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Games like Grand Theft Auto III
10 games similar to Grand Theft Auto III, a Racing, Simulator, Shooter, Adventure game, drawn from IGDB's similarity data. Each pick below notes the genres it shares with Grand Theft Auto III.
01Shares AdventureRacingShooterGrand Theft Auto IV returns to the open-world crime sandbox that defined GTA III, letting you navigate a sprawling city on foot or by vehicle while building notoriety through theft, violence, and gang warfare. Like its predecessor, it layers a revenge-driven narrative onto nonlinear gameplay, complete with a day/night cycle, in-game radio, and a notoriety system that tracks your criminal standing across the city's underworld.
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02Shares AdventureRacingShooterThe original Grand Theft Auto establishes the sandbox crime formula that GTA III perfects. Both drop you into an open city where you take jobs for mob bosses, earn money through carjacking and violence, and navigate a notoriety system that tracks your crimes. GTA trades III's 3D perspective for isometric view, but the core appeal remains: freedom to pursue missions or cause chaos in a living criminal underworld.
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03Shares AdventureRacingShooterVice City refines the open-world crime formula that defined GTA III, letting you build a criminal empire across a fully realized 1980s city. Both games structure missions around organized crime and gang warfare, with a notoriety system that tracks your wanted level as you steal vehicles and commit heists. The day/night cycle, in-game radio stations, and sandbox freedom remain central to the experience.
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04Shares AdventureRacingShooterBoth games drop you into sprawling open cities where crime pays and consequences follow. Grand Theft Auto V expands the formula with three playable criminals navigating organized crime, gangs, and economic desperation across Los Santos. Like Grand Theft Auto III, it blends narrative-driven missions with sandbox freedom, in-game radio, and a notoriety system that tracks your criminal reputation as you rob, steal, and survive.
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05Shares RacingShooterGrand Theft Auto 2 shares the open-world crime sandbox where you freely explore a city completing missions for various criminal factions. Both games build notoriety through illegal activities like carjacking and violence, with a day/night cycle and economy driven by gangs and corruption. GTA 2's isometric perspective and arcade driving physics offer a different angle on the same anarchic formula that defined GTA III.
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06Shares AdventureShooterWatch Dogs 2 shares the open-world sandbox structure of Grand Theft Auto III, letting you explore a massive city and tackle missions across a living environment. Both games emphasize crime and anarchism as core themes, with protagonists working against corrupt systems. Where GTA III focused on organized crime, Watch Dogs 2 channels that same rebellious energy through hacking and digital sabotage, maintaining the action-driven, third-person gameplay that defined the original.
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07Shares AdventureShooterBoth games drop you into sprawling open cities where organized crime dominates the streets. Like Grand Theft Auto III, Sleeping Dogs emphasizes sandbox freedom across driving, combat, and exploration, with in-game radio and a notoriety system that tracks your criminal standing. The core difference: Sleeping Dogs prioritizes martial arts brawling over gunplay, but the structure of rising through gang ranks while navigating a corrupt underworld remains fundamentally similar.
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08Shares AdventureRacingShooterSan Andreas extends the open-world crime formula that defined Grand Theft Auto III, letting you build gang respect across an entire state rather than a single city. Both games center on betrayal and survival in corrupt environments filled with drugs, gangs, and organized crime. San Andreas adds a deeper narrative arc as you rebuild your criminal empire, maintaining the third-person sandbox structure and controversial tone that made the original so distinctive.
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09Shares AdventureRacingVice City Stories returns to the open-world crime sandbox that defined GTA III, with the same third-person perspective and notoriety system that tracks your wanted level as you rob, steal, and fight through a living city. Both games center on a protagonist climbing the organized crime ladder through missions tied to gangs and corrupt officials, backed by in-game radio and a day/night cycle that shapes the world around you.
10Shares AdventureRacingSimulatorBoth games drop you into an open world sandbox where you set your own agenda. Grand Theft Auto III chains you to a revenge narrative with crime and gangs; Dude Simulator 2 strips away the story entirely, letting you simply exist and explore. Where GTA III emphasizes action and mayhem, Dude Simulator 2 prioritizes freedom and comedy, but both share that core appeal of a living city waiting for you to do whatever comes next.
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10 games similar to Grand Theft Auto III: Grand Theft Auto IV, Grand Theft Auto, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Grand Theft Auto V, Grand Theft Auto 2, Watch Dogs 2, Sleeping Dogs, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
Most of these games share Open world, Action, Adventure, Racing and Shooter with Grand Theft Auto III, based on IGDB's similarity data. Each pick has a short note explaining what it has in common with Grand Theft Auto III.