Grand Theft Auto

Open-world crime game series — steal cars, run heists, terrorise cities. GTA V is the second-best-selling game ever.

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What is Grand Theft Auto?

Grand Theft Auto (GTA) is Rockstar Games's open-world crime-drama series, launched from Edinburgh in 1997 as a top-down 2D game and reinvented in 3D with GTA III (2001) — a moment often credited with mainstreaming the open-world genre. GTA V (2013) is by some counts the second-best-selling video game ever with 200+ million copies. Its GTA Online is a persistent multiplayer city sandbox with tens of millions of active players a decade after launch.

Quick facts

Category

Video Games

Type

Individual

Players

1–30

Where played

indoor

Country of origin

🇬🇧 United Kingdom

Estimated origin

1997, DMA Design (later Rockstar North), Edinburgh

Olympic

No

Popularity

global

Sources & provenance

Last verified 2026-08-24.verified