Comparison

PALINGENESIS vs Glintstorm

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

Head to head
About

PALINGENESIS

Experience an album as an interactive music video game. Explore animated worlds, each tied to a song, and uncover a developing narrative through your journey. This unique application blends hand-crafted animation with interactive gameplay.

Highlights
  • Interactive animated worlds
  • Music-driven environments
  • Unfolding narrative
  • Hand-crafted animation
  • Visual sequences
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PALINGENESIS is a music video game. The album by GRIGS unfolds as a series of interactive animated worlds, with each environment built around a different song. Created entirely by animator and musician John Paul Grigsby, PALINGENESIS brings together hand-crafted animation, interactive environments, and visual sequences that appear as you move through each world. As you progress through the album, a larger story begins to take shape through the environments and the moments you come across along the way. Listen to PALINGENESIS by GRIGS wherever you stream music. www.johngrigsby.com

About

Glintstorm

Features
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Glintstorm is a fast, premium bullet-heaven survival game built for quick, satisfying runs. Drag to steer, dodge the swarm, and let auto-fire carve through it while you shape each run with level-up picks, weapon evolutions, and Storm Cache drafts. NEW IN 3.0 • Daily Contracts: three fresh objectives every day, the same for every player. Complete them in real runs to earn Glint Shards, and keep a daily streak going for up to +50% bounty. • Blitz: a three-minute sprint with double the storm and 50% more XP. • Practice: your hull can't be damaged and nothing is recorded, so you can learn any stage, boss, or build. • Personal bests for every stage at every difficulty, with a new-record callout on the results screen. • Relative Drag steering, so your finger never covers your ship. • Assist game speed, high-visibility enemy bolts, full Dynamic Type, and rebuilt haptics. THE GAME • 11 pilots, each with their own stats and signature weapon • 9 weapons, each with an evolution, plus 14 passive items • 13 enemy types and 7 bosses across 6 stages, each stage with its own live hazard: drift currents, void edges, ember storms, flaring shard fields, and a rotating gale • 7 modes: Standard, Endless Surge, Boss Rush, Gauntlet, Blitz, Daily Seed, and Practice • 10 fixed-seed Trials, an 8-rung Ascension ladder, and run mutators for extra risk and reward • Graze bonuses and kill-chain multipliers for score chasers • Normal, Hard, and Nightmare difficulty PROGRESSION Every run earns Glint Shards, even when you fall. Spend them in the Upgrade Shop on permanent boosts, or on new pilots and stages. You can track your progress through personal bests, medals, 48 achievements, a Hall of Fame, and a full run history that shows each build. ACCESSIBILITY • Relative or Follow Finger steering • Assist game speed (85% or 70%) • Reduced flash and reduced motion (it also follows the system setting) • A colorblind-safe enemy palette and high-visibility enemy bolts • Adjustable hazard intensity • Dynamic Type and VoiceOver labels, with spoken warnings for hazards, bosses, and low hull • Haptics and sound can each be turned off Everything is included in one purchase, with no subscription and nothing to buy inside the game. It runs 100% offline with no account, no ads, and no tracking.

Screenshots

PALINGENESIS4 screens
Glintstorm4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: PALINGENESIS at Free against Glintstorm's $0.99. PALINGENESIS also leads on device support (4 vs 2) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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

PALINGENESIS is free to download; Glintstorm costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PALINGENESIS ships an update every 9 days, Glintstorm every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
PALINGENESIS versus Glintstorm: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPALINGENESISGlintstorm
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating4.8 (12 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings12 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size741 MB4 MB
Age rating12+9+
DeveloperJohn Paul GrigsbyRobert Corbin

In-app purchases

None

PALINGENESIS

No in-app purchases

None

Glintstorm

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is PALINGENESIS free?
PALINGENESIS is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Glintstorm free?
Glintstorm costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do PALINGENESIS or Glintstorm have ads?
Neither PALINGENESIS nor Glintstorm shows ads.
Which is updated more often, PALINGENESIS or Glintstorm?
PALINGENESIS ships an update every 9 days, and Glintstorm every 4 days. Most recently, PALINGENESIS was updated on October 24, 2026 and Glintstorm on October 28, 2026.

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