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Wallpaper Engine
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!
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
What reviewers agree on
39 of the 100 reviews raise this.
“Insanely Customizable, Does exactly what You think but more, theres Tons of options Too, Awesome.”
“100 hours on Wallpaper Engine and I’ve achieved peak productivity (my PC looks insane and I’ve done absolutely nothing). This isn’t an app, it’s a rabbit hole. You open it thinking “I’ll grab a clean wallpaper” and 2…”
“Amazing for easily getting wallpapers from steam workshop, and also simple to get wallpaper from steam to android app for phone too.”
30 of the 100 reviews raise this.
“Its amazing not expensive for everything it offers, now I am addicted to look for cool wallpapers.”
“Probably the best, and for me only popular option for wallpapers. Very easily made programme and i can definitely say that its worth it.”
“Amazing wallpaper collections and customizability, literally worth the money”
25 of the 100 reviews raise this.
“Recently downloaded after some scepticism regarding the price, my specs and if it's worth getting it, Surprisingly enough it runs pretty smoothly, I have a pretty mediocre Laptop yet the majority of wallpapers run…”
“Easy to use, fairly optimized. Great product overall.”
“runs great looks cool, very customisable, goated”
19 of the 100 reviews raise this.
“Amazing, with over 1,000,000 different background options because of steam workshop. You can easily make your own scenic wallpaper using an image. This isn't too much of an issue, but sometimes it takes a while to start…”
“Amazing wallpaper app that gives you access to hundreds of thousands of amazing extremely high quality wallpapers in every format. Video, GIF, Still image they got it all. This app also gives you the tools and ability…”
“SOO GOOD! So many wallpapers to choose from, not only animes. Even niche game character gets a lot of artwork. Don't worry about performance, you can set it to turn off when an app is focused, so it drops no real FPS.…”
16 of the 100 reviews raise this.
“Recently downloaded after some scepticism regarding the price, my specs and if it's worth getting it, Surprisingly enough it runs pretty smoothly, I have a pretty mediocre Laptop yet the majority of wallpapers run…”
“decreases performance on games if settings not modified, best wallpapers + moving wallpapers”
“Great performance. Nice community. Quality content.”
10 of the 100 reviews raise this · 10 of them still recommend the game.
“100 hours on Wallpaper Engine and I’ve achieved peak productivity (my PC looks insane and I’ve done absolutely nothing). This isn’t an app, it’s a rabbit hole. You open it thinking “I’ll grab a clean wallpaper” and 2…”
“decreases performance on games if settings not modified, best wallpapers + moving wallpapers”
“Amazing, with over 1,000,000 different background options because of steam workshop. You can easily make your own scenic wallpaper using an image. This isn't too much of an issue, but sometimes it takes a while to start…”
8 of the 100 reviews raise this · 7 of them still recommend the game.
“devs are doing absolutely nothing to mitigate the massive influx of ai generated art. wallpaper engine is going to ♥♥♥♥”
“It's good, does what it needs to do as a wallpaper. Theres too much porn though. what is wrong with people”
“its really hard looking through all the girls getting pounded just to find a good wallpaper”
4 of the 100 reviews raise this · 4 of them still recommend the game.
“every wallpaper I choose looks amazing for 10 seconds then I spend 40 minutes trying to find the “perfect one” like it’s a life decision”
“i love wallpaper engine but if there's one thing i ABSOLUTELY HATE about it, its the sheer ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ of Ai wallpapers. and no, im not just saying this purely because i hate ai. i just think it looks horrible. i wish…”
“It's a pretty good utility app for wallpapers. There's too much anime stuff on the workshop. You can't filter it out of results. I like using wallpaper engine, but there are free alternatives that allow even more…”
3 of the 100 reviews raise this · 2 of them still recommend the game.
“devs are doing absolutely nothing to mitigate the massive influx of ai generated art. wallpaper engine is going to ♥♥♥♥”
“Works great on Windows, tons of wallpapers. I just switched to Linux and Im really missing this tool. Please someone make something as good as this for KDE.”
“This is good if you need to add a bit more looks to your setup. But on Arch or any distro for that matter you need to make it so you got KDE plasma and a plugin to make it work. It is not that hard it is just annoying…”
Counted across 100 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 98.0% positive rating · as of 2026-05-20
“Would recommend, great software for amazing animated wallpapers! Would just like a filter for AI, I don't wanna see that slop in a software I paid for :/, it really ruins the process of picking out wallpapers I like”
— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs played“Wall paper engine offers what it says and does exactly what you think it does. No crappy subscription based service, just wallpapers”
— a player, Steam review · 8 hrs played“this app is so good that i left everything else, i even started watching anime and youtube on it now watching reddit stories with minecraft parkour on the sides 10/10”
— a player, Steam review · 51 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-24 00:13 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-07-25.
Price tracking
US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-07-11. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.
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Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Wallpaper Engine 2.8.42 - Removal of Application Wallpapers from the Workshop
Hey everyone, this update introduces a security change to Wallpaper Engine. In the next week, we will be permanently removing the "Application" wallpaper type from the public Steam Workshop. While thi
Wallpaper Engine 2.8 - Dynamic Model Generation & Text Rendering Improvements
While Wallpaper Engine 2.8 was primarily planned as a maintenance release with various bug fixes and improvements under the hood, we also found the time to add some cool new features which you should
Wallpaper Engine 2.7 - Particle Editor Updates, User Shortcuts & Image Filters
With the release of Wallpaper Engine 2.7, we are introducing a large number of improvements and new features for particle systems and to the particle editor itself. Additionally, the update also intro
Wallpaper Engine 2.6 - New Effects, Clipping Masks, Rope Physics & Bug Fixes
Hey everyone, Wallpaper Engine 2.6 comes with several new features for the wallpaper editor, the update also fixes some bugs and improves compatibility with Windows 11 24H2. Clipping Masks for Puppet
Wallpaper Engine 2.5 - Playlist Transitions & Editor Update / Retiring Windows 7
Wallpaper Engine 2.5 adds new features for end-users and content creators alike. The update also includes a lot of bug fixes and overall maintenance work. In anticipation of upcoming changes to the de
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.
| Genres | Casual, Indie, Animation & Modeling, Design & Illustration, Photo Editing, Utilities |
| Player tags | Mature · Utilities · Anime · Software · Design & Illustration · Animation & Modeling · First-Person · NSFW · Indie · Memes · Cute · Action (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Steam Achievements · Steam Trading Cards · Steam Workshop · Steam Workshop · Includes level editor |
| Languages | English, German, Simplified Chinese, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, French, Italian, Spanish - Spain, Finnish, Japanese, Korean, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Portuguese - Portugal, Russian, Danish, Czech, A… |
| Achievements | 17 |
| Estimated owners | 20,000,000 – 50,000,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | https://www.wallpaperengine.io |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS: Windows 10, Windows 11 Processor: 1.66 GHz Intel i5 or equivalent Memory: 1024 MB RAM Graphics: HD Graphics 4000 or above DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 512 MB available space Additional Notes: Windows N versions require the 'Media Feature Pack' from Microsoft.