new negative2026-10-14: 156 new positive2026-10-14: 7 new negative
New Steam reviews per day (census review snapshots). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$4.99$3.592016-10-112026-07-142016-10-11 — best price $3.992020-04-22 — best price $3.992021-02-15 — best price $3.992022-08-15 — best price $3.992025-01-06 — best price $4.992025-03-20 — best price $4.992025-05-09 — best price $3.992025-06-26 — best price $3.992025-07-11 — best price $4.992025-08-09 — best price $4.992025-09-27 — best price $4.992025-10-06 — best price $4.992025-10-27 — best price $3.992025-11-06 — best price $4.992025-11-21 — best price $3.992025-12-06 — best price $4.992025-12-18 — best price $3.992026-01-05 — best price $4.992026-02-16 — best price $3.992026-03-03 — best price $4.992026-03-18 — best price $3.992026-03-26 — best price $4.992026-04-17 — best price $3.992026-06-19 — best price $3.992026-07-09 — best price $4.992026-07-14 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

216312026-05-29 — 105 pageviews2026-06-02 — 101 pageviews2026-06-06 — 98 pageviews2026-06-10 — 92 pageviews2026-06-14 — 62 pageviews2026-06-18 — 135 pageviews2026-06-22 — 86 pageviews2026-06-26 — 189 pageviews2026-06-30 — 84 pageviews2026-07-04 — 199 pageviews2026-07-08 — 186 pageviews2026-07-12 — 145 pageviews2026-07-16 — 144 pageviews2026-07-20 — 142 pageviews2026-07-24 — 141 pageviews2026-07-28 — 158 pageviews2026-08-01 — 60 pageviews2026-08-05 — 39 pageviews2026-08-09 — 34 pageviews2026-08-13 — 35 pageviews2026-08-17 — 57 pageviews2026-08-21 — 47 pageviews2026-08-25 — 44 pageviews2026-08-29 — 69 pageviews2026-09-02 — 57 pageviews2026-09-06 — 43 pageviews2026-09-10 — 42 pageviews2026-09-14 — 57 pageviews2026-09-18 — 33 pageviews2026-09-22 — 45 pageviews2026-09-26 — 53 pageviews2026-09-30 — 31 pageviews2026-10-04 — 37 pageviews2026-10-07 — 56 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

17
achievements tracked
83.8%
earned "Trying something new"
6.1%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsSteam WorkshopSteam WorkshopIncludes level editor1 DLC

23 supported languages: English, German, Simplified Chinese, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, French, Italian, Spanish - Spain, Finnish, Japanese, Korean, Swedish…

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2021-11-26 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)296,7486%17

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

CuteNSFWAnimeFunnyIndieMemesActionMatureSoftwareUtilities

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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