Impulse One vs Tap or Cry
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?
Tap or Cry
Punch monsters, break bones, and detonate bombs to save the world from interdimensional portals. Collect power-ups, avoid traps, and enjoy a fun, arcade-style experience with great artwork and music. Play anywhere, anytime, even offline.
- Punching and combat mechanics
- Collect power-ups and weapons
- Avoid sneaky traps
- Intense visual effects and artwork
- Offline play supported
- Arcade-style gameplay
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When creepy monsters start arriving through interdimensional portals you are left with one option - roll up your sleeves and get your fists ready. Break skeleton bones, punch out zombie brains and enjoy a fresh shower of teeth, debris and fire as you detonate bombs or go crazy with your iron fists. Only you can save the world by collecting all the Anti-Portal Crystals and destroy the portals once and for all. MONSTERS EVERYWHERE, INFINITE. Some monsters are easy to kill, some are way harder and some even try to avoid your punches! Stay on your fingers, be ready and see how long you can survive! COLLECT EXOTIC POWER-UPS AND WEAPONS. When things heat up, use the Slowmo-snail to cool things down, smash monsters with your iron fists, launch deadly drones or just explode everything for a short moment of peace and quiet. WATCH OUT FOR SNEAKY TRAPS. Don't just tap on everything that comes at you. You might get poisoned, electroshocked, dizzy or activate the horrible Superspeed snail. GREAT ARTWORK, MUSIC AND ATMOSPHERE. Intense visual effects, creative and cartoonish artwork and a fantastic soundtrack specificly composed for Tap or Cry. This game has a creepy, fun and arcadish atmosphere. PLAY ANYWHERE AND ANYTIME. No WiFi connection? Don't worry - Tap or Cry also works without WiFi. CREATED BY ONE GUY. That's me, Kenni. A solo game developer, living in Copenhagen. If you enjoy the game, please consider supporting it. Share it with your friends, purchase the ad-free version or just play it a lot. It all helps. Want to know more about my games and what I'm up to? Visit my website @ northmice.games, follow me on social media or sign up for my newsletter. Thanks for playing Tap or Cry and hope to see you around!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Impulse One at none against Tap or Cry's 4. Impulse One also leads on ads (none vs shown). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Tap or Cry sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Impulse One asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Impulse One against 5.0 for Tap or Cry. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Impulse One ships an update every 11 months, Tap or Cry every 9 months. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Impulse One | Tap or Cry |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 11 months | Every 9 months — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| 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 | 181 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Kurt Dekker | Northmice ApS |
Customer experience
Impulse One
Tap or Cry
In-app purchases
Impulse One
No in-app purchases
Tap or Cry
- Pile of coins$0.99
- Remove Ads$1.99
- Sack of coins$1.99
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- Crate of shiny coins$2.99









