Computed from player tags · Not ranked by quality
24 games like Grand Theft Auto IV: Complete Edition (2026)
Every game below overlaps with Grand Theft Auto IV: Complete Edition on things players said about it rather than on our opinion of what feels alike. Each entry shows what it matched on, so you can throw out the ones matching on the part you did not care about.
The short version
- Closest match: Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition, which made by the same studio, Rockstar North.
- Grand Theft Auto IV: Complete Edition is tagged Open World, Action, Automobile Sim, Multiplayer, Crime, Third Person, Adventure, Singleplayer by Steam players. Those tags are what the matching runs on.
- 24 games qualify, each with at least fifty player reviews behind its sentiment figure.
- 2 are from the same studio: Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition, Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced.
How these were matched
Steam tags carry the most weight, because players apply them and they describe how a game feels rather than how it was filed. Souls-like, Atmospheric and Cozy exist as tags and as nothing else, which is exactly the vocabulary this question needs. Formal genres count for less, themes and a shared studio for more.
Tags carried by more than a third of the catalogue are thrown out before matching. Nearly everything is tagged Singleplayer, so matching on it is matching on nothing. That cutoff is computed from the catalogue rather than fixed, so it moves as the catalogue grows.
All 24, closest first
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Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition
Why it matched: made by the same studio, Rockstar North; both open world, crime and atmospheric; shares 13 player tags including Automobile Sim, Crime and Third Person.
Niko Bellic, Johnny Klebitz and Luis Lopez all have one thing in common - they live in the worst city in America. Liberty City worships money and status, and is heaven for those who have them and a living nightmare for those who don't.
Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition at a glance Released 2020 Studio Rockstar North Player sentiment 83% positive of 202,430 Price $19.99 Automobile SimCrimeThird PersonThird-Person ShooterModdableSandboxShooterPhysics
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Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced
Why it matched: made by the same studio, Rockstar North; both open world, crime and atmospheric; shares 8 player tags including Crime, Third Person and Shooter.
Experience entertainment blockbusters Grand Theft Auto V and Grand Theft Auto Online — now upgraded for a new generation with stunning visuals, faster loading, 3D audio, and more, plus exclusive content for GTA Online players.
Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced at a glance Released 2025 Studio Rockstar North Player sentiment 83% positive of 219,023 Price $19.79 CrimeThird PersonShooterAutomobile SimThird-Person ShooterSandboxFunnyModdable
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Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City
Why it matched: both open world, crime and atmospheric; shares 7 player tags including Automobile Sim, Third Person and Crime; published by the same company.
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 at a glance Released 2010 Studio Rockstar North / Toronto Player sentiment 74% positive of 10,072 Price Not listed Automobile SimThird PersonCrimeShooterSandboxThird-Person ShooterModdable
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Mafia II (Classic)
Why it matched: both open world, crime and atmospheric; shares 7 player tags including Crime, Third Person and Third-Person Shooter.
Vito Scaletta has started to make a name for himself on the streets of Empire Bay as someone who can be trusted to get a job done. Together with his buddy Joe, he is working to prove himself to the Mafia, quickly escalating up the family ladder with crimes of larger reward, status and consequence… the life as a wise guy isn’t quite as...
Mafia II (Classic) at a glance Released 2011 Studio 2K Czech Player sentiment 94% positive of 58,640 Price $29.99 CrimeThird PersonThird-Person ShooterShooterAutomobile SimClassicSandbox
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Hitman: Contracts
Why it matched: both open world, crime and atmospheric; shares 7 player tags including Third Person, Classic and Shooter.
Enter the world of a HITMAN - a world of crime, sin and greed. Delve into the mind of Agent 47 and encounter his greatest adversaries, completing the work that made him so brutally efficient and shaped him as an assassin. Eliminate your targets by any means necessary. There are no rules... only the contract, signed in blood.
Hitman: Contracts at a glance Released 2014 Studio Io-Interactive A/S Player sentiment 87% positive of 3,658 Price $8.99 Third PersonClassicShooterCrimeThird-Person ShooterSandboxGore
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Just Cause 4 Reloaded
Why it matched: both open world, crime and atmospheric; shares 7 player tags including Sandbox, Third-Person Shooter and Shooter.
Rogue agent Rico Rodriguez journeys to Solis, a huge South American world home of conflict, oppression and extreme weather conditions. Strap into your wingsuit, equip your fully customizable grappling hook, and get ready to bring the thunder!
Just Cause 4 Reloaded at a glance Released 2018 Studio Avalanche Studios Player sentiment 62% positive of 32,247 Price Not listed SandboxThird-Person ShooterShooterPhysicsFunnyGoreThird Person
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Mafia III
Why it matched: both open world, crime and atmospheric; shares 7 player tags including Crime, Third Person and Shooter.
After Lincoln Clay's surrogate family, the black mob, is betrayed and killed by the Italian Mafia, Lincoln builds a new family and blazes a path of revenge through the Mafioso responsible.
Mafia III at a glance Released 2016 Studio Aspyr Player sentiment 57% positive of 64,036 Price $29.99 CrimeThird PersonShooterThird-Person ShooterClassicSandboxGore
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Mafia III: Definitive Edition
Why it matched: both open world, crime and atmospheric; shares 7 player tags including Crime, Third Person and Shooter.
After Lincoln Clay's surrogate family, the black mob, is betrayed and killed by the Italian Mafia, Lincoln builds a new family and blazes a path of revenge through the Mafioso responsible.
Mafia III: Definitive Edition at a glance Released 2020 Studio Hangar 13 Player sentiment 57% positive of 64,063 Price $29.99 CrimeThird PersonShooterThird-Person ShooterClassicSandboxGore
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Postal 2
Why it matched: both open world; shares 9 player tags including Dark Humor, Funny and Sandbox.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Postal 2 at a glance Released 2003 Studio Running with Scissors Player sentiment 97% positive of 137,344 Price $9.99 Dark HumorFunnySandboxModdableThird PersonGoreShooterClassic
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Sleeping Dogs
Why it matched: both open world, crime and atmospheric; shares 6 player tags including Third Person, Crime and Sandbox.
As Wei Shen, an undercover cop trying to take down the Triads, you'll have to fight your way up the organization without blowing your cover.
Sleeping Dogs at a glance Released Not recorded Studio United Front Games Player sentiment 94% positive of 17,264 Price Not listed Third PersonCrimeSandboxAutomobile SimThird-Person ShooterShooter
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Mafia: Definitive Edition
Why it matched: both open world, crime and atmospheric; shares 6 player tags including Crime, Third-Person Shooter and Third Person.
An inadvertent brush with the mob thrusts cabdriver Tommy Angelo into the world of organized crime. Initially uneasy about falling in with the Salieri family, the rewards become too big to ignore.
Mafia: Definitive Edition at a glance Released 2020 Studio Hangar 13 Player sentiment 87% positive of 110,615 Price $39.99 CrimeThird-Person ShooterThird PersonShooterClassicGore
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Watch Dogs 2
Why it matched: both open world, crime and atmospheric; shares 6 player tags including Third Person, Shooter and Crime.
Welcome to San Francisco. Play as Marcus, a brilliant young hacker, and join the most notorious hacker group, DedSec. Your objective: execute the biggest hack of history.
Watch Dogs 2 at a glance Released 2016 Studio Ubisoft Romania Player sentiment 82% positive of 101,471 Price $49.99 Third PersonShooterCrimeThird-Person ShooterSandboxFunny
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Watch_Dogs 2
Why it matched: both open world, crime and atmospheric; shares 6 player tags including Third Person, Shooter and Crime.
Welcome to San Francisco. Play as Marcus, a brilliant young hacker, and join the most notorious hacker group, DedSec. Your objective: execute the biggest hack of history.
Watch_Dogs 2 at a glance Released 2016 Studio Ubisoft Player sentiment 82% positive of 101,514 Price $49.99 Third PersonShooterCrimeThird-Person ShooterSandboxFunny
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Mafia II
Why it matched: both open world, crime and atmospheric; shares 6 player tags including Crime, Third Person and Third-Person Shooter.
War hero Vito Scaletta becomes entangled with the mob in hopes of paying his father’s debts. Vito works to prove himself, climbing the family ladder with crimes of larger reward and consequence.
Mafia II at a glance Released 2010 Studio Not recorded Player sentiment 74% positive of 38,540 Price $29.99 CrimeThird PersonThird-Person ShooterGoreShooterClassic
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Mafia II: Definitive Edition
Why it matched: both open world, crime and atmospheric; shares 6 player tags including Crime, Third Person and Third-Person Shooter.
War hero Vito Scaletta becomes entangled with the mob in hopes of paying his father’s debts. Vito works to prove himself, climbing the family ladder with crimes of larger reward and consequence.
Mafia II: Definitive Edition at a glance Released 2020 Studio Hangar 13 Player sentiment 74% positive of 38,558 Price $29.99 CrimeThird PersonThird-Person ShooterGoreShooterClassic
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Saints Row: The Third
Why it matched: both open world and crime; shares 7 player tags including Third-Person Shooter, Funny and Sandbox.
Get ready for the most out-landish gameplay scenarios ever seen as the Third Street Saints take on the Syndicate!
Saints Row: The Third at a glance Released 2011 Studio Not recorded Player sentiment 96% positive of 69,665 Price $2.49 Third-Person ShooterFunnySandboxThird PersonCrimeShooterSatire
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Just Cause 2
Why it matched: both open world and atmospheric; shares 7 player tags including Sandbox, Third Person and Third-Person Shooter.
Dive into an adrenaline-fuelled free-roaming adventure with 400 square miles of rugged terrain and hundreds of weapons and vehicles.
Just Cause 2 at a glance Released 2010 Studio Avalanche Studios Player sentiment 91% positive of 51,583 Price $14.99 SandboxThird PersonThird-Person ShooterShooterFunnyModdablePhysics
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Bully: Scholarship Edition
Why it matched: both open world and atmospheric; shares 6 player tags including Third Person, Funny and Classic; published by the same company.
Bully tells the story of mischievous 15-year-old Jimmy Hopkins as he goes through the hilarity and awkwardness of adolescence. Beat the jocks at dodge ball, play pranks on the preppies, save the nerds, kiss the girl and navigate the social hierarchy in the worst school around.
Bully: Scholarship Edition at a glance Released 2008 Studio Rockstar New England Player sentiment 84% positive of 41,932 Price $14.99 Third PersonFunnyClassicDark HumorSandboxSatire
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Just Cause 3
Why it matched: both open world and atmospheric; shares 7 player tags including Third-Person Shooter, Shooter and Sandbox.
With over 1000 km² of complete freedom from sky to seabed, Rico Rodriguez returns to unleash chaos in the most creative and explosive ways imaginable.
Just Cause 3 at a glance Released 2015 Studio Avalanche Studios Player sentiment 84% positive of 127,859 Price $19.99 Third-Person ShooterShooterSandboxThird PersonPhysicsFunnyModdable
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Hitman 2: Silent Assassin
Why it matched: both crime and atmospheric; shares 7 player tags including Third Person, Classic and Shooter.
Enter the realm of a retired assassin, forced back into action by treason. You may be a hired killer but you still have a sense of loyalty and justice. Visit the dark recesses of a world corrupted by crime, greed, degradation and dishonor. And a past that catches up with you.
Hitman 2: Silent Assassin at a glance Released 2002 Studio Not recorded Player sentiment 82% positive of 4,890 Price $8.99 Third PersonClassicShooterSandboxGoreCrimeThird-Person Shooter
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Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – The Definitive Edition
Why it matched: both open world and crime; shares 6 player tags including Crime, Third-Person Shooter and Third Person; published by the same company.
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.
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – The Definitive Edition at a glance Released 2023 Studio Rockstar Games Player sentiment 80% positive of 16,017 Price $59.99 CrimeThird-Person ShooterThird PersonGoreClassicSandbox
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Flashing Lights - Police, Firefighting, Emergency Services (EMS) Simulator
Why it matched: both open world and crime; shares 7 player tags including Automobile Sim, Physics and Crime.
Play solo or in up to 10-player multiplayer co-op! Flashing Lights is an open world police, firefighting and EMS simulator game with plenty of opportunity for role-play or more relaxed fun with friends. Become the law or save lives! Discover leagues of player-created mods!
Flashing Lights - Police, Firefighting, Emergency Services (EMS) Simulator at a glance Released 2023 Studio Nils Jakrins Player sentiment 79% positive of 18,679 Price $3.74 Automobile SimPhysicsCrimeShooterThird-Person ShooterSandboxThird Person
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Saints Row 2
Why it matched: both open world and crime; shares 7 player tags including Sandbox, Third-Person Shooter and Crime.
Saints Row 2 brings true freedom to open-world gaming. Players can play as who they want, how they want, and with whomever they want in this sequel to the much acclaimed and tremendously successful Saints Row.
Saints Row 2 at a glance Released 2009 Studio Volition Player sentiment 76% positive of 21,728 Price $2.49 SandboxThird-Person ShooterCrimeThird PersonFunnyShooterModdable
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Saints Row: Gat out of Hell
Why it matched: both open world and atmospheric; shares 7 player tags including Third Person, Funny and Third-Person Shooter.
Join Johnny Gat & Kinzie Kensington as you tear apart Hell in a quest to save the Boss’ soul. Historical icons, old friends, older enemies, a talking gun, a full length musical number & a whole lot more shenanigans await!
Saints Row: Gat out of Hell at a glance Released 2015 Studio Deep Silver Volition Player sentiment 75% positive of 9,775 Price $3.74 Third PersonFunnyThird-Person ShooterShooterSandboxDark HumorGore
Common questions
What game is most like Grand Theft Auto IV: Complete Edition?
Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition, on the evidence we have. It made by the same studio, Rockstar North. That is a statement about overlap, not a promise you will like it as much: two games can share every tag and still feel different to play.
How is "similar to Grand Theft Auto IV: Complete Edition" decided?
By overlap on the tags Steam players applied to each game, the formal genres, the themes both sit in, and whether the same studio made them. Tags carry the most weight because players write them, so they describe how a game feels rather than how it was filed. Tags carried by more than a third of the catalogue are ignored: matching on "Singleplayer" is matching on nothing. Every entry below shows exactly what it matched on.
Are these ranked by quality?
No. They are ordered by how much they overlap with Grand Theft Auto IV: Complete Edition. Where two games overlap equally, the better received one goes first, but that only moves a game a place or two. Each entry shows its own player sentiment so you can weigh that separately.
What else did the makers of Grand Theft Auto IV: Complete Edition do?
Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition, Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced are also from Rockstar North, and appear in the list below for that reason as well as on tag overlap.
Do you get paid for these recommendations?
No. The order is computed from tag and genre overlap and nothing else. No placement here can be bought, and a game appearing high on this page is a statement about resemblance rather than an endorsement.