When the protagonist's implant is accidentally knocked out and the working networks cannot keep him calm, he uses the parkour skills in order to escape the city before getting captured by the hunters sent by the "Big Brother.” Damien McFerran of Pocket Gamer rated 8 out of 10 stars for the Android version and wrote that Vector's playability makes up for its lack of innovation.

[2] Reviewing the Facebook version, Pete Davison of Adweek's SocialTimes blog called it "an impressive game in all respects" but said it needs better social features.

Johnson described the gameplay as occasionally grindy but concluded that the game is "fun stuff, and much more challenging than your run-of-the mill Facebook fare.

"[3] Cameron Woolsey of GameSpot rated 7 out of 10 stars for the PC version and wrote that the game is "a fast-paced joyride" when it does annoy with its grind.

[4] The game received a 2016 sequel titled Vector 2, which continues that the protagonist was eventually captured by security forces and the antagonists decides to use his skills to test some new equipment inside a research facility known as "The Complex", which secretly performs cloning experiments.