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Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Stories Los Santos

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2025

Should you play it?

What works

  • Massive open world with diverse environments
  • Deep character customization and rpg elements
  • Engaging and memorable story with strong characters
  • Varied missions and side activities
  • Immersive soundtrack and atmosphere

Things to keep in mind

  • Dated controls and mechanics, especially shooting and flying
  • Some frustrating mission design and checkpoints
  • Clunky driving physics in certain vehicles
  • Technical limitations due to age
  • Remaster versions have had mixed reception

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

Less status-driven

Games that feels like Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Stories Los Santos but with less focus on status and recognition

  • Prey

  • Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition

  • Fallout: New Vegas

  • Planet Alcatraz 2

  • Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition

  • Assassin's Creed 2

More social

Games that feels like Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Stories Los Santos but with more teamwork and cooperation

  • Grand Theft Auto V: Special Edition

  • Far Cry® 5

  • Saints Row®: The Third™ Remastered

  • Splatoon Raiders

  • Red Dead Online

  • Saints Row: The Third

Less leadership-focused

Games that feels like Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Stories Los Santos but with less leadership over others

  • Cyberpunk 2077

  • Days Gone

  • Grand Theft Auto: Vice City – The Definitive Edition

  • Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition

  • Yakuza 5 Remastered

  • Rise of the Tomb Raider™

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Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Stories Los Santos: Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Cooperation, Fellowship, Intimacy, Leadership. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Status. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Cooperation, Fellowship.

Last update: 21/08/2026