Single-player games like Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition, 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 V Enhanced
Single-player alternative to Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Single-player alternative to Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
Single-player alternative to Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City
Single-player alternative to Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Flashing Lights - Police, Firefighting, Emergency Services (EMS) Simulator
Single-player alternative to Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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!
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Mafia II (Classic)
Single-player alternative to Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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...
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Saints Row 2
Single-player alternative to Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Saints Row: The Third
Single-player alternative to Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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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Mafia: Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Red Dead Redemption 2
Single-player alternative to Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Grand Theft Auto V Legacy
Single-player alternative to Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Manhunt
Single-player alternative to Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.