Game overview
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!
- 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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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.Media gallery 13 screenshots · 0 videos
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All news on Steam ↗System requirements Windows
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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
- Website
- Official website ↗
- Support
- [email protected] Support site ↗
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.
Structured language support (23)
| Language | Interface | Full audio | Subtitles |
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| English | Yes | No | No |
| German | Yes | No | No |
| Simplified Chinese | Yes | No | No |
| Polish | Yes | No | No |
| Portuguese - Brazil | Yes | No | No |
| French | Yes | No | No |
| Italian | Yes | No | No |
| Spanish - Spain | Yes | No | No |
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| Traditional Chinese | Yes | No | No |
| Turkish | Yes | No | No |
| Portuguese - Portugal | Yes | No | No |
| Russian | Yes | No | No |
| Danish | Yes | No | No |
| Czech | Yes | No | No |
| Arabic | Yes | No | No |
| Ukrainian | Yes | No | No |
| Indonesian | Yes | No | No |
| Persian | Yes | No | No |
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Player Health
Stable player base with low churn risk.
Update Momentum
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Update Timeline
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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