Pulse : Volume One
Step into the gaming world with Pulse : Volume One, one of the top $3.99 games in the App Store! Crafted with creativity and innovation by Cipher Prime Studios Inc., this captivating Casual game is bound to grab your attention. With its content rating of 4+, it caters to a wide audience. Ever since its release on 5th May 2011, it has been constantly updated, with the latest version rolled out on 11th July 2019.
Whether you have a liking for Casual, Entertainment, or Music games, Pulse : Volume One is sure to keep you hooked!
User Ratings
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Dive into Pulse : Volume One
Enter an absorbing world where players become part conductor, part note-captor, part multi-touch master. Tap speeding notes as they cross the radiant pulse to conduct gorgeous original melodies.
GAME FEATURES
- Nearly an hour of original music plus frequent free updates with brand new levels and music!
- Gameplay featuring an intuitive and original use of multi-touch!
- Sleek, engaging design created specifically for the iPad!
- Easy to play, hard to master!
- Whimsical particles in awe-inspiring palettes!
- Eclectic soundtrack of varying genres!
GAME REVIEWS
“A remarkable rhythm game.”
- Macworld
“A package so thoroughly well put together that you’re reminded of why music games were popular in the first place.”
- Pocket Gamer
“Pulse is pretty much unlike anything else that’s on the market.”
- Gamezebo
“[Pulse] makes me want to buy an iPad right now.”
- Warpzoned
“The game’s diverse soundtrack highlights a variety of styles that, when combined with gameplay, offers an uncommonly rich player experience.”
- Spawnpoint
“If you’ve got an iPad, then there should be no question about Pulse: it’s pretty to look at, it’s enjoyably difficult, and it’s easy to show off… for fans of rhythm games and Cipher Prime’s previous work, Pulse is a must own.”
- DIYGamer
“Deceptively simple, yet incredibly immersive.”
- Geekadelphia
“Destined to stimulate the senses of sight, sound, and touch.”
- Game Set Watch
“Pulse: Volume One showcases what makes the iPad an incredible device. The music, graphics, and multi-touch, immersive, gaming experience is second to none. If you desire an app that will not only provide you with hours of joy, but will make you the envy of all you show it to, Pulse: Volume One is more than worth your [money].”
- TheIpadFan
“I haven’t seen anything out there like Pulse, and highly anticipate any future work that Cipher Prime has in store for us.”
- The Indie Game Magazine
CIPHER PRIME
Cipher Prime is a multi-award winning creative agency from Philadelphia specializing in game development. Their debut game, Auditorium, received many awards. Fractal, their second release, captured the attention of gamers everywhere. Today, they are still a small independent studio.
What’s Fresh in the Latest Update?
Discover what’s new in the recent update of Pulse : Volume One on 11th July 2019:
We’re baaack! After a long hiatus, Pulse is once again available on the iPad! We’ve optimized performance and scaled our graphics for Retina displays, so it should be the cleanest, crispest, bestest version of the Pulse that you’ve come to know and love. Happy tapping!
Hear from the Players – Pulse : Volume One Reviews
Find out what gamers are saying about Pulse : Volume One:
We got this game over seven years ago, and when we got a new ipad, we I didnt upload it. Now we’ve rediscovered it with our eight-year-old daughter and we are obsessed. Not only is if fun an mesmerizing, we also happen to believe it has cognitive benefits, and we wish these developers would continue to develop (and market) games like this that could be used in educational settings, or therapeutically. Rhythm, color, and music, and light are powerful, and this game is legitimately beautiful and musical actual music is at his heart, not some tinny soundtrack. More, please!!!
We have sorely missed this game during its hiatus.
How do we get our money back. Too bad you are building the great games you did before.
For something that should bring some tranquility, its the most irritating game ever. Dont download this if your looking for something calm that also exercises your mind. You will want to break your iPad in half. Im reporting this app to the apple store.
We love pulse! Now all we need is more songs! The one thing is, since the new update, some of the songs are messed up in a few, like Orbital Drop and DT01, or the last track, some of the little circles that you press on fly across the screen and don’t line up, unlike the older version. We don’t know if this was on purpose or not, but it doesn’t seem to be so. It might be the program, or the fact that our IPad is the first generation, we don’t know myself, but please fix if it’s on your part! We’ll still keep the game, because most of the tracks are fine.
We love this game, we just wish we could get it on our Iphone too.
Its a good game, but cmon. It’s been like 3 years and no new songs have been added in yet…
Having just required our first iPad, we spent too many years not getting a chance to play this game. Cipher Prime has previously impressed us with Auditorium (not so much with Splice), but Pulse may now be our favorite game of theirs. Intuitive, approachable, challenging, beautiful visual design, and, of course, a killer soundtrack, just like all of their games. The music ranges from mellow orchestral and acoustic tunes to frenzied electronic dance tracks. There are also some internationally flavored songs as well, and several dubstep tracks. For the music nerds, we really liked that the time signatures ranged from swaying 3/4 waltzes to rolling 6/8 rhythms to over-caffeinated, 120bps+ blasts.
We absolutely love everything about this game! Which is why we desperately ask for some more songs. We know two have just been added, but sadly we do not think that is enough. We would really appreciate some more songs and we’re sure others would agree. Thank you!
Thank you so much for the new songs! Such fun, both of them. We’ve missed our Pulse. Keep ’em coming!
The game is awesome, hands down. We played it all the time. That was until we tried to open it and it said the developer needs to upgrade the app that it can be used. Can you please update app… 1. This is not a free app, so you own it to you customers to keep it functional or refund their money. Again, we have nothing but good to say about the app… We would really like to be able to play it again.
We love this game, and think its a great twist on the music game genre. This update includes two new songs, one is slow and boring but the other (dead by arrival) is fantastic. The only problem is this game is we need more songs!!!!!!
We would love to play this game again.
This game is fantastic. We bought it when it first came out. However, there are something’s that need improving. Playing on the iPad mini, we’ve noticed that the pulse is is ahead of the music, just enough to be a problem. You can’t tap to the music because the pulse simply isn’t with the music. One other thing playing on the iPad mini, sometimes the dots are so close together you tap two or three at once unintentionally. If you could make touching the dots more accurate, or find another solution to this problem, that would give you 5 stars.
Purchased this game and have had so much fun playing it, but now we cant play at all because it needs to be upgraded and the developer has not done this! Seriously!!!!!!! Not happy!
We love the game but we’re giveing it 1 star because in 3 long years (even type it down still) no volume 2 seriously if you are working on it hurry up before we get inpatient OK MAKE A VOLUME 2 OK OK OK !!!!!!!!!!!!
This game may be intuitive and different from other games but if you are expecting anything like auditorium prepare to be disappointed. Waste of money.
Please add Autumn by Cipher Prime! It was released in 2009. It’s such a good song! (probably because we’re an orchestra nerd) please add it to Pulse!
Will forever be one of our favorite games for iOS. Brilliantly intuitive, intelligently designed, easy-to-pick-up, and with some truly haunting melodies to play to. Turn out the lights and hook it up to a set of speakers and you’ll have one awesome party game! We’re truly shocked it doesn’t have a swarm of positive feedback.
Could you make a track creator where you play your music and the game records it? After it’s finished, it would show the song almost like a heartbeat monitor. The louder the volume when at a certain point, the larger the volume spikes. It would also pick up background music. When the volume spikes significantly in comparison to the background music, you could highlight the peak. After you’re done with highlighting (or something), it would show the four ring area. You could then place the small circles appropriately with each highlighted spike. We hope you can take this idea and make it something better.
This game is a ton of fun. We just wish that they can bring Auditorium over to the iPad or at least get funding for Auditorium2.
We were looking around to see if app store has technika but then we found this. Plays similarly but this is awesome. We love the music alot. Its great. We want a volume 2. Cant stop playing it. Bin telling everyone to play it :)
Last update was February. Can we expect more to come? We hope so. Using iPad 3 so graceful worth the $
We thought rhythm games were stupid until we played this. GREAT music and perfect style. Nice ramp up of difficulty by round. This is a fantastic game. Buy it now.
So simple.. And so satisfying – so beautiful on several levels… We’re happy creative pieces like this exist :) – even a bigger fan now, after checking out the site, kickstarter page, etc. We’ll definitely continue to support the development!
This game is one that we find myself always coming back to. The really awesome part is that every time we come back, there are new songs in there waiting for us. Pulse does it right, and draws you in. If you are into music, you will get into this.
When we decided to get this game, we thought it would be just another flashy but gimmicky throwaway title that would be fun for just a few days before falling flat. We could not have been more wrong, we’re pleased to write. The game is very unforgiving, in a good way. It’s easy to pick up and get lost in the game, but make one false move (which is sure to happen, even on tracks you’ve mastered), and you instantly lose the beat and are forced scramble to get ahead of the cascade of missed bubbles. It thus manages to be very easy and frick’n hard at the same time, jostling you from a laid back flow to a mad rush and back to flow on a moment’s notice. In many ways, although the two games are in entirely different genres, it reminds us of the Wipeout series back in its glory days of unforgiving, drifty racing before Fusion diluted the core game with too much focus on weapons and characters and before Pulse made the ships turn on a dime with even more focus on weapons. We suppose that really sums it up. Pulse: Volume One is to abstract musical rhythm games what Wipeout 2097 (or Wipeout Pure’s brief return to formula) was to futuristic antigravity racing games. And we love it for that.
Intuitive. They don’t even have to tell you how to play, you just know. Looks great. There are a couple of great songs we really like. Pretty cool.
This may well be our favorite game for the iPad. It’s instantly catchy, and the game is excellent all the way through. Personally, we love almost every track in the game. Others may disagree, but we all have different tastes. Bottom line is that this game is a lot of fun. Our friends absolutely love to play this gam when we get together. There’s no reason you shouldn’t buy this right now.
We’re addicted !! We like the game and most songs . Love the colors. More techno trance would be even more awesome !!
This is probably our favorite game on iPad. It looks brilliant on the iPad 3 and is a particularly good experience when using nice headphones. What a great developer! Please support these interesting works of art so they make more.
This game has wonderful graphics and a simplistic design. It’s one of our all-time favorite games, which is saying something, because we have a lot of games on our iPad. Our first impression of the game was that is was all graphics and not that fun, but after having it for a while, we really like it. Our favorite songs are Ryzetta, Sakura, Iterate, Pop, and High Roller, but the other songs are good too. We don’t really like Porcelain Doll, though. Not sure if it’s supposed to be reminiscent or creepy… Cinder just has to be Hunger Games inspired, Let’s Roll has really awesome sunglasses that appear when you hit the right note, and Veedja is kind of strange and pixellated.
We like this game alot. We just wish that they came out with an iPod Touch version too.
We LOVE this app! We just can’t put it down! Each song is progressively more challenging than the last, and we’ve literally gotten goosebumps when first mastering difficult sections in the more difficult pieces. Please release Pulse 2 ASAP!!!!!!
This is by far our favorite game on the iPad! It has lots of amazing songs to play and it’s so much fun! If you don’t have this game you are not living!!!
We love this game. We are on a quest to get 100% on every song, but, by chance, is there something wrong with one of the dots in Porcelain Doll? We have gotten 99% on that song, not missing any dots but that one. We’re pretty sure it’s not our fault :-)
Simply beautiful & absolutely amazing! The music is sensual & uplifting. The game concept is so original, so unique & a breath of fresh air to all the other app games out there! It’s a must for iPads!
We have only few problems with it. A) Difficulty. We can’t change a setting to make it easier for a white dude that has no music skill, but loves music games. :P b) Soundtrack. We would maybe purchase the soundtrack for a few bucks or if there was an option in the game to listen to the tracks. That pop! Song could easily be in the Fez game. :) c) Hit box detection. We use light taps on the orbs yet somehow we can easily hit four of them with one tap and it ruins the streak. This might be our biggest concern. :\ d) The Name of the Game. There is already Pulse, the news app and everytime we recommend the app they think we’re talking about the news app. We dunno who’s idea it was to call it "pulse", but it was a bad idea since pulse has been around day 1 for the iPad. We know and get why it’s called that, but just change it, to differ yourselves from the news app. :? Overall, one of the few iOS games that deserve something for just being good and original. For the most part, you download one iOS game, you download them all. Not in this case. Just fix those few issues and its a huge homerun. :D.
We find this game to be enjoyable, however, there are a few issues. For one, the game seems to have difficulty detecting input, it makes a fair quantity of mistakes and seems to err on the side of admonishment (e.g. If there are two dots close to each other in one of the games many musical runs, if your finger is slightly off center from the dot, it will detect this as input on the next dot, usually causing you to miss both of them). It is for the most part accurate, it is only on the parts where there are dots close to each other that it tends to have issues. Also, the last level is basically impossible if you have multitasking commands enabled.
Great game. We would love to make our own tracks using garage band or something similar.
Although the menu music reminds us a bit of silent hill, the songs are interesting. One piece of advise though, do not play this game if you have man hands!
We simply love this game. Great concept, excellent music! Vol.2 please!
This game succeeds in being entertaining but not so much as a rhythm game. The design just doesn’t work that well if you’re looking for complex and fast paced rhythms because of how inconsistent the spacing between the rings gets as it moves outside. It becomes hard to see the outer dots. The movement is distracting if you are focused on timing. Our biggest problem is the timing. THIS GAME IS OUT OF SYNCH. We play a lot of rhythm games and we can tell that the dots ask to be hit way too early. Its off synch by about 1/20 a beat. It messes up difficult rhythms because you’re not in tune with the music and it’s very distracting. The game has a wide variety of tracks and a lot of music. We think it has around 25 tracks, which is a lot. There is only one difficulty. So overall its okay. It has a cool design but doesnt work for rhythm.
We have loved this game and found myself quite addicted to it when we first downloaded it. Now ~ we have shown it to other new iPad users .. And gotten them equally as addicted ~ the problem though ~ is that now .. Our version no longer plays audio ~ we cannot delete it completely that we are aware of as it sits always saying we have "already downloaded" it ~ but something is corrupt ~ can anyone help?
This is a Guitar Hero/Rock Band/DDR game featuring music you’ve never heard. The problem for us was trying to intuit what the composer was going to do next with the song- virtually impossible if you haven’t heard the song before. We would argue that the less predictable the song, the more enjoyable to listen to, the more frustrating this game is. Not our favorite.
It’s kinda a cool game, but its kinda weird too. Sort of mesmerizing. It’s nice and all, but we wouldn’t pay for it.
Makes use of a lot of the iPads features, like great sound, touch,(and minimal but stylish graphics). Somehow it would make the game a little easier if you could connect to your own songs. The only way to get good is to get to know the included tracks by repeatedly playing, which we guess is the point. But it gets insanely hard and the ‘dual tap on opposite sides’ we found overly frustrating and impossible. But really really smooth and awesome. Would’ve liked a bit more graphics tho. The target graphic reminded us of an old school record disk spinning. Thanks developers!
You can’t tap just one of the points, if they are close. It is impossible to play on iPad Mini.