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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Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City
Single-player alternative to Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
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: San Andreas — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
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: 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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Flashing Lights - Police, Firefighting, Emergency Services (EMS) Simulator
Single-player alternative to Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
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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It's Only Money
Single-player alternative to Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
The mayor of Rockhaven threw you down a hole into the Undercity. Why? Net worth too low. In this open-world simulation, you and up to 3 pals will steal, fight, and scheme to reclaim the city. Customise your rides, buy businesses, and take on the Mayor’s forces. Rockhaven is yours for the taking!
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Responding
Single-player alternative to Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
Responding is an upcoming open-world Emergency Services simulator sandbox that offers a realistic and in-depth Police, Fire, and EMS experience that is set in a fictional version of New York State.
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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.