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: Android Companion App
Use the free Android companion app to transfer your favorite wallpapers to your Android mobile device.
Key Features
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).
Additional notes: Mobile App requires Android 8.1 or newer
To activate the game, you need a Steam Account
Login or register at the official Steam Website and download Steam client
Install and start application, login with your Account name and Password
Click the Games Menu.
Choose Activate a Product on Steam...
Follow the onscreen instructions to complete the process
After the successful code verification, go to the "MY GAMES" tab and start downloading.
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