Games Like Grand Theft Auto V
Quick Answer
The closest games to Grand Theft Auto V are Red Dead Redemption 2, Saints Row IV, Sleeping Dogs, Watch Dogs 2 and Mafia: Definitive Edition. Below are 9 picks with the reason for each — what carries over from Grand Theft Auto V, and what does not.
What Made Grand Theft Auto V Work
GTA V's real innovation is the three-character switch — the camera pulls out and drops you somewhere else in Los Santos mid-heist, and the city carries on without you either way. The campaign is the studio's most cynical writing and its best-engineered set pieces, and GTA Online is where almost everyone actually is.
Also written as GTA, GTA 5, GTA V, Grand Theft Auto 5, Grand Theft Auto — same game, same list.
9 Games Like Grand Theft Auto V
1.Red Dead Redemption 2
The same studio's other open world, slower and far better written.
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The absurd end of the genre, where the superpowers replace the driving.
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San Francisco, hacking as the traversal, and unusually cheerful.
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A linear crime story with none of the sandbox, and better for it.
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A crime story with far more heart, and the best side content in games.
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How These Picks Match Grand Theft Auto V
Grand Theft Auto V is catalogued here as an open-world crime game among PC and multi-platform games. All nine picks share at least one of its genre tags — nine action games and eight adventures among them.
Two of the picks have their own list on this site, catalogued under the PC & Modern Multi-Platform and the PlayStation 3.
| Game | Genre | Shares with Grand Theft Auto V |
|---|---|---|
| Red Dead Redemption 2 | Action, Adventure, Shooter | Action, Adventure |
| Saints Row IV | Action, Shooter, Adventure | Action, Adventure |
| Sleeping Dogs | Action, Adventure, Fighting | Action, Adventure |
| Watch Dogs 2 | Action, Adventure | Action, Adventure |
| Mafia: Definitive Edition | Action, Adventure, Shooter | Action, Adventure |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | RPG, Action, Adventure | Action, Adventure |
| Just Cause 4 | Action, Shooter, Adventure | Action, Adventure |
| Yakuza 0 | Action, Adventure, Fighting | Action, Adventure |
| Max Payne 3 | Shooter, Action | Action |
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