Impulse One vs Peaky Knives
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Impulse One
Pilot a spaceship to rescue stranded employees from a chaotic company. Navigate challenging environments with high gravity, timed conditions, and combat.
- Rescue stranded employees
- Impulse-driven spaceship piloting
- High gravity challenges
- Timed conditions
- Combat with incoming fire
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The soda fountains are on overload. Coffee service has been suspended. A technical state of panic exists. The employees are terrified by arbitrary design decision changes. Rescue stranded employees of the PLBM Games company and return them safely to home in your impulse-driven spaceship. This game is challenging... Can you land the spaceship safely? In high gravity? Under stressful timed conditions? In combat? With real bullets coming back at you?
Peaky Knives
Throw knives at targets to smash them with precision. Progress through levels, visit new places, and complete challenges to unlock unique knives. Be careful not to run out of knives or time.
- Precision knife throwing
- Target smashing gameplay
- Level progression
- Unlockable unique knives
- Time and knife management
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Throw the Peaky Knives at the targets and smash them! Be like a Ninja - throw the knives as fast as you can! Hit precisely at the target to get a perfect shot and additional score. And be careful not to run out of the knives or out of time. Progress through the levels and visit new places. Complete the challenges to unlock new unique and interesting knives.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Impulse One at 100% against Peaky Knives's 0%. Impulse One also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2) and rating (5.0 vs 4.6). Peaky Knives's advantage is update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 11 months) and ratings volume (24 vs 2). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Peaky Knives sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Impulse One asks for nothing beyond the download.
Impulse One holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Peaky Knives has 24 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Impulse One's written reviews are positive against 0% of Peaky Knives's.
Impulse One ships an update every 11 months, Peaky Knives every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Impulse One | Peaky Knives |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.6 (24 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 24 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 11 months | Every 4 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 | 8.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 301 MB | 122 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kurt Dekker | ArmNomads LLC |
Customer experience
Impulse One
Peaky Knives
In-app purchases
Impulse One
No in-app purchases
Peaky Knives
- No Ads$1.99
- Unlock knives$4.99
