Impulse Control! vs Save the Spaceman
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Impulse Control!
Engage in a physics-based destruction game where you launch projectiles to demolish realistic structures. Discover your personality type by answering questions and progress through levels to defeat enemies and unlock your profile.
- Realistic building destruction physics
- Projectile launching gameplay
- Unlockable personality profile
- Over 25 levels
- Defeat enemies
- Structural engineer-designed structures
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Impulse Control is a projectile launching game that features realistic building destruction and assigns you a personality type at the end. Meet the warden of Polar Labs and his sidekick, Marlin. Journey through the 4 elements, answering questions about yourself. Enjoy destroying a structure that is connected like a real building - not just a pile of blocks. Impulse Control calls on you to collapse 3 unique structure types developed by a structural engineer. Find out which of the 4 elements describes you the best. Defeat the meanies in over 25 levels and accumulate points to unlock your unique personality profile. Knock down the unique structures in each level with well-placed shots, harmonic resonance, or brute force to create havoc and squash the meanies. This game is not intended to treat any disorders. Impulse control is something we can all practice. "For every minute we remain angry, we give up 60 seconds of peace of mind" so don't be a meanie, give impulse control a try.
Save the Spaceman
Protect an astronaut from falling debris by strategically hitting objects away. The longer you keep the astronaut safe, the higher your score. Customize your astronaut's appearance for a personal touch.
- Hit falling objects
- Save astronaut
- Score multiplier
- Astronaut customization
- Asteroid and rock debris
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Save the astronaut from falling obstacles by hitting them away. There are various types of objects falling from asteroids to falling rock debris. Object of the game is to save the astronaut for as long as possible, the more objects you hit the higher your score will be. You also have the ability to choose the style of your astronaut.
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Verdict
Impulse Control! and Save the Spaceman both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Save the Spaceman's written reviews are positive against 0% of Impulse Control!'s. Impulse Control!'s advantage is update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 7 months). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Impulse Control! against 5.0 for Save the Spaceman. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 4 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 0% of Impulse Control!'s written reviews are positive against 100% of Save the Spaceman's.
Impulse Control! ships an update every 6 weeks, Save the Spaceman every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Impulse Control! | Save the Spaceman |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 7 months |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 130 MB | 44 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Impulse Control | Whirl Click Inc. |
Customer experience
Impulse Control!
Save the Spaceman
In-app purchases
Impulse Control!
No in-app purchases
Save the Spaceman
No in-app purchases
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