Comparison

Killdozer vs PULSE1

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

Head to head
About

Killdozer

Experience the thrill of urban demolition as you unleash a powerful bulldozer to destroy a town that wronged you. Engage in satisfying destruction and experience the chaos.

Highlights
  • Demolish buildings
  • Destroy the town
  • Bulldoze through the city
  • Satisfying destruction gameplay
Features
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Demolish, Destroy, and Bulldoze your way through the city after they screwed you over!

About

PULSE1

This one-thumb arcade game challenges you to tap a sweeping pulse as it crosses a shrinking zone. Achieve higher tiers of heat with perfect timing, but one miss ends your run. Compete on global leaderboards and experience satisfying haptic feedback.

Highlights
  • One-finger control
  • Short, engaging runs
  • Infinitely climbing difficulty
  • Mutators for varied gameplay
  • Combo multiplier system
  • Global leaderboards
  • Haptic feedback
Features
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PULSE1 is the one-thumb arcade game you'll open "just for one run" and look up twenty minutes later. A pulse sweeps around a ring. Tap when it crosses the zone. That's it — and that's the trap. Every hit shrinks the zone, reverses the sweep, and pushes your heat higher. Every ten hits the ring SHATTERS and you climb to the next tier — Ember, Kindling, Flicker, Flame, Blaze, Wildfire, Firestorm, Inferno, Meltdown... all the way up to Supernova, and tiers nobody has named yet. One miss ends the run. But PULSE1 always tells you exactly how close you were. 2° away. 3 from your record. You know you had it. You know the next run is the one. FEATURES • One-finger play — playable with your phone flat on a table • Runs of 1–3 minutes — perfect for a queue, an elevator, an excuse • Infinite heat — the difficulty never stops climbing • Mutators — twin pulses, phantom zones, flashpoints and reversals • Solar flares — rare golden zones worth 5x sparks • Combo system — perfect taps stack multipliers up to 5x • Top 100 leaderboards — see how hot the world burned • Haptic feedback on every hit, break, and heartbreak • Free forever — no purchases, no subscriptions, no paywall. Ever.

Screenshots

Killdozer3 screens
PULSE14 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: PULSE1 at every 2 weeks against Killdozer's monthly. Killdozer's advantage is ratings volume (8 vs 1) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating, 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

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Killdozer against 5.0 for PULSE1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Killdozer has 8 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Killdozer ships an update monthly, PULSE1 every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on July 6, 2026 and September 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Killdozer versus PULSE1: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterKilldozerPULSE1
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (8 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings8 — better1
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supportedAd-supported
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS12.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size22 MB4 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperParker SmithsonEran Gilad

Customer experience

Killdozer

All ratings8 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

PULSE1

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Killdozer

No in-app purchases

None

PULSE1

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Killdozer free?
Killdozer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is PULSE1 free?
PULSE1 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Killdozer or PULSE1?
Killdozer and PULSE1 are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 8 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Killdozer or PULSE1 have ads?
Both Killdozer and PULSE1 show ads.
Which is updated more often, Killdozer or PULSE1?
Killdozer ships an update monthly, and PULSE1 every 2 weeks. Most recently, Killdozer was updated on July 6, 2026 and PULSE1 on September 18, 2026.

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