Games like Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition
If Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition is your kind of game, the closest matches are Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its characters are well developed, liberty city feels alive and writing quality is exceptional. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition brings Rockstar North and Rockstar Toronto's acclaimed open-world crime saga to a modern audience, set in the sprawling metropolis of Liberty City. Players explore a vast urban environment with vehicle physics that emphasize realism, while the narrative unfolds through voice-acting-driven storylines featuring multiple distinct characters. The 2020 release delivers both single-player and multiplayer modes within a world that revolves around crime, status, and moral compromise. Reviewers highlight that the characters are well-developed, and many players feel Liberty City feels alive with its dense atmosphere and activity. The Complete Edition runs as Playable on Steam Deck and holds a Metacritic score of 90, with 81% positive reviews from over 69,000 Steam players at its current price of $19.99.
About Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition: 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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Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced
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Shares open world exploration and a dark mood with Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition.
Top pick for Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition.
Experience entertainment blockbusters Grand Theft Auto V and Grand Theft Auto Online — now upgraded for a new generation with stunning visuals, faster loading, 3D audio, and more, plus exclusive content for GTA Online players.
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
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Shares an immersive mood with Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition.
Second-strongest match for Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition.
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.
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
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Shares an immersive mood with Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition.
Third-strongest match for Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition.
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.
Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City
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Shares a dark mood with Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition.
Ranked #4 for Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition.
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.
Flashing Lights - Police, Firefighting, Emergency Services (EMS) Simulator
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Shares an immersive mood with Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition.
Ranked #5 for Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition.
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!
Mafia II (Classic)
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Shares open world exploration and an immersive mood with Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition.
Ranked #6 for Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition.
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...
Saints Row 2
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Ranked #7 for Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition.
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.
Saints Row: The Third
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Ranked #8 for Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition.
Get ready for the most out-landish gameplay scenarios ever seen as the Third Street Saints take on the Syndicate!
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Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced
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Shares open world exploration and a dark mood with Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition.
Reviewers of Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition.
Experience entertainment blockbusters Grand Theft Auto V and Grand Theft Auto Online — now upgraded for a new generation with stunning visuals, faster loading, 3D audio, and more, plus exclusive content for GTA Online players.
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
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Shares an immersive mood with Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition.
Reviewers of Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition.
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.
Mafia: Definitive Edition
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Shares a dark mood with Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition.
Reviewers of Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition.
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.
Red Dead Redemption 2
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Shares open world exploration and an immersive mood with Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition.
Reviewers of Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition.
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.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition at current Steam store prices.
Terraria
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Priced ~50% under Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Lethal Company
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Priced ~50% under Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
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Priced ~50% under Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition on Steam right now. Shares Action with Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
People Playground
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Priced ~50% under Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition on Steam right now. Shares Action with Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Portal 2
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Priced ~50% under Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition.
The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!
Fallout: New Vegas
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Priced ~50% under Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition on Steam right now. Shares Action with Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~75% under Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition on Steam right now. Shares Action with Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
R.E.P.O.
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Priced ~65% under Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition on Steam right now. Shares Action with Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
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Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
STRAFTAT
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
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Grand Theft Auto V Legacy
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Shares a dark mood with Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition.
Another title from Rockstar North, the studio behind Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition. Shares Action and Adventure with Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition.
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.
Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced
WHY THIS
Shares open world exploration and a dark mood with Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition.
Another title from Rockstar North, the studio behind Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition. Shares Action and Adventure with Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition.
Experience entertainment blockbusters Grand Theft Auto V and Grand Theft Auto Online — now upgraded for a new generation with stunning visuals, faster loading, 3D audio, and more, plus exclusive content for GTA Online players.
Manhunt
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition.
Another title from Rockstar North, the studio behind Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition. Shares Action with Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition.
You awake to the sound of your own panicked breath. In Manhunt, you must run, hide and fight to survive. If you can stay alive long enough, you may find out who did this to you. This is a brutal blood sport.
Frequently asked about Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition
- Does Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition run on Steam Deck?
- Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition cost?
- Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player).
- What games are most similar to Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition are Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
- Who developed Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition?
- Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition was developed by Rockstar North, Rockstar Toronto and published by Rockstar Games.
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