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Games like Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
10 games similar to Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, a Racing, Shooter, Adventure, Arcade game, drawn from IGDB's similarity data. Each pick below notes the genres it shares with Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.
01Shares AdventureRacingVice City Stories returns to the same 1980s Vice City setting, preserving the open-world sandbox structure and action-driven campaign of the original. Both games emphasize carjacking, car chases, and corrupt government entanglement across their storylines. Vice City Stories shifts perspective to Vic Vance's rise through crime, offering a prequel that shares the series' signature blend of third-person action, black market dealings, and period atmosphere.
02Shares AdventureRacingBoth games are open-world crime sandboxes where you play a mobster clawing back power in a corrupt city. Liberty City Stories shares Vice City's third-person perspective, mission-based campaign structure, and arsenal of vehicles and weapons. The storytelling tone is equally comedic and dark, with radio stations and period-appropriate music anchoring each game's atmosphere. Both emphasize carjacking, bribery, and navigating rival criminal factions.
03Shares AdventureRacingShooterGrand Theft Auto V expands the open-world sandbox formula that Vice City pioneered, letting you carjack vehicles, engage in crime sprees, and navigate a sprawling city filled with dark humor and satirical characters. Both games center on antiheroes climbing criminal hierarchies through action-driven campaigns, and both use radio stations and period-appropriate music to build atmosphere across their detailed urban environments.
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04Shares AdventureRacingShooterBoth games drop you into a sprawling open-world sandbox where crime and ambition drive the story forward. Like Vice City's Tommy Vercetti, San Andreas' Carl Johnson must fight corrupt authorities and rival gangs to reclaim control of his city, using vehicles, weapons, and brutal tactics. The third-person perspective, arcade sensibility, and 1980s-90s setting create a similar tone of stylized urban chaos and dark comedy.
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05Shares AdventureShooterBoth games drop you into a sprawling open-world sandbox where carjacking, car chases, and crime missions form the core loop. Like Vice City's rise-from-nothing story, Watch Dogs 2 has you working with a crew to take down a corrupt system controlling the city. Third-person action, destructible environments, and a cast of colorful characters give both games that same anarchic energy and satirical bite.
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06Shares AdventureRacingShooterGrand Theft Auto IV carries forward Vice City's open-world crime sandbox, where you navigate a sprawling city on foot or by vehicle while building a criminal empire. Both games emphasize action through car chases, gang warfare, and police pursuits, with notoriety systems that escalate your heat. The third-person perspective and day-night cycle create the same immersive urban atmosphere, though IV shifts the setting from 1980s Miami to contemporary Liberty City.
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07Shares AdventureShooterChinatown Wars transplants the open-world crime sandbox formula to Liberty City, letting you carjack vehicles, deal in black markets, and navigate gang warfare through a sprawling urban map. Like Vice City, it pairs dark humor with brutal action and features a protagonist climbing the criminal hierarchy after arriving in a corrupt city. The day-night cycle and radio stations reinforce that same 1980s crime-drama atmosphere.
08Shares AdventureRacingShooterGrand Theft Auto shares Vice City's sandbox crime structure where you build notoriety through carjacking, murder, and other illegal acts while working for organized crime figures. Both games feature dark humor and explosive action across open worlds, though the original uses an isometric perspective and simpler mission structure compared to Vice City's narrative-driven campaign through a single sprawling city.
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09Shares AdventureRacingShooterGrand Theft Auto III shares Vice City's open-world sandbox structure where you build criminal power through missions while navigating gang territories and a notoriety system. Both games feature in-game radio stations, diverse vehicles from sports cars to unconventional rides, and a day/night cycle that shapes the city's atmosphere. The core appeal remains the same: freedom to pursue story missions or cause chaos in a fully realized urban environment.
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10Shares AdventureRacingShooterBoth games center on rising through organized crime in an open-world American city, with story-driven campaigns where you complete missions for mob contacts. Each features era-appropriate vehicles, radio stations, and a wanted system that escalates police response. The cover-based shooting and driving mechanics in Mafia II refine the action-adventure formula Vice City established, maintaining the same blend of crime narrative and sandbox freedom.
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Most of these games share Open world, Action, Adventure, Sandbox and Racing with Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, based on IGDB's similarity data. Each pick has a short note explaining what it has in common with Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.