Games Like Wallpaper

Your desktop, alive — and aware of your machine

Wallpaper turns your Windows desktop into a living surface. Not a video on loop: these are scenes that read your hardware in real time. Your graphics card heats up and the sky reddens. Your music plays and the ocean moves with it. Snow falls and settles on your real desktop icons.

600+ wallpapers, 14 categories

It reacts to your machine

This is the part a video wallpaper cannot do. Scenes can read:

288 of the wallpapers listen to audio, 203 read the processor, 192 the graphics card, 189 memory, 175 the disks, 89 the network, and 38 read your actual desktop icons.

Tune everything, without writing code

Every wallpaper exposes its own settings panel — 5,500+ settings across the library. Colour, speed, density, which data source drives which effect. Save your tuning as a preset. Each monitor can run a different wallpaper with different settings, and your layout survives cable swaps because settings are bound to the monitor's hardware identity.

Your own photos and videos

Point it at a folder and every image or video inside — subfolders included — is listed. Click one and it becomes the wallpaper of the selected monitor. Fit, brightness, playback speed, volume, blur are all adjustable. Your files are never copied and never moved; they stay exactly where they are.

Built to stay out of the way

Anyone can build one — there are no limits

The editor is the other half of this product. Open it and you are looking at plain HTML, CSS and JavaScript with a live preview next to it. Save, and the wallpaper reloads instantly. No build step, no account, no upload.

Everything the platform reads is one line away. Write pw.subscribe('hw.gpu.temp', v => ...) and your scene knows how hot the graphics card is. The same goes for the sound coming out of your speakers, memory, disks, network, the clock, even the real icons on your desktop. Don't write code? Describe the wallpaper you want to any AI assistant, paste the JavaScript it gives you into the editor and press save. The API is small and documented, and every one of the 600+ bundled wallpapers can be opened as a copy and taken apart — the copy is yours, the original stays untouched.

31 languages

The interface is fully translated into all 31 languages Steam supports. On first run it follows your Windows language.

Everything stays on your machine

Wallpaper reads your hardware locally and shows it to you. There is no account, no telemetry, and no network connection in the core product. Wallpapers run in an isolated browser context that cannot reach your file system, cannot start processes, and cannot reach the network unless a wallpaper declares it and you approve it. Every permission is listed before you apply a wallpaper and can be revoked at any time from the Permissions page.