Single-player games like Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, 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: San Andreas — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
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 III
Single-player alternative to Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
Welcome to Liberty City. Where it all began. With stellar voice acting, a darkly comic storyline, a stunning soundtrack and revolutionary open-world gameplay, Grand Theft Auto III is the game that defined the open world genre for a generation.
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Saints Row 2
Single-player alternative to Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
Saints Row 2 brings true freedom to open-world gaming. Players can play as who they want, how they want, and with whomever they want in this sequel to the much acclaimed and tremendously successful Saints Row.
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Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
The Definitive Edition of the critically acclaimed, award winning open-world action adventure, reworked, rebuilt and re-mastered for the new generation. With all previously available DLC included and a wealth of tech and visual improvements, Hong Kong has never felt so alive.
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Mafia II (Classic)
Single-player alternative to Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
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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Cyberpunk 2077
Single-player alternative to Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Cyberpunk 2077 is an open-world, action-adventure RPG set in the dark future of Night City — a dangerous megalopolis obsessed with power, glamor, and ceaseless body modification.
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Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit
Single-player alternative to Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Need for Speed Hot Pursuit launches you into a new open-world landscape behind the wheel of the world's fastest and most beautiful cars. From Criterion, the award-winning studio behind the Burnout series, Hot Pursuit will redefine racing games for a whole new generation.
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Driver® Parallel Lines
Single-player alternative to Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
You were the fastest wheelman on the street. You were a legend. You were money. Until they set you up and sent you down. Twenty-eight years inside for someone else's crime. Now you're getting out. Guess what? You got a new job, it's called getting revenge.
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Red Dead Redemption
Single-player alternative to Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
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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Red Dead Redemption 2
Single-player alternative to Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
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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Resident Evil 4
Single-player alternative to Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
Survival is just the beginning. Six years have passed since the biological disaster in Raccoon City. Leon S. Kennedy, one of the survivors, tracks the president's kidnapped daughter to a secluded European village, where there is something terribly wrong with the locals.
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Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – The Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
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: San Andreas — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
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: San Andreas — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
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.