Single-player games like Grand Theft Auto III
Below are 18 single-player Steam games similar to Grand Theft Auto III, ranked by player overlap. Every pick carries Steam's Single-player category, so multiplayer-only titles or always-online games don't sneak in. imho.run pulls the category data from Steam directly — Single-player here matches what the store labels.
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Ranked picks
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Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Single-player alternative to Grand Theft Auto III — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Grand Theft Auto III.
Welcome to Vice City. Welcome to the 1980s. From the decade of big hair, excess and pastel suits comes a story of one man's rise to the top of the criminal pile.
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Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
Single-player alternative to Grand Theft Auto III — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Grand Theft Auto III.
Five years ago Carl Johnson escaped from the pressures of life in Los Santos, San Andreas... a city tearing itself apart with gang trouble, drugs and corruption. Where filmstars and millionaires do their best to avoid the dealers and gangbangers. Now, it's the early 90s. Carl's got to go home.
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Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City
Single-player alternative to Grand Theft Auto III — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Grand Theft Auto III.
Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City includes both The Lost and Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony together and does not require a copy of the original Grand Theft Auto IV to play.
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Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition
Single-player alternative to Grand Theft Auto III — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Grand Theft Auto III.
Niko Bellic, Johnny Klebitz and Luis Lopez all have one thing in common - they live in the worst city in America. Liberty City worships money and status, and is heaven for those who have them and a living nightmare for those who don't.
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Mafia II (Classic)
Single-player alternative to Grand Theft Auto III — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Grand Theft Auto III.
Vito Scaletta has started to make a name for himself on the streets of Empire Bay as someone who can be trusted to get a job done. Together with his buddy Joe, he is working to prove himself to the Mafia, quickly escalating up the family ladder with crimes of larger reward, status and consequence… the life as a wise guy isn’t quite as...
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Flashing Lights - Police, Firefighting, Emergency Services (EMS) Simulator
Single-player alternative to Grand Theft Auto III — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Grand Theft Auto III.
Play solo or in up to 10-player multiplayer co-op! Flashing Lights is an open world police, firefighting and EMS simulator game with plenty of opportunity for role-play or more relaxed fun with friends. Become the law or save lives! Discover leagues of player-created mods!
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Vivat Slovakia
Single-player alternative to Grand Theft Auto III — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Grand Theft Auto III.
Vivat Slovakia is an open-world action game set in '90s Slovakia, where corruption runs deep and law enforcement is weak. Uncover a gripping story based on true events as you explore and shoot your way through a city at the crossroads of Eastern Europe’s turbulent history.
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Mafia: Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Grand Theft Auto III — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Grand Theft Auto III.
An inadvertent brush with the mob thrusts cabdriver Tommy Angelo into the world of organized crime. Initially uneasy about falling in with the Salieri family, the rewards become too big to ignore.
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Grand Theft Auto V Legacy
Single-player alternative to Grand Theft Auto III — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Grand Theft Auto III.
Grand Theft Auto V for PC offers players the option to explore the award-winning world of Los Santos and Blaine County in resolutions of up to 4k and beyond, as well as the chance to experience the game running at 60 frames per second.
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Bus Driver
Single-player alternative to Grand Theft Auto III — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
In Bus Driver, your job is to transport passengers around an attractive and realistic city. You must drive to a timetable on a planned route, whilst obeying traffic rules, and taking care not to upset or injure your passengers.
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Shenmue I & II
Single-player alternative to Grand Theft Auto III — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Grand Theft Auto III.
SEGA®’s most requested re-release of all time finally comes to a new generation. Shenmue delivers an epic story of revenge within a unique open world that is still unrivalled in depth and detail. Return to the epic saga that defined modern gaming. The saga begins…again.
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Shenmue III
Single-player alternative to Grand Theft Auto III — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Grand Theft Auto III.
Shenmue III sees the eagerly anticipated continuation of the epic story-driven saga. Take control of Ryo Hazuki, a teenage martial artist, determined to unravel the mystery behind his father's murder and to exact revenge on the killer.
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Red Dead Redemption
Single-player alternative to Grand Theft Auto III — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Grand Theft Auto III.
Experience the story of former outlaw John Marston as he tracks down the last remaining members of the notorious Van der Linde Gang in the PC debut of the critically acclaimed predecessor to Red Dead Redemption 2.
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NINJA GAIDEN 2 Black
Single-player alternative to Grand Theft Auto III — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Grand Theft Auto III.
Using Unreal Engine 5 to significantly enhance graphic expression, this is the definitive version of "NINJA GAIDEN 2," featuring additional playable characters and enhanced battle support functions.
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Red Dead Redemption 2
Single-player alternative to Grand Theft Auto III — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Grand Theft Auto III.
Arthur Morgan and the Van der Linde Gang are outlaws on the run. With federal agents and bounty hunters massing on their heels, the gang must rob, steal, and fight their way across the rugged heartland in order to survive.
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Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – The Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Grand Theft Auto III — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Grand Theft Auto III.
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas: It’s the early ’90s. After a couple of cops frame him for homicide, Carl ‘CJ’ Johnson is forced on a journey that takes him across the entire state of San Andreas, to save his family and to take control of the streets.
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Grand Theft Auto: Vice City – The Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Grand Theft Auto III — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Grand Theft Auto III.
Welcome to the 1980s. From the decade of big hair and pastel suits comes the story of one man's rise to the top of the criminal pile. Grand Theft Auto returns with Tommy Vercetti’s tale of betrayal and revenge in a neon-soaked tropical town full of excess and brimming with possibilities.
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Grand Theft Auto III – The Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Grand Theft Auto III — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Grand Theft Auto III.
It all starts in Liberty City. With revolutionary freedom to go anywhere and jack anyone, Grand Theft Auto III puts the center of the criminal underworld at your fingertips, if you have enough guts to take it.