Games like Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – The Definitive Edition
If Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – The Definitive Edition is your kind of game, the closest matches are Mafia II: Definitive Edition, Mafia: Definitive Edition and Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its bandas sonoras are excellent, nostalgia factor is strong and story line is great. 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: San Andreas – The Definitive Edition is an action-adventure game developed and published by Rockstar Games, released in 2023 at $59.99. Set in the early 1990s, the title casts players as CJ Johnson navigating the streets and countryside of San Andreas. The game features character customization, melee combat, open-world traversal, a radio music system, and numerous side missions alongside its central storyline. Players describe the experience as cinematic, epic, and grand, with reviewers highlighting that the soundtrack is excellent and the world feels absolutely gargantuan. Many also note a strong nostalgia factor, considering the story line is great. The game is marked as playable on Steam Deck and supports solo play only. It holds a 78% positive rating from 4,299 Steam reviews.
About Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – 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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Mafia II: Definitive Edition
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Shares a nostalgic mood with Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – The Definitive Edition.
Top pick for Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – The Definitive Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – 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.
Mafia: Definitive Edition
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Shares a cinematic mood with Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – The Definitive Edition.
Second-strongest match for Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – The Definitive Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – 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.
Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City
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Shares an epic mood with Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – The Definitive Edition.
Third-strongest match for Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – The Definitive Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – The Definitive 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.
Vivat Slovakia
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Shares a nostalgic mood with Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – The Definitive Edition.
Ranked #4 for Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – The Definitive Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – 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.
Grand Theft Auto III
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Ranked #5 for Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – The Definitive Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – 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.
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
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Shares an epic mood with Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – The Definitive Edition.
Ranked #6 for Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – The Definitive Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – 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.
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
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Shares radio music, open world traversal and a grand mood with Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – The Definitive Edition.
Ranked #7 for Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – The Definitive Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – 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.
Yakuza 0
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Ranked #8 for Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – The Definitive Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – The Definitive Edition.
SEGA’s legendary Japanese series finally comes to PC. Fight like hell through Tokyo and Osaka as junior yakuza Kiryu and Majima. Take a front row seat to 1980s life in Japan in an experience unlike anything else in video gaming, with uncapped framerates and 4K resolutions. A legend is born.
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Priced ~83% under Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – The Definitive Edition on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – The Definitive Edition.
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Phasmophobia
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Priced ~67% under Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – The Definitive Edition on Steam right now. Shares Action with Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – The Definitive Edition.
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Lethal Company
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Left 4 Dead 2
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Priced ~83% under Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – The Definitive Edition on Steam right now. Shares Action with Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – The Definitive Edition.
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Subnautica
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Priced ~50% under Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – The Definitive Edition on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – The Definitive Edition.
Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.
Hollow Knight
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Priced ~75% under Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – The Definitive Edition on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – The Definitive Edition.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
The Forest
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Priced ~67% under Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – The Definitive Edition on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – The Definitive Edition.
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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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: San Andreas – The Definitive Edition.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – The Definitive Edition.
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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: San Andreas – The Definitive Edition.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – The Definitive Edition.
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Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
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Red Dead Redemption 2
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Another title from Rockstar Games, the studio behind Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – The Definitive Edition. Shares Action and Adventure with Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – The Definitive Edition.
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Shares radio music, open world traversal and a grand mood with Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – The Definitive Edition.
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Shares an epic mood with Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – The Definitive Edition.
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Red Dead Redemption
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Shares a cinematic mood with Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – The Definitive Edition.
Another title from Rockstar Games, the studio behind Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – The Definitive Edition. Shares Action with Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – The Definitive Edition.
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Grand Theft Auto III
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Another title from Rockstar Games, the studio behind Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – The Definitive Edition. Shares Action and Adventure with Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – 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.
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City – The Definitive Edition
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Shares a nostalgic mood with Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – The Definitive Edition.
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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.
Grand Theft Auto III – The Definitive Edition
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Another title from Rockstar Games, the studio behind Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – The Definitive Edition. Shares Action and Adventure with Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – 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.
Frequently asked about Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – The Definitive Edition
- Does Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – The Definitive Edition run on Steam Deck?
- Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – The Definitive 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: San Andreas – The Definitive Edition cost?
- Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – The Definitive Edition is listed on Steam at 59.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – The Definitive Edition?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – The Definitive Edition are Mafia II: Definitive Edition, Mafia: Definitive Edition, Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City.
- Who developed Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – The Definitive Edition?
- Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – The Definitive Edition was developed by Rockstar Games.
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