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Grand Theft Auto III – The Definitive Edition

Rockstar Games · 2023-01-19

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ActionAdventure

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

Releases: Nov 11, 2021 (Nintendo Switch), Nov 11, 2021 (Xbox Series X|S), Nov 11, 2021 (Xbox One), Dec 14, 2023 (iOS), Dec 14, 2023 (Android), Nov 11, 2021 (PlayStation 5)

It all starts in Liberty City. With revolutionary freedom to go anywhere and jack anyone, Grand Theft Auto III puts the center of the criminal underworld at your fingertips, if you have enough guts to take it.

Grand Theft Auto III – The Definitive Edition is a 2023 Action and Adventure game priced at $59.99, with an estimated 500,000 to 1,000,000 owners and a Mixed review sentiment (66% of 7698 reviews).

137
playing now
66%
positive of 8.0k reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
500,000–1,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
58/100
IGDB user rating (54 ratings)
25h
time to beat (IGDB)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$59.99
steam price (US)

137 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 11:00 UTC (census sample)

Trailer

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Health check

Healthy
  • · 137 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 2,105 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~263/week).
  • · Review velocity up 41% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 5% of 27,649 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 160k–360k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 7,994 total reviews — how this is computed.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
32532520232026Week of 2023-01-01: 325 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 178 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 129 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 56 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 71 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 53 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 48 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 62 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 60 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 38 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 72 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 36 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 60 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 29 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 184 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 44 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 100 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 63 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 92 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 48 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 103 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 60 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 76 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 37 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 58 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 32 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 63 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 31 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 82 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 41 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 58 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 37 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 64 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 36 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 70 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 34 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 104 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 61 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 174 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 77 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 163 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 89 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 158 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 72 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 157 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 82 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 91 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 49 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 126 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 74 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 162 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 92 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 130 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 76 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 107 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 68 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 85 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 48 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 113 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 43 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 156 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 73 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 116 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 85 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 206 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 112 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 180 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 111 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 130 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 57 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 160 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 80 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 119 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 74 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 159 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 95 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 280 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 141 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 118 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 86 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

509882026-09-15 12:00 — 154 players2026-09-16 21:00 — 141 players2026-09-18 04:00 — 140 players2026-09-19 12:00 — 299 players2026-09-20 19:00 — 450 players2026-09-22 03:00 — 202 players2026-09-23 10:00 — 204 players2026-09-24 18:00 — 360 players2026-09-26 01:00 — 204 players2026-09-27 09:00 — 279 players2026-09-28 16:00 — 374 players2026-09-30 00:00 — 214 players2026-10-01 07:00 — 203 players2026-10-02 15:00 — 359 players2026-10-03 23:00 — 341 players2026-10-05 07:00 — 178 players2026-10-06 14:00 — 297 players2026-10-07 22:00 — 244 players2026-10-09 05:00 — 141 players2026-10-10 13:00 — 305 players2026-10-11 20:00 — 276 players2026-10-13 04:00 — 109 players2026-10-14 11:00 — 137 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
35136Jan 2023Aug 2026Jan 2023 — avg 351 · peak 761Mar 2023 — avg 59 · peak 138May 2023 — avg 43 · peak 122Jul 2023 — avg 53 · peak 116Sep 2023 — avg 38 · peak 115Nov 2023 — avg 71 · peak 170Jan 2024 — avg 78 · peak 207Mar 2024 — avg 60 · peak 122May 2024 — avg 39 · peak 87Jul 2024 — avg 79 · peak 177Sep 2024 — avg 72 · peak 187Nov 2024 — avg 93 · peak 400Jan 2025 — avg 173 · peak 648Mar 2025 — avg 131 · peak 307May 2025 — avg 131 · peak 298Jul 2025 — avg 114 · peak 251Sep 2025 — avg 86 · peak 231Nov 2025 — avg 129 · peak 297Jan 2026 — avg 218 · peak 677Mar 2026 — avg 117 · peak 288May 2026 — avg 122 · peak 378Jul 2026 — avg 317 · peak 632Aug 2026 — avg 158 · peak 360
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Chart history

PositiveNegative
29292026-09-222026-10-142026-09-22: 29 new positive2026-09-22: 21 new negative2026-09-24: 5 new positive2026-09-24: 15 new negative2026-09-26: 15 new positive2026-09-26: 9 new negative2026-09-28: 14 new positive2026-09-28: 14 new negative2026-09-30: 11 new positive2026-09-30: 2 new negative2026-10-01: 5 new positive2026-10-01: 2 new negative2026-10-02: 8 new positive2026-10-02: 4 new negative2026-10-03: 17 new positive2026-10-03: 9 new negative2026-10-04: 8 new positive2026-10-04: 5 new negative2026-10-06: 15 new positive2026-10-06: 8 new negative2026-10-09: 19 new positive2026-10-09: 7 new negative2026-10-12: 26 new positive2026-10-12: 13 new negative2026-10-14: 10 new positive2026-10-14: 5 new negative
New Steam reviews per day (census review snapshots). Positive above the line, negative below.

Twitch viewers

27902026-09-30 21:34 — 9 viewers2026-10-01 00:34 — 220 viewers2026-10-01 03:34 — 34 viewers2026-10-01 06:34 — 7 viewers2026-10-01 09:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-01 12:34 — 1 viewers2026-10-01 15:34 — 4 viewers2026-10-01 18:34 — 7 viewers2026-10-01 21:34 — 204 viewers2026-10-02 01:34 — 264 viewers2026-10-02 04:34 — 18 viewers2026-10-02 07:34 — 1 viewers2026-10-02 10:34 — 1 viewers2026-10-02 13:34 — 4 viewers2026-10-02 16:34 — 13 viewers2026-10-02 19:34 — 21 viewers2026-10-02 22:34 — 19 viewers2026-10-03 01:34 — 44 viewers2026-10-03 04:34 — 9 viewers2026-10-03 23:34 — 49 viewers2026-10-04 02:34 — 12 viewers2026-10-04 05:34 — 2 viewers2026-10-04 08:34 — 3 viewers2026-10-04 11:34 — 2 viewers2026-10-04 14:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-04 17:34 — 7 viewers2026-10-04 20:34 — 6 viewers2026-10-04 23:34 — 9 viewers2026-10-05 02:34 — 13 viewers2026-10-05 05:34 — 2 viewers2026-10-07 05:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-08 07:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-08 10:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-08 14:34 — 15 viewers2026-10-14 11:34 — 2 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Completion

29
achievements tracked
80.3%
earned "First Day on the Job"
11.6%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerFull controller support

12 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
PS5 (PlayStation)27,11215%29
PS4 (PlayStation)24,51215%29
Xbox Series, Xbox One (Xbox)12,00811%28
Switch (Nintendo)8850%0
Switch (Nintendo)40%0

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

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

Player tags

CrimeActionCombatClassicViolentAdventureOpen WorldSingleplayerThird PersonSexual Content

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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