Single-player games like Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – The Definitive Edition
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – 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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Ranked picks
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Mafia II: Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – The Definitive Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Mafia: Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – The Definitive Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City
Single-player alternative to Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – The Definitive Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Vivat Slovakia
Single-player alternative to Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – The Definitive Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Grand Theft Auto III
Single-player alternative to Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – The Definitive Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Single-player alternative to Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – The Definitive Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
Single-player alternative to Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – The Definitive Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Yakuza 0
Single-player alternative to Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – The Definitive Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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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Red Dead Redemption 2
Single-player alternative to Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – The Definitive Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – 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: San Andreas – The Definitive Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – 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: Vice City – The Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – The Definitive Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – The Definitive Edition.
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 – The Definitive Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.