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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

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.

304
playing now
66%
positive of 7.5k reviews
Mixed
steam rating
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)
$59.99
steam price (US)

304 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 17:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Healthy
  • · 304 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 13% of 10,936 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 151k–339k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 7,536 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

304722026-08-06 22:00 — 138 players2026-08-07 06:00 — 100 players2026-08-07 14:00 — 204 players2026-08-07 22:00 — 155 players2026-08-08 06:00 — 114 players2026-08-08 14:00 — 224 players2026-08-08 22:00 — 177 players2026-08-09 06:00 — 129 players2026-08-09 14:00 — 276 players2026-08-09 22:00 — 175 players2026-08-10 06:00 — 80 players2026-08-10 15:00 — 177 players2026-08-10 23:00 — 130 players2026-08-11 07:00 — 89 players2026-08-11 15:00 — 184 players2026-08-12 22:00 — 114 players2026-08-14 06:00 — 75 players2026-08-15 14:00 — 206 players2026-08-16 22:00 — 176 players2026-08-18 05:00 — 72 players2026-08-19 13:00 — 144 players2026-08-20 20:00 — 159 players2026-08-22 04:00 — 114 players2026-08-23 11:00 — 175 players2026-08-24 19:00 — 202 players2026-08-26 02:00 — 119 players2026-08-27 10:00 — 117 players2026-08-28 18:00 — 198 players2026-08-30 02:00 — 194 players2026-08-30 17:00 — 304 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Twitch viewers

1402026-08-26 20:34 — 1 viewers2026-08-26 21:34 — 2 viewers2026-08-26 22:34 — 6 viewers2026-08-26 23:34 — 8 viewers2026-08-27 01:34 — 14 viewers2026-08-27 02:34 — 14 viewers2026-08-27 03:34 — 6 viewers2026-08-27 04:34 — 2 viewers2026-08-27 05:34 — 3 viewers2026-08-27 06:34 — 6 viewers2026-08-27 07:33 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 08:34 — 1 viewers2026-08-27 09:33 — 1 viewers2026-08-27 10:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 11:34 — 3 viewers2026-08-27 12:34 — 7 viewers2026-08-27 13:34 — 2 viewers2026-08-27 14:34 — 10 viewers2026-08-27 15:34 — 7 viewers2026-08-27 16:34 — 9 viewers2026-08-27 17:34 — 11 viewers2026-08-27 18:34 — 9 viewers2026-08-27 19:34 — 7 viewers2026-08-27 21:34 — 4 viewers2026-08-27 22:34 — 1 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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