A three-minute paint fight through the streets of Van Gogh Town. Pick a painter, take their signature weapon, and tag the walls on the way to twenty.
Gogh Strike · Paint Clash is a short first-person paint fight set in the streets of Van Gogh Town, by the same author. You pick a painter, take their signature weapon, and shoot colour at the other crew until someone reaches twenty. A round lasts three minutes with quick respawns, so nothing costs you much.
It is a match against bots rather than an online lobby — you and your crew against The Independents. The painters are real names; the paint fight is entirely invented.
How to play Gogh Strike
- WASD to move, mouse to aim and fire, shift to sprint, C to crouch.
- Pick your painter on the front screen. Each one has a signature weapon — the Provençal assault rifle holds 28 rounds and fires automatic; the Atelier Pistol is the sidearm.
- Press J for your painter's signature move, and T to spray your art tag on a wall.
- First crew to twenty wins, or whoever is ahead when the three minutes run out.
- Use the fullscreen button above the game. It is a mouse-look shooter and the framing matters.
Click Fullscreen above the game for the largest play area. If the game does not load, use Open in new tab to play it directly from our copy.
Why it's worth your time
It is the same town as Van Gogh Town with a completely different purpose imposed on it, which is the most interesting thing about it: the geometry that was built to be admired turns out to have decent sightlines and cover. Walking a Starry Night street with a rifle is a strange thing to be able to do.
It is also by far the heaviest game in this collection — our copy is about 120 MB across 134 files, nearly all of it painted textures and character models. It loads slowly the first time and instantly afterwards. It needs a keyboard and mouse and a machine that can hold a frame rate.
How it was made and where it lives
Hosted on the author's own page. The author publishes as petergostev. Original: https://gogh-strike.surge.sh/. The Play button above runs our own unmodified copy, so the game keeps working here if that page goes down — which on free hosting usually has nothing to do with the author. Nothing about the game itself is changed, and the original stays linked from every page.
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Van Gogh Town is the same place without the shooting. The other shooters here are Doodle Shooter, which does have real online multiplayer, and Iron Echo, a vertical arcade shooter.
Frequently asked questions
- Is it online multiplayer?
- No. The other players are bots — your crew against The Independents, locally.
- Why is it so slow to load?
- It carries about 93 MB of painted textures. The first load is slow; after that the browser has it cached.
- Is it related to Van Gogh Town?
- Yes, it is a spin-off by the same author, set in the same town.
- Does it work on a phone?
- No. It is a keyboard-and-mouse shooter.
- Is Gogh Strike free to play?
- Yes. Everything on Floating Arcade is free, with no account, ads or downloads.
- Can I embed this game on my own website?
- Yes — copy the snippet below. The embedded player links back here, which is how we ask to be credited.
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