10 games similar to Grand Theft Auto V, a Racing, Shooter, Adventure game, drawn from IGDB's similarity data. Each pick below notes the genres it shares with Grand Theft Auto V.
01Shares AdventureRacingShooterVice City shares GTA V's open-world sandbox structure where you play as a criminal rising through organized crime, completing missions across a sprawling city while evading police and building notoriety. Both games blend dark humor with vehicular combat, shooting, and racing across diverse neighborhoods. Vice City strips the formula to its essentials: a single protagonist's story of survival and takeover in a corrupt metropolis.
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02Shares AdventureRacingShooterSan Andreas shares GTA V's sprawling open-world structure where you play as a criminal navigating corrupt police, gang violence, and organized crime across a massive state. Both games let you switch between different perspectives and modes of play, from shootouts to vehicular combat, while building respect through criminal enterprises. The satirical tone targeting wealth and power remains central to both stories.
Games like Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas →
03Shares AdventureShooterWatch Dogs 2 shares Grand Theft Auto V's open-world sandbox structure set in a struggling metropolis, where you navigate a massive city on foot and in vehicles while engaging in real-time combat and stealth kills. Both games emphasize player agency through multiple approaches to missions, feature a kill feed, and let you explore neighborhoods across a sprawling map filled with secrets and side activities.
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04Shares AdventureRacingShooterBoth games drop you into crime-driven open worlds where you play as criminals navigating law enforcement and rival gangs. Mafia II shares GTA V's third-person perspective, vehicular gameplay, and cover-based shooting across a detailed city. Where GTA V juggles three protagonists, Mafia II follows Vito's rise through organized crime with similar dark humor and a wanted system that escalates police response based on your actions.
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05Shares ShooterMax Payne 3 shares GTA V's third-person action focus and gritty urban setting marked by poverty and violence. Both games center on morally compromised protagonists navigating crime-soaked narratives, with seamless transitions between cutscenes and real-time combat. Max Payne 3 strips away the open world for a linear shooter, but maintains the same hard-boiled tone and kill-focused gameplay that defines GTA V's action sequences.
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06Shares AdventureShooterBoth games drop you into vast open worlds where you orchestrate criminal operations across multiple missions, with animal companions and radio-guided support adding personality to your schemes. Metal Gear Solid V shares GTA V's focus on player freedom within sandbox environments, letting you approach objectives through stealth or direct action. The 1980s setting and capitalism critique give it similar satirical edge, though Metal Gear leans harder into tactical gameplay than GTA's action-comedy blend.
Games like Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain →
07Shares AdventureShooterBoth games set you loose in a sprawling open city where poverty and inequality fuel the story. Like Grand Theft Auto V, Watch Dogs emphasizes real-time combat and vehicular action within a sandbox where you play a morally compromised protagonist seeking revenge. The kill feed and stealth mechanics give Watch Dogs a different tactical flavor, but the core appeal remains the same: using the city itself as your playground for justice on your own terms.
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08Shares AdventureRacingVice City Stories shares GTA V's open-world sandbox structure where you play as a criminal protagonist navigating organized crime. Both games emphasize vehicular gameplay with useable cars and motorcycles, combine action with dark humor, and feature notoriety systems that track your law-breaking. Vice City Stories condenses that formula into a tighter, handheld experience set in 1984 Vice City, maintaining the series' core appeal of crime-driven storytelling and freedom.
09Shares AdventureRacingShooterGrand Theft Auto IV shares the same open-world crime sandbox where you play as a villain navigating poverty, murder, and organized crime through vehicular and hand-to-hand combat. Like GTA V, it grounds its action in political satire and real consequences, with a notoriety system that brings police heat. Both games use in-game radio and banter to build their worlds, though IV focuses on a single protagonist's story rather than V's three-character structure.
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10Shares ShooterBoth games drop you into vast open worlds where survival means making morally compromised choices. Like Grand Theft Auto V, Fallout 4 lets you tackle objectives through multiple approaches, whether stealthily or guns blazing, and both feature animal companions alongside real-time combat. The sandbox structure rewards exploration and personal playstyle, though Fallout 4 trades urban crime for post-apocalyptic survival.
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10 games similar to Grand Theft Auto V: Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Watch Dogs 2, Mafia II, Max Payne 3, Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, Watch Dogs, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories.
Most of these games share Action, Open world, Shooter, Adventure and Sandbox with Grand Theft Auto V, based on IGDB's similarity data. Each pick has a short note explaining what it has in common with Grand Theft Auto V.