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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!

Utilities Anime Software Design & Illustration Animation & Modeling
Players now
114,871
Recorded peak
135,103
24-hour change
+9.09%
Steam reviews
97.5% positive
955,866 reviews · via SteamSpy

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Wallpaper Engine enables you to use live wallpapers on your Windows desktop. Various types of animated wallpapers are supported, including 3D and 2D animations, websites, videos and even certain applications. Choose an existing wallpaper or create your own and share it on the Steam Workshop! In addition to that, you can use the free Wallpaper Engine companion app for Android to transfer your favorite wallpapers to your Android mobile device and take your live wallpapers on the go.

NEW: Use the free Android companion app to transfer your favorite wallpapers to your Android mobile device.



  • Bring your desktop wallpapers alive with realtime graphics, videos, applications or websites.
  • Use animated screensavers while you are away from your computer.
  • Personalize animated wallpapers with your favorite colors.
  • Use interactive wallpapers that can be controlled with your mouse.
  • Many aspect ratios and native resolutions supported including 16:9, 21:9, 16:10, 4:3.
  • Multi monitor environments are supported.
  • Wallpapers will pause while playing games to save performance.
  • Create your own animated wallpapers in the Wallpaper Engine Editor.
  • Animate new live wallpapers from basic images or import HTML or video files for the wallpaper.
  • Use the Steam Workshop to share and download wallpapers for free.
  • Wallpaper Engine can be used at the same time as any other Steam game or application.
  • Supported video formats: mp4, WebM, avi, m4v, mov, wmv (for local files, Workshop only allows mp4).
  • Use the free Android companion app to take your favorite scene and video wallpapers on the go.
  • Support for Razer Chroma and Corsair iCUE.



Wallpaper Engine aims to deliver an entertaining experience while using as few system resources as possible. You can choose to automatically pause or completely stop the wallpaper while using another application or playing fullscreen (including borderless windowed mode) to not distract or hinder you while playing a game or working. Many options to tweak quality and performance allow you to make Wallpaper Engine fit your computer perfectly. As a general rule of thumb, 3D, 2D and video based wallpapers will perform best, while websites and applications will require more resources from your system. Having a dedicated GPU is highly recommended, but not required.

Choose from over a million free wallpapers from the Steam Workshop with new wallpapers being uploaded every day! Can't find a wallpaper that fits your mood? Let your imagination go wild by using the Wallpaper Engine Editor to create your own animated wallpapers from images, videos, websites or applications. A large selection of presets and effects allow you to animate your own images and share them on the Steam Workshop or to just use them for yourself.

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Wallpaper Engine 2.8.42 - Removal of Application Wallpapers from the Workshop Wallpaper Engine 2.8 - Dynamic Model Generation & Text Rendering Improvements Wallpaper Engine 2.7 - Particle Editor Updates, User Shortcuts & Image Filters
System requirements Windows

Windows

Minimum

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.

Recommended

Recommended:
  • OS: Windows 10, Windows 11
  • Processor: 2.0 GHz Intel i7 or equivalent
  • Memory: 2048 MB RAM
  • Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660, AMD HD7870, 2 GB VRAM or above
  • DirectX: Version 11
  • Storage: 1024 MB available space
  • Additional Notes: Mobile App requires Android 10 or newer
Game details Languages, features & support
Publisher
Wallpaper Engine Team
Brazilian rating
l
Steam Germany rating
0
Achievements
17
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, Arabic, Ukrainian, Indonesian, Persian
Compatibility & accessibility Steam Deck, controllers & access features

Can I Play This?

Steam declarations and Valve's Steam Deck compatibility result. Missing data is shown as unknown, never unsupported.

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Native Steam builds
Windows: supported
macOS: not-listed
Linux: not-listed
Steam Deck
unsupported
Valve compatibility test
Input
Controller support: unknown
Structured language support (23)
LanguageInterfaceFull audioSubtitles
EnglishYesNoNo
GermanYesNoNo
Simplified ChineseYesNoNo
PolishYesNoNo
Portuguese - BrazilYesNoNo
FrenchYesNoNo
ItalianYesNoNo
Spanish - SpainYesNoNo
FinnishYesNoNo
JapaneseYesNoNo
KoreanYesNoNo
SwedishYesNoNo
ThaiYesNoNo
Traditional ChineseYesNoNo
TurkishYesNoNo
Portuguese - PortugalYesNoNo
RussianYesNoNo
DanishYesNoNo
CzechYesNoNo
ArabicYesNoNo
UkrainianYesNoNo
IndonesianYesNoNo
PersianYesNoNo

Third-party requirements shown by Steam

Requires agreement to a 3rd-party EULA Wallpaper Engine EULA
Steam Store app details stale · checked 2026-09-30 Steam store page fresh · checked 2026-10-27 PCGamingWiki technical notes External link only; SteamIQHQ does not ingest PCGamingWiki content.
Achievement progress Rarity & completion patterns

Achievement Difficulty

Global unlock percentages are not exact completion or retention metrics.

Steam source
Achievements measured
17
Hunter score
61.3 / 100
SteamIQHQ inference from rarity and count
Progression analysis
Achievement rarity is available, but milestone order is not defensible.

Rarest achievements

Press any key 1%
The internet on a disk 1%
Video makers 2%
High aspirations 2.3%
Working with 3D models 3.7%

Difficulty distribution

Ultra rare (<1%)0
Very rare (1–5%)6
Rare (5–20%)6
Uncommon (20–50%)2
Common (50%+)3
Observed Nov 13, 2026 07:52 UTC · fresh
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Game Insights

Player Health

Healthy — 73.5K daily average.

Stable player base with low churn risk.

▬ +2% trend

Update Momentum

Infrequent Updates — 0 patches in last 30 days.

2 patches and 2 news items in last 180 days. Latest patch effect size: 0.00.

▼ No recent patches

Genre Benchmarks

Player Count Top 29%
Growth Rate Top 0%
Value Ratio Top 0%

Early Access Active

Time in EA
2919 days
Updates
40
Current Players
50,122

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Update Timeline

Steam News observations with inferred categories. CCU and review comparisons are associations, not proof of causation.

Source: Steam News
Freshness: fresh
Observed Nov 14, 2026 04:32 UTC
Meaningful updates
2
Last 365 days
Last meaningful update
137 days ago
Median cadence
Insufficient data
At least four meaningful updates in the 365-day window are required.

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. [b]While this sounds drastic, it affects merely 0.5% of all wallpapers[/b] with actual us…

Jun 29, 2026 at 20:30 UTC Community Announcements By Tim medium update proxy (inferred) External source
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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 soon start seeing on new wallpapers. [h2]Switch to 64-bit[/h2] We have been perf…

May 28, 2026 at 14:30 UTC Community Announcements By Tim large update proxy (inferred) External source
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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 introduces a new concept of [i][b]user shortcuts[/b][/i], which allow wallpaper creat…

Sep 04, 2025 at 15:10 UTC Community Announcements By Tim large update proxy (inferred) External source
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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. [h2]Clipping Masks for Puppet Warp Animations[/h2] Clipping masks are a useful tool to implement certain a…

Feb 10, 2025 at 18:15 UTC Community Announcements By Tim large update proxy (inferred) External source
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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 desktop experience on Windows 11, we have upgraded many parts of the app for bette…

May 30, 2024 at 13:22 UTC Community Announcements By Tim large update proxy (inferred) External source
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Hey everyone, Wallpaper Engine 2.4 largely builds on top of the new 3D features we have added with the previous update but also improves on the existing 2D wallpaper feature set. [h2]New 3D Features[/h2][h3]Real-time Shadows[/h3] As an extension to the new lighting features we ha…

Feb 15, 2024 at 20:42 UTC Community Announcements By Tim large update proxy (inferred) External source
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Hey everyone, Wallpaper Engine 2.3 completely overhauls support for 3D wallpapers, improves real-time lighting with additional light types and adds a new hierarchy and attachment system. [h2]New 3D Model Features[/h2] [h3]Model Editor[/h3] We are introducing a brand new model edi…

Sep 28, 2023 at 16:50 UTC Community Announcements By Tim large update proxy (inferred) External source
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Hey everyone, today we are releasing Wallpaper Engine 2.2 which comes with new editor effects, support for dynamic album covers and song data in wallpapers and a large set of improvements throughout the app and the wallpaper editor. [h2]Media & Album Cover Integration[/h2] A long…

Oct 07, 2022 at 16:12 UTC Community Announcements By Tim large update proxy (inferred) External source
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Hello everyone, today we're introducing Wallpaper Engine 2.1 for Windows and Android with a wide range of new features, overall improvements and bug fixes. We will walk you through some of the most impactful new features in this update. [h2]User Texture Imports[/h2] Another highl…

Jun 04, 2022 at 13:01 UTC Community Announcements By Tim large update proxy (inferred) External source
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Hey everyone, today we are releasing a new update for the Windows & Android version of Wallpaper Engine. The updates mainly add some new features that we did not finish for the initial release of the Android app, and fixes issues that were reported to us over the last few weeks.…

Jan 27, 2022 at 16:23 UTC Community Announcements By Tim large update proxy (inferred) External source
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Frequently Asked Questions

How many people play Wallpaper Engine?
Healthy — 73.5K daily average. Stable player base with low churn risk.
Is Wallpaper Engine still getting updates?
Infrequent Updates — 0 patches in last 30 days. 2 patches and 2 news items in last 180 days. Latest patch effect size: 0.00.
How many players are currently playing Wallpaper Engine?
114.9K players are currently in-game on Steam.
What is the recorded Steam price for Wallpaper Engine?
The last observed Steam price for Wallpaper Engine is $4.99. Check Steam for current pricing and availability.
What genre is Wallpaper Engine?
Wallpaper Engine is a Casual, Indie, Animation & Modeling, Design & Illustration, Photo Editing, Utilities game.
Who developed Wallpaper Engine?
Wallpaper Engine was developed by Wallpaper Engine Team and published by Wallpaper Engine Team.
What platforms does Wallpaper Engine support?
Available on Steam for Windows.

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