Huge Workshop wallpaper library
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 positive reviews
“A huge variety of interactive and beautiful wallpapers made by the community! Very impressive!”
Steam review · 11 h played ↗
Wallpaper Engine
Worth buying? What 300 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 300 Steam reviews actually say.
Overwhelmingly PositiveOverwhelmingly Positive · 98%Wallpaper Engine Team2018Sandbox · Horror · Action
The verdict
Wallpaper Engine is a cheap, hugely popular animated-wallpaper tool with a giant Workshop. Skip it if you're on Linux, hate AI and NSFW clutter, or worry about malware and stability.
Great for
Windows users who want an animated, customized desktop and enjoy browsing community Workshop content
Main risk
Workshop full of AI/NSFW content, malware fears, and bugs or no Linux support
What changed in the last 30 days
132 recent reviews
Several recent reviews describe a domain-for-sale popup ad on boot and update problems or crashes. This looks like a continuing issue, though it is a small sample.
132 recent reviews
What players love
Interactive, customizable and create your own
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews
“You can have your wallpaper react to sounds like music, react to you moving your mouse”
Steam review · 7.5 h played ↗
Low performance impact, pauses in games
Mentioned in ~1 in 7 positive reviews
“Barely affects performance since it automatically pauses when you're gaming in fullscreen.”
Steam review · 189.9 h played ↗
Cheap and worth the price
Mentioned in ~1 in 8 positive reviews
“Honestly super worth it best few bucks ive ever spent millions of wallpapers that you can add easily”
Steam review · 46.1 h played ↗
Easy to use
Mentioned in ~1 in 14 positive reviews
“Tons of cool animated options to choose from, easy to use, and well worth the price.”
Steam review · 29.8 h played ↗
What players complain about
Crashes, bugs and resource hogging
Mentioned in ~1 in 3 negative reviews
“The engine constantly crashes, goes unresponsive, or straight up just doesn't even load the wallpaper in.”
Steam review · 19.4 h played ↗
Malware in application wallpapers
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews
“Kapersky, a cybersecurity company, just released a report saying that people have been adding malware to application wallpapers and posting them on Wallpaper Engine.”
Steam review · 26.6 h played ↗
Too much NSFW content, filters leak
Mentioned in ~1 in 8 negative reviews
“even if you filter it to be PG13 it will still give you lewd wallpapers”
Steam review · 56.2 h played ↗
GoDaddy domain and popup ads
Mentioned in ~1 in 9 negative reviews
“the app just showed me an popup ad on my desktop. crazy work for a wallpaper app that costs money.”
Steam review · 12.4 h played ↗
Workshop flooded with AI slop, no filter
Mentioned in ~1 in 14 negative reviews
“Just full of ai slop nowadays with no way of filtering it out”
Steam review · 101.7 h played ↗
No native Linux support
Mentioned in ~1 in 14 negative reviews
“I spent 122 hours trying to figure this out just to learn it doesn't work on Linux.”
Steam review · 122.7 h played ↗
System requirements
From the Steam store page
Steam Deck: Unsupported512 MB
Minimum
OSWindows 10, Windows 11
Processor1.66 GHz Intel i5 or equivalent
Memory1024 MB RAM
GraphicsHD Graphics 4000 or above
Storage512 MB available space
Recommended
OSWindows 10, Windows 11
Processor2.0 GHz Intel i7 or equivalent
Memory2048 MB RAM
GraphicsNVIDIA GeForce GTX 660, AMD HD7870, 2 GB VRAM or above
Storage1024 MB available space
OSWindows 10, Windows 11
Processor1.66 GHz Intel i5 or equivalent
Memory1024 MB RAM
GraphicsHD Graphics 4000 or above
Storage512 MB available space
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