Impulsion

Impulsion

Fair · Shooter · 2018

The verdict

BUY IT.

Fair at $1.29, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Jul 2018. Buy it now if you want it.

Length
2.5h 3.5h to 100%
Value
$0.52/hr
Reviews
86% of 326 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.

Full price

Fair$12.99

Today

−90%Fair
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

How to read this

Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Value$0.52/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set That is today's sale price. Normally $5.20/hr
Holding it back
Reviews86% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 84% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 98 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

Impulsion is a fast-paced first-person platformer designed to play with your nerves and reflexes! Make your way through 25 levels of increasing difficulty by manipulating physics to your advantage, shooting force fields to slow down or speed yourself up and the environment!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Nvidia GTX 660 or equivalent, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

August 2022 is where it bottomed out, at $1.29. It has been discounted 74 times in the 8 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 5 weeks apart.

On value it sits in the top 19 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 64 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, SEUM: Speedrunners from Hell ($14.99, scores 90) beats it on value, while it beats DeadCore ($9.99, scores 58).

The drop-off

93% start to 8% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements

What players say

Having paid only 1,29$ for it is a steal, short but really cool game for such a good price, I wouldn't reccomend at full price tho considering this is a 2-3 hour game, absolutely buy on sale tho. The mechanics feel really fluid and the game is really satisfying to play, I don't get why is this game so unknown when it's actually good.
Artem43xRecommendedafter 4.0hOct 2025Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

Cite this score

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Impulsion scores 67/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/811270/impulsion
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Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+7
Critics79
Players86
Metacritic critics · 326 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperDriving Force Games
PublisherDear Villagers
GenreShooter
Released2018
Players75Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements27