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Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City cover art

Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City

Rockstar North / Toronto · Rockstar Games · 2010-04-12

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Action

Franchise: Grand Theft Auto · Modes: Single player, Multiplayer · Perspectives: Third person

Releases: Apr 16, 2010 (PlayStation 3), Oct 29, 2009 (Xbox 360), Apr 13, 2010 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

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.

Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City is an Action game released in 2010, with an estimated 2,000,000 .. 5,000,000 owners and a Mostly Positive sentiment (74% of 10072 reviews).

0
playing now
74%
positive of 10k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
2,000,000–5,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
84/100
critic score (7 outlets, IGDB)
81/100
IGDB user rating (138 ratings)
42h
to beat · completionist 30h
silver
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 02:00 UTC (census sample)

Grand Theft Auto (GTA) is an action-adventure video game series created by David Jones and Mike Dailly. Later titles were developed under the oversight of brothers Dan and Sam Houser, Leslie Benzies and Aaron Garbut. It is primarily developed by British development house Rockstar North, and published by its American parent company, Rockstar Games. The name of the series is a term for motor vehicle theft in the United States.

Trailer

Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City trailer thumbnail

Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City Trailer: You'll Always Be the King of this Town

≈385,569 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Dormant
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 0 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~0/week).
  • · No new reviews since week of 2020-03-01.
  • · Top 5% of 27,841 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 403k–806k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 10,071 total reviews — how this is computed.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
25525520172026Week of 2017-08-01: 55 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2017-09-01: 53 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 75 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 70 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 28 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 73 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 38 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 54 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 51 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 31 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 53 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 64 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 30 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 61 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 37 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 82 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 49 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 29 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 60 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 85 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 27 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 117 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 40 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 107 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 121 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 158 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 44 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 255 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 62 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 111 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 8 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

002026-09-15 11:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 20:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 11:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 18:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 02:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 23:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 14:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 13:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-15 02:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$49.99$2.832015-01-012025-06-262015-01-01 — best price $2.832015-01-20 — best price $17.362015-03-02 — best price $4.192015-03-19 — best price $4.992015-04-10 — best price $6.002015-04-16 — best price $19.992015-05-15 — best price $17.102015-06-22 — best price $19.992015-09-25 — best price $5.172015-11-10 — best price $19.992015-12-08 — best price $19.992015-12-23 — best price $5.002016-01-04 — best price $19.992016-02-08 — best price $18.592016-02-22 — best price $4.162016-04-12 — best price $14.992016-06-23 — best price $4.992016-08-19 — best price $7.002016-09-26 — best price $16.992016-11-23 — best price $5.252017-01-02 — best price $19.992017-04-09 — best price $7.002017-06-06 — best price $19.992017-06-27 — best price $19.992017-08-08 — best price $19.992017-10-12 — best price $6.992017-10-28 — best price $18.472017-11-16 — best price $6.992018-01-04 — best price $19.992018-03-20 — best price $6.992018-05-06 — best price $19.992018-07-05 — best price $19.992018-09-10 — best price $19.992018-11-27 — best price $19.992019-02-04 — best price $6.992019-05-27 — best price $19.992019-09-17 — best price $19.992019-12-03 — best price $19.992020-02-06 — best price $19.992025-06-26 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

17k3.2k2026-06-02 — 3,418 pageviews2026-06-06 — 3,639 pageviews2026-06-10 — 3,452 pageviews2026-06-14 — 3,417 pageviews2026-06-18 — 8,338 pageviews2026-06-22 — 6,223 pageviews2026-06-26 — 12,761 pageviews2026-06-30 — 7,983 pageviews2026-07-04 — 6,194 pageviews2026-07-08 — 6,120 pageviews2026-07-12 — 4,424 pageviews2026-07-16 — 4,516 pageviews2026-07-20 — 3,977 pageviews2026-07-24 — 3,993 pageviews2026-07-28 — 3,879 pageviews2026-08-01 — 3,706 pageviews2026-08-05 — 3,566 pageviews2026-08-09 — 4,111 pageviews2026-08-13 — 3,566 pageviews2026-08-17 — 3,647 pageviews2026-08-21 — 5,062 pageviews2026-08-25 — 5,654 pageviews2026-08-29 — 17,456 pageviews2026-09-02 — 9,417 pageviews2026-09-06 — 7,839 pageviews2026-09-10 — 5,583 pageviews2026-09-14 — 4,785 pageviews2026-09-18 — 4,890 pageviews2026-09-22 — 4,302 pageviews2026-09-26 — 4,165 pageviews2026-09-30 — 3,641 pageviews2026-10-04 — 4,266 pageviews2026-10-08 — 4,183 pageviews2026-10-12 — 4,202 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-player

4 supported languages: English, French, German, Italian

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

CrimeActionMatureNudityDrivingSandboxShooterAdventureOpen WorldMultiplayer

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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