Single-player games like Grand Theft Auto: Vice City – The Definitive Edition
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Grand Theft Auto: Vice City – The Definitive 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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Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Single-player alternative to Grand Theft Auto: Vice City – The Definitive Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Grand Theft Auto: Vice City – The Definitive 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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Mafia: Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Grand Theft Auto: Vice City – The Definitive Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Grand Theft Auto: Vice City – The Definitive 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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Grand Theft Auto III
Single-player alternative to Grand Theft Auto: Vice City – The Definitive Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Grand Theft Auto: Vice City – The Definitive Edition.
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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Mafia II: Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Grand Theft Auto: Vice City – The Definitive Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Grand Theft Auto: Vice City – The Definitive Edition.
War hero Vito Scaletta becomes entangled with the mob in hopes of paying his father’s debts. Vito works to prove himself, climbing the family ladder with crimes of larger reward and consequence.
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Vivat Slovakia
Single-player alternative to Grand Theft Auto: Vice City – The Definitive Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Grand Theft Auto: Vice City – The Definitive Edition.
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
Single-player alternative to Grand Theft Auto: Vice City – The Definitive Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Grand Theft Auto: Vice City – The Definitive Edition.
It’s 1930. After an inadvertent brush with the mafia, cabdriver Tommy Angelo is reluctantly thrust into the world of organized crime. Initially, he is uneasy about falling in with the Salieri family, but soon the rewards become too big to ignore.
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Yakuza Kiwami 2 (Legacy)
Single-player alternative to Grand Theft Auto: Vice City – The Definitive Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Grand Theft Auto: Vice City – The Definitive Edition.
Kazuma Kiryu, the Dragon of Dojima, must face the ambitious Ryuji Goda, the Dragon of Kansai, in an all-out war between two rival yakuza clans. An extreme recreation of one of Yakuza’s most beloved entries, now in stunning 4K and unlocked framerates. There can be only one dragon.
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Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
Single-player alternative to Grand Theft Auto: Vice City – The Definitive Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Grand Theft Auto: Vice City – The Definitive 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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Red Dead Redemption 2
Single-player alternative to Grand Theft Auto: Vice City – The Definitive Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Grand Theft Auto: Vice City – The Definitive 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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Red Dead Redemption
Single-player alternative to Grand Theft Auto: Vice City – The Definitive Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Grand Theft Auto: Vice City – The Definitive Edition.
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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Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – The Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Grand Theft Auto: Vice City – The Definitive Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Grand Theft Auto: Vice City – The Definitive Edition.
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 III – The Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Grand Theft Auto: Vice City – The Definitive Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Grand Theft Auto: Vice City – The Definitive Edition.
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.