Fantasy wallpapers

Fantasy is the genre where anything can be a place: a castle on the back of a whale, a staircase through the clouds, a forest where every tree glows. The pictures on this page are original scenes, built from fairy-tale and medieval ideas and not tied to any existing book or game.

Some are painterly, with soft light and a storybook feel. Others are more cinematic, with strong depth, fog and a single bright focal point. Medieval villages, towers, bridges and dragons' perches are common, as are enchanted woods, floating islands and lanterns drifting upward.

Colour is rich. Twilight blues and violets, glowing greens, warm windows and golden sunsets all appear, and the pictures often use a contrast between a dark foreground and a bright distance.

Tall compositions are common in this category, and they fit phones well: the clock sits over the sky and the story takes place below. Wide ones, with a long landscape, suit monitors and a dual screen.

If you want a particular angle, the forest and mushroom pages have enchanted woods, gothic is darker, steampunk is mechanical, and sci-fi looks forward instead of back.

28 fantasy wallpapers (17 for desktop, 3 for phones, 8 square), all free to download in 4K as PNG or JPEG.

From the themes Medieval fantasy, Gothic tale, Stained-glass light, Nature landscapes, Bioluminescence, Biomechanical, Giant mushroom forest, Watercolour cathedral.