A small detail has caught the attention of the Grand Theft Auto VI community. Game tracker website, Backloggd, briefly showed a single person marked as playing the game, which immediately shifted everyone's attention to a story we covered a few weeks ago.
That story centered on a terminally ill GTA fan whose family publicly reached out to Rockstar Games, asking whether there was any chance they could experience GTA 6 early. Rockstar Games acknowledged the request, and a later update suggested conversations had taken place behind the scenes. Beyond that, nothing further was shared publicly.
Because of that context, seeing one person listed as playing the game did not feel completely random. It lined up with the idea of a private, carefully managed session rather than anything resembling early access in the traditional sense. But what changed this week is that the number of players did not stay at one.
A screenshot on Reddit earlier showed 39 people marked as playing GTA 6 on Backloggd. That alone was enough the push the discussion in a new direction. As of the time of writing, that number has now climbed to 69. What matters here is the steady increase in number of players.
A single listing can be dismissed easily. A few dozen starts to feel intentional. And when the number keeps climbing in a short window, people naturally start asking whether something more structured could be happening in the background.
