Vandals

ARTE Experience

About this game

Vandals is an infiltration game that will transport you to the most emblematic cities of street art. In this turn-based game, the aim is to sneak around police surveillance and spray walls that grow harder and harder to access.

From Paris to Tokyo, via São Paulo, Berlin and New York, follow in the wake of ultra-famous street artists like Blek Le Rat and Keith Haring.

With Vandals, you can bomb your alias on the walls of New York like Lady Pink, paint childlike characters like Keith Haring, or get inspired by the poems of Miss.Tic and write your own.

After Type:Rider, Vandals is the new project by Cosmografik. It is a video game published and co-produced by ARTE - the European cultural TV and digital channel - and Ex Nihilo. It was developed in partnership with Novelab.

It is easy to learn, and the puzzles promise hours of immersion and pleasure.

• Share your most awesome creations on social networks
• Rock to the rhythm of an original soundtrack: headphones recommended!
• Play in portrait or landscape mode. Left-handed / right-handed option

The game includes:
• 60 puzzles to solve
• 5 cities with original graphical worlds
• 40 backgrounders on the evolution of street art since the 1960s
• 18 achievements to unlock

Ratings and reviews

A nice setting and for once something different from the usual cutie/retro/zombie BS, challenging missions ... all the ingredients to make it into the PlayStore Top 100 are there. Unfortunately, the publisher has ignored all bug and compatibility issues or other feedback since three years, instead of fine-tuning, polishing and updating the game to its potential. Given that 'Arte' is supposed to be dedicated to and focused on culture and quality content, this is an embarrassment for the company

Great gameplay mechanics, nice graphics, overall it's perfect mobile experience, BUT! it really has some major problems on some devices (Nokia X10, in particular): 1) It's not possible to share you graffiti, there's simply no button for this in "black book" or at the level ending (the same on Samsung Tab S7 FE); it's critical bug because there is achievement for sharing; 2) Achievements "FINDER 40" and "STAR 180" just don't appear in Google Play Games, though the required conditions are met.

Abandonware, not updated since 2018. I bought it as it reminded me of Lara Croft Go, started it up, looked good until it went to landscape mode and the whole interface was stretched and the game was unplayable. Returning to portrait mode and it was still a complete mess and I couldn't make anything out of the screen ...

What's new

fixed the installation problem on Android 12