Impulse One vs Drift
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?
Drift
Experience a precision platformer set in a surreal house filled with ticking clocks and shifting realities. Explore 17 unique rooms, master precise movement mechanics, and uncover a poignant story told through memories. Challenge yourself with daily dreams and unlockable difficulty modes.
- 17 hand-built rooms
- Precision platforming mechanics
- Story told through memories
- Daily Dream challenges
- Unlockable difficulty modes
- Speedrun timer
- Shop with boosters
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A precision platformer about leaving a house full of clocks. Free to play. If you loved Celeste, Journey, or Gris — this is your next obsession. She grew up in a house where the clocks didn't tick in time. Where the wallpaper breathed. Where mirrors stopped agreeing. The story starts small — a man at the table, a hallway that grew longer when she was alone in it — and ends with every clock in the house stopping. You play as the version of her that walked out. FEATURES • 17 hand-built rooms — each its own mood, palette, and score • Precision mechanics: wall slide, wall jump, air dash, coyote time • A story told one memory at a time • Daily Dream — a new room every day, same seed for every player • 3 Dream Layers: beat the game to unlock Nightmare and Abyss • 10 achievements • Speedrun timer • Shop with boosters and cosmetic effects • Original soundtrack that shifts with the room • Free to play, no required purchases "the house tried to swallow the sound. it could not."
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Impulse One at none against Drift's 4. Impulse One also leads on ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.1). Drift's advantage is update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 11 months). On price, rating, ratings volume and device support 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. Drift 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 Drift. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.
Impulse One ships an update every 11 months, Drift every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Impulse One | Drift |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 11 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 301 MB | 37 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Kurt Dekker | Elliott White |
Customer experience
Impulse One
Drift
In-app purchases
Impulse One
No in-app purchases
Drift
- Dream Pack$0.99
- 50 Coins$0.99
- 200 Coins$2.99
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- 500 Coins$4.99









