How to Play Every GTA Game Today, Legally
Every GTA game checked against current stores, subscriptions and backward compatibility, with US prices: what you can still buy, and what is gone.
We checked 16 Grand Theft Auto entries against US stores on Oct 11 2026. Ten can be bought and played legally today, GTA VI can only be pre-ordered, and five, all from the top-down and handheld eras, have no current storefront at all. This page lists each game against every legal route we could verify that day: a store listing with a price, a subscription library, or Microsoft's backward compatibility. Each claim carries its source, and we checked each store ourselves.
We do not link or describe emulators, ROM sites or any other unofficial copy. If a game is not sold, this page says so and stops there.
At a glance
| Question | Answer, Oct 11 2026 |
|---|---|
| Games with no current legal storefront | GTA (1997), London 1969/1961, GTA 2, GTA Advance, Vice City Stories |
| One subscription covering the most GTA games | GTA+ ($7.99 a month on Xbox and Steam), whose library includes GTA V, GTA Online, the Trilogy, Liberty City Stories and Chinatown Wars |
| GTA on Netflix | none; the last one left on Dec 12 2025 |
| GTA on Xbox Game Pass | none; GTA V left on Apr 15 2026, per Xbox Wire |
| GTA on PlayStation Plus | GTA V, in the Extra tier |
| Original PS2 versions on PS5 | none found in a PlayStation Store search |
What is counted, and how
"Legal ways" means a route offered by Rockstar or a platform holder: a store listing with a price or a free download, a subscription library, or a platform's official backward compatibility. Old discs and cartridges you already own still work on their own hardware, and we do not list that for each row.
Prices are US list prices on Oct 11 2026, with any sale price and its end date. We checked Steam through its public store data, the Microsoft Store and Nintendo eShop through their product pages, the Apple App Store through Apple's lookup service, Google Play through its listings, and the PlayStation Store, Rockstar Store, GTA+ and Netflix pages in a browser. The PlayStation Store returned "Access Denied" after a few searches. We did not push past that, so for PlayStation we rely on one search for "grand theft auto" and two product pages. The Microsoft backward compatibility list loads through scripts our tools could not read, so we used the Microsoft Store's own listings plus Xbox Wire's announcements.
The count: the table has 16 rows (the two GTA IV episodes share one, as they do on Steam). Five have no route and GTA VI is pre-order only, so 16 - 5 - 1 = 10 are playable today.
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Every game, every legal route
The table no other page on this site has: each game against the routes that exist today, checked Oct 11 2026.
| Game | Current legal ways to play (US) | Source |
|---|---|---|
| GTA (1997) | None found. Steam's store data returns nothing for its old app. | Steam app 12170 |
| London 1969 / 1961 | None found. | Steam search |
| GTA 2 | None found. Steam's store data returns nothing for its old app. | Steam app 12180 |
| GTA III | Classic PC version in Rockstar Store's "Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy", $29.99; original mobile port on the App Store, $4.99. Steam page exists with no purchase option. | Rockstar Store; App Store; Steam app 12100 |
| Vice City | Classic Trilogy bundle, $29.99 (PC); mobile port $4.99 on the App Store and Google Play. | Rockstar Store; App Store; Google Play |
| San Andreas | Classic Trilogy bundle, $29.99 (PC); mobile port $6.99 on the App Store and Google Play; original Xbox and Xbox 360 discs play on Xbox One and Series (Xbox Wire, 2018), but the Microsoft Store listing shows no price. | Rockstar Store; App Store; Google Play; Xbox Wire; Microsoft Store |
| GTA Advance | None found. | no listing found |
| Liberty City Stories | Mobile app, free with a 30-minute trial and a one-time in-app purchase (App Store and Google Play); unlocked by GTA+. | App Store; Google Play; GTA+ page |
| Vice City Stories | None found. Not in a PlayStation Store or Microsoft Store search. | PlayStation Store; Microsoft Store |
| GTA IV | Complete Edition, $19.99 on Steam and the Rockstar Store; Xbox 360 version on Xbox One and Series via backward compatibility, $6.99 on sale until Oct 22 2026, list price $19.99. | Steam; Rockstar Store; Microsoft Store; Xbox Wire, 2017 |
| The Lost and Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony | Inside GTA IV: Complete Edition on PC (Steam says it replaced the separate games from Mar 19 2020); Xbox 360 copies play on Xbox One under the 2017 backward compatibility listing. No standalone Microsoft Store listing found. | Steam app 12220; Xbox Wire, 2017 |
| Chinatown Wars | Mobile app, free trial plus in-app purchase (App Store and Google Play); unlocked by GTA+. | App Store; Google Play; GTA+ page |
| The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition | $59.99 on PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, Steam and Rockstar Store ($19.79 on PlayStation and Xbox on sale until Oct 22 2026, list price $59.99); in GTA+ on PlayStation, Xbox and PC; mobile apps sold by Rockstar. | stores; GTA+ page |
| GTA V | PS4 and PS5 bundle $39.99, also in PlayStation Plus Extra; Xbox One and Series bundle $19.99 on sale until Oct 22 2026, list price $39.99; PC Enhanced $29.99 on Steam; Rockstar Store $39.99; GTA V Story Mode in GTA+. | PlayStation Store; Microsoft Store; Steam; Rockstar Store; Newswire Jun 17 2026 |
| GTA Online | Included with GTA V; standalone $19.99 on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S; in GTA+. | PlayStation Store; Microsoft Store; GTA+ page |
| GTA VI | Pre-order only, $79.99 standard, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S, out Nov 19 2026. | FACTS F1, F3, F14 |
Of the 10 playable entries, five are in the GTA+ library in some form: GTA V, GTA Online, the Trilogy, Liberty City Stories and Chinatown Wars.
Three things the table shows
The top-down games, and two handheld ones, are gone. GTA (1997), London, GTA 2 and GTA Advance have no storefront. Steam's store data returns nothing for the old GTA and GTA 2 apps. Vice City Stories, a PSP and PS2 game, has no current listing we could find. That is five games, and four of them are top-down games.
Mobile is the only home of the classic handheld games. Liberty City Stories and Chinatown Wars are not sold on any console store we searched. Both live on as phone apps, and Rockstar's GTA+ page lists them as unlockable with a membership: download the app, choose "Unlock With GTA+", sign in.
Your old copy may already be upgraded. Rockstar's Jun 17 2026 Newswire post said that from Jun 18 2026, owners of any PS4 version or the digital Xbox One version of GTA V can upgrade to the PS5 or Xbox Series X|S version at no cost. PC owners get Enhanced for free alongside Legacy, per the Mar 4 2025 post. For the full version history of GTA V, see /library/gta-v-ps5-xbox-series-versions.
Subscriptions, checked Oct 11 2026
| Service | GTA titles included | Source |
|---|---|---|
| GTA+ ($7.99 a month on Xbox and Steam) | GTA V, GTA Online, the Trilogy (PlayStation, Xbox, PC), GTA III and Vice City Definitive (PC), Liberty City Stories and Chinatown Wars (mobile) | GTA+ page; Microsoft Store; Steam |
| PlayStation Plus Extra | GTA V (PS4 and PS5) | PlayStation Store product page |
| Xbox Game Pass | none; GTA V joined Apr 15 2025 and left Apr 15 2026 (Xbox Wire; store data shows Apr 16) | Xbox Wire, Microsoft Store data |
| Netflix | none; San Andreas Definitive left Dec 12 2025 | What's on Netflix; Netflix Help Center |
The Game Pass and PlayStation Plus history has its own page, /library/gta-game-pass-ps-plus-history. The Netflix story is at /library/gta-on-netflix.
What changed in the last five years
The classic PC trilogy is no longer sold on Steam, and Steam's 2008 San Andreas page reads "is no longer available on the Steam store". Rockstar brought the classics back as a $29.99 bundle on its own store, after its Nov 2021 apology (see /library/gta-trilogy-definitive-edition). GTA IV went the other way: in March 2020 the Complete Edition replaced the separate GTA IV and Episodes listings on Steam and is still $19.99. On Xbox, Microsoft's 2017 and 2018 backward compatibility additions still carry GTA IV for sale, while the San Andreas listing shows no price.
Trivia
- Xbox Wire's 2018 post says owners of the original Xbox San Andreas get upgraded to the Xbox 360 version on Xbox One, though their saves do not transfer.
- The App Store still sells the 2011 GTA III mobile port at $4.99.
- Netflix's US games list on Oct 11 2026 includes Rockstar's Red Dead Redemption but no GTA game.
- Steam's GTA IV page lists the Complete Edition's release as Mar 24 2020.
Sources
- Steam search, Grand Theft Auto, checked Oct 11 2026
- Steam: GTA III, San Andreas (2008), GTA IV Complete Edition, Episodes from Liberty City, GTA V Enhanced, GTA+, checked Oct 11 2026
- Microsoft Store search, Grand Theft Auto, checked Oct 11 2026
- Microsoft Store, GTA+ (Xbox Series X|S), checked Oct 11 2026
- PlayStation Store search, grand theft auto, GTA V (PS4 & PS5), Trilogy, checked Oct 11 2026
- Rockstar Store search, checked Oct 11 2026
- Rockstar Games, GTA+ benefits, checked Oct 11 2026
- App Store: GTA III, Vice City, San Andreas, Liberty City Stories, Chinatown Wars, checked Oct 11 2026
- Google Play: Liberty City Stories, Chinatown Wars, Vice City, San Andreas, checked Oct 11 2026
- Nintendo eShop, The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition, checked Oct 11 2026
- Xbox Wire, GTA IV backward compatibility, Feb 9 2017
- Xbox Wire, Rockstar Classics backward compatibility, Jun 7 2018
- Rockstar Newswire, Free Upgrade for GTA V on PC, Mar 4 2025
- Rockstar Newswire, The Next Big Score, Jun 17 2026
- What's on Netflix, San Andreas set to leave, Nov 25 2025
- Netflix Help Center, games list, checked Oct 11 2026
- GTA VI Forum FACTS.md, F1, F3, F14