Netflix subscribers are about to lose access to one of the platform's most popular games. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas - The Definitive Edition will stop being playable on Friday, December 12, marking the end of a surprisingly successful two-year run on the streaming service. Don't worry though - your library won't stay without a beloved classic open-world Rockstar Games masterpiece, as western romp Red Dead Redemption is taking its place.
GTA San Andreas racked up over 57 million downloads across iOS and Android according to data from Appmagic, making it the biggest single title in Netflix's gaming catalog. On Android alone, it passed 10 million downloads and consistently ranked as the second most-played game on the platform. That's remarkable staying power for a game that originally launched in 2004.
Netflix first brought the entire GTA Trilogy Definitive Edition collection to mobile in December 2023. The other two games in the package, GTA III and Vice City, only lasted a year before being pulled late last year. San Andreas got a contract extension and stuck around for another 12 months, but that grace period is now ending. Do the differing lifetimes of the games on the service speak to their relative popularity, or were licensing terms behind this? We might never know.
