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Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – The Definitive Edition

Rockstar Games · 2023-01-19

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ActionAdventure

Franchise: Grand Theft Auto · Modes: Single player

Releases: Nov 11, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Nov 11, 2021 (Nintendo Switch), Dec 14, 2023 (iOS), Nov 11, 2021 (PlayStation 5), Nov 11, 2021 (PlayStation 4), Nov 11, 2021 (Xbox Series X|S)

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas: It’s the early ’90s. After a couple of cops frame him for homicide, Carl ‘CJ’ Johnson is forced on a journey that takes him across the entire state of San Andreas, to save his family and to take control of the streets.

1,317
playing now
80%
positive of 16k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
500,000–1,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
23
twitch viewers (latest)
80/100
IGDB user rating (62 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$59.99
steam price (US)

1,317 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 17:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Healthy
  • · 1,317 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 4,644 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~581/week).
  • · Review velocity up 58% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 8% of 10,909 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 319k–717k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 15,937 total reviews — how this is computed.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
70070020232026Week of 2023-01-01: 553 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 260 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 245 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 107 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 192 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 76 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 105 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 43 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 123 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 51 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 118 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 57 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 155 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 49 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 183 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 98 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 89 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 38 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 163 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 57 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 607 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 94 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 196 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 73 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 195 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 63 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 202 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 87 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 121 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 54 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 146 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 41 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 134 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 28 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 187 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 60 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 219 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 74 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 171 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 52 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 187 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 74 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 179 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 65 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 250 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 82 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 423 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 98 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 423 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 110 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 355 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 65 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 369 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 77 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 270 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 38 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 318 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 61 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 344 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 96 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 373 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 77 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 281 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 54 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 226 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 57 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 254 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 51 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 361 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 87 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 376 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 93 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 564 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 130 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 456 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 105 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 342 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 71 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 515 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 102 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 384 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 75 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 499 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 98 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 700 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 134 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 345 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 59 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

1.4k4642026-08-06 22:00 — 852 players2026-08-07 06:00 — 586 players2026-08-07 14:00 — 1,107 players2026-08-07 22:00 — 912 players2026-08-08 06:00 — 701 players2026-08-08 14:00 — 1,310 players2026-08-08 22:00 — 1,046 players2026-08-09 06:00 — 836 players2026-08-09 14:00 — 1,448 players2026-08-09 22:00 — 1,003 players2026-08-10 06:00 — 555 players2026-08-10 15:00 — 1,010 players2026-08-10 23:00 — 796 players2026-08-11 07:00 — 550 players2026-08-11 15:00 — 1,069 players2026-08-12 22:00 — 762 players2026-08-14 06:00 — 464 players2026-08-15 14:00 — 1,055 players2026-08-16 22:00 — 901 players2026-08-18 05:00 — 476 players2026-08-19 13:00 — 740 players2026-08-20 20:00 — 825 players2026-08-22 04:00 — 591 players2026-08-23 11:00 — 911 players2026-08-24 19:00 — 905 players2026-08-26 03:00 — 520 players2026-08-27 10:00 — 588 players2026-08-28 18:00 — 898 players2026-08-30 01:00 — 743 players2026-08-30 17:00 — 1,317 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Twitch viewers

29232026-08-26 19:15 — 49 viewers2026-08-26 21:34 — 38 viewers2026-08-27 01:34 — 35 viewers2026-08-27 04:34 — 9 viewers2026-08-27 07:33 — 14 viewers2026-08-27 10:34 — 16 viewers2026-08-27 13:34 — 20 viewers2026-08-27 16:34 — 26 viewers2026-08-27 19:34 — 186 viewers2026-08-27 23:34 — 39 viewers2026-08-28 02:34 — 30 viewers2026-08-28 05:34 — 15 viewers2026-08-28 08:34 — 12 viewers2026-08-28 11:34 — 22 viewers2026-08-28 14:34 — 52 viewers2026-08-28 17:34 — 68 viewers2026-08-28 20:34 — 29 viewers2026-08-28 23:34 — 34 viewers2026-08-29 02:34 — 113 viewers2026-08-29 05:34 — 31 viewers2026-08-29 08:34 — 3 viewers2026-08-29 11:34 — 8 viewers2026-08-29 14:34 — 35 viewers2026-08-29 17:34 — 42 viewers2026-08-29 20:34 — 24 viewers2026-08-29 23:34 — 17 viewers2026-08-30 02:34 — 62 viewers2026-08-30 05:34 — 26 viewers2026-08-30 08:34 — 9 viewers2026-08-30 11:34 — 12 viewers2026-08-30 14:34 — 34 viewers2026-08-30 17:34 — 23 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Completion

35
achievements tracked
80.7%
earned "Getting Started"
10.6%
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
Xbox Series, Xbox One (Xbox)62,5043%34
PS5 (PlayStation)40,23011%35
PS4 (PlayStation)33,24312%35
Switch (Nintendo)1,0470%0
Switch (Nintendo)50%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

Crime1990'sActionCombatMatureNudityViolentAdventureOpen WorldStory Rich

Census log

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

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