# Vesper Drift: Bullet Hell — One-thumb arcade space shooter > One-thumb arcade space shooter (iPhone/iPad app by Benjamin Dupin.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/vesper-drift-bullet-hell/id6791882792 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Benjamin Dupin](https://appshunter.io/developer/1871474236) - Category: Games, Entertainment - Price: Free with in-app purchases - Age rating: 12+ - Requires: iOS 17.0 · 20 MB - Languages: American English, French (France) - Released: 2026-07-21 - Data updated: 2026-09-21 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/vesper-drift-bullet-hell/id6791882792/reviews.md ## What is Vesper Drift? A real bullet hell you can play with one thumb: drag anywhere on the screen and the ship follows the relative motion of your finger — never hidden under your hand, no virtual joystick in the way. No ads, no account, no tracking, no subscription. Every run works fully offline. There is one optional purchase, Vesper Mastery, and nothing else to buy. FREE AND UNLIMITED The endless run, as many attempts as you like. All four Blooms, Nova, the Guardian fights. Your last twenty runs in the history panel, the offline local leaderboard and the Game Center one. And the Drift of the Day, free: one shared seed, one ranked attempt a day. SHARE YOUR FINISHED RUN Create a result card for free, preview it and choose where to share it. Score, duration, grazes and maximum Flux come from that run. Ranked runs and practice stay distinct; the card includes no drift code or player identity. VESPER MASTERY — ONE PURCHASE, NO SUBSCRIPTION One optional purchase, paid once, for pilots who want to choose their track instead of drawing it: • Cycle Chamber — restart the drift at any cycle you have already reached, as many times as you want, instead of flying the opening cycles again to reach the deep ones. • Drift codes — read out the code of any flight, type one in, fly that exact track again, and hand it to a friend. Chamber and coded flights are training: they are kept in your run history and stay out of the leaderboards, so a comparable score always means the same thing. Nothing that already existed was moved behind this purchase, and if you were flying Vesper Drift before version 1.1.0, Mastery is already yours, free. ENTER THE COSMIC FOREST Guide a luminous starship through a portrait shoot’em up set deep in a cosmic forest. ONE ENDLESS RUN There is one focused endless challenge, free and unlimited. Your ship fires straight ahead automatically, with no hidden enemy targeting. Grazes and defeated threats charge Nova, which clears hostile fire automatically when full. FOUR TEMPORARY BLOOMS Pick up four temporary powers during the run. Twin Bloom multiplies your shots, Quickened Heart accelerates fire, Sun Pollen increases damage and Orbiting Veil absorbs a hit. Their short duration makes movement and timing matter. LEARN FAST, MASTER THE FLUX Readable formations introduce each threat before crossing enemies, aimed volleys, rings and lane patterns begin to overlap. Every covering lane pattern preserves and previews an escape corridor. Graze hostile fire to raise Flux, charge Nova and push your score. SEEDED PROCEDURAL FOREST Every run assembles a deterministic, multi-depth cosmic forest from a seed. The backdrop is composed at runtime only from the game’s existing ImageGen artwork, keeping the playfield alive while preserving a clear central corridor. DRIFT OF THE DAY — FREE One seed, the same for every pilot on the planet, until midnight UTC. One ranked attempt, then the track rolls over. It is free, and Vesper Mastery does not touch it. ONE ENDLESS LEADERBOARD Every score belongs to the same endless challenge. Keep a local leaderboard offline and optionally compare that same format on Vesper Drift’s single Game Center leaderboard. ## Pricing and in-app purchases Base price: Free. **One-time purchases** | Purchase | Price | Type | | --- | --- | --- | | Strong support | $4.99 | one-time | | Coffee | $0.99 | one-time | | Big thanks | $2.99 | one-time | ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 1.3.2 — 2026-09-19 Restoring purchases now also recovers eligible historical Mastery access after reinstalling. Confirmed purchases remain available offline, including immediately after launch. Restoration explains when the App Store cannot verify access. Gameplay, saved runs and the free game remain unchanged. ### 1.3.1 — 2026-09-13 Prepares Vesper Drift for iOS and iPadOS 27 by completing its privacy manifest declaration for the existing UserDefaults access. Gameplay, visuals, controls, saved runs, Game Center and Mastery access are unchanged. ### 1.3.0 — 2026-09-10 Share a card of your finished run, with its score, duration, grazes and maximum Flux. Ranked runs and unranked practice stay clearly identified; Daily cards retain the recorded UTC day. Preview before choosing a sharing destination. Your drift code and player identity are not included. Sharing the result is free; gameplay, saved runs and Mastery remain unchanged. ### 1.2.0 — 2026-09-08 Vesper Drift 1.2.0 makes danger easier to read and your next flight easier to start. • Hostile shots stand out from your ship’s fire; flight announcements leave your ship in view. • Flux has a visible label, and results explain what hit you after a fatal collision. • Replay stays within reach while you scroll and identifies the next mode. • Practice results clearly show that the run is unranked. • Vesper Mastery explains its two tools: retry a reached cycle with the starting ship, or replay a route using its code. Scoring rules and existing entitlements are preserved. Daily Drift remains free, with one ranked attempt per UTC day. Mastery remains an optional one-time purchase with no subscription. ### 1.1.0 — 2026-08-31 Vesper Drift 1.1.0 adds a track everybody flies together, and a way to choose your own. • DRIFT OF THE DAY, free: one seed shared by every pilot until midnight UTC, one ranked attempt • Vesper Mastery, an optional one-time purchase, no subscription • Cycle Chamber: restart the drift at any cycle you have already reached, without limit • Drift codes: read, enter, replay and share the exact seed of a flight • Chamber and coded flights are kept in your run history and stay out of the leaderboards • Every score already on the endless leaderboard is untouched • The optional tips are gone; Vesper Drift now has one honest thing to sell • Pilots who were already flying keep Vesper Mastery for free ## More apps by Benjamin Dupin - [LoadSense: Recovery & Training](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/loadsense-recovery-and-training/id6758211103) - [TempoReps: Gym Timer](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/temporeps-gym-timer/id6758854166) - [PRVault: 1RM & WOD Tracker](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/prvault-1rm-and-wod-tracker/id6758960761) - [NeatShift: Chore Planner](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/neatshift-chore-planner/id6759961773) - [BrewMeter - Caffeine Tracker](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/brewmeter-caffeine-tracker/id6760132566) - [GrooveLog: Pull-Up Coach](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/groovelog-pull-up-coach/id6760195408) All apps by Benjamin Dupin: https://appshunter.io/developer/1871474236 --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-21.*