Comparison

Impulse One vs Drifting Stone

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Impulse One

Pilot a spaceship to rescue stranded employees from a chaotic company. Navigate challenging environments with high gravity, timed conditions, and combat.

Highlights
  • Rescue stranded employees
  • Impulse-driven spaceship piloting
  • High gravity challenges
  • Timed conditions
  • Combat with incoming fire
Features
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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?

About

Drifting Stone

Skip stones across the water, tapping to make them bounce and achieve the highest score. This physics-based game offers endless fun with simple one-button controls, challenging players to master its mechanics.

Highlights
  • One-button gameplay
  • Endless gameplay
  • Physics-based challenges
  • Unlock new stones
  • Global rankings
Features
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Do you enjoy ducks and drakes? Do you want skip stones to jump more on the water? Jump as fast as you can! Don't fall in the water! Easy to play but hard to master gameplay means you’ll be coming back again and again for one more drifting. HOW TO PLAY: -Tap screen to throw out the stone. -When the stone is near the surface of the water, tap screen and make bounce. -When approaching the surface, tap again. -Easy to play. -How many score you can get? Game features. -Free to play -Endless gameplay -One-button gameplay -Fun, fast physics -Easy to learn, hard to master -Earn in-game currency to buy new stone -Global rankings. If you love the game. Give us your feedback: https://www.facebook.com/tutappgames

Screenshots

Impulse One3 screens
Drifting Stone4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Impulse One at none against Drifting Stone's 1. Impulse One also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Drifting Stone's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 11 months) and ratings volume (13 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Drifting Stone sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Impulse One asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Impulse One holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Drifting Stone has 13 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Impulse One ships an update every 11 months, Drifting Stone monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Impulse One versus Drifting Stone: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterImpulse OneDrifting Stone
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better4.7 (13 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings213 — better
Update frequencyEvery 11 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS9.08.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size301 MB20 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperKurt Dekker洁 任

Customer experience

Impulse One

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Drifting Stone

All ratings13 ratings
Positive92.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative7.7%

In-app purchases

None

Impulse One

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Drifting Stone

One-time1
  • No Ad Forever$1.99

Questions

Is Impulse One free?
Impulse One is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Drifting Stone free?
Drifting Stone is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Impulse One or Drifting Stone?
Impulse One is rated higher. Impulse One averages 5.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Drifting Stone averages 4.7 from 13 ratings.
Do Impulse One or Drifting Stone have ads?
Neither Impulse One nor Drifting Stone shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Impulse One or Drifting Stone?
Impulse One ships an update every 11 months, and Drifting Stone monthly. Most recently, Impulse One was updated on October 7, 2026 and Drifting Stone on October 8, 2026.

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