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.
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.
However, Netflix just added Red Dead Redemption to its mobile gaming lineup yesterday, suggesting the relationship between Rockstar Games and Netflix isn't completely dead. The streaming giant is also losing Civilization VI and about a dozen other titles this month, so there's clearly some housecleaning happening in the games division.
If you want to keep playing San Andreas on your phone after December 12, you'll need to buy it directly from the App Store or Google Play. Fair warning though, you can't transfer your save file from the Netflix version to the paid version, so you'll be starting fresh. There's also speculation that Rockstar might add San Andreas to its GTA+ subscription service, since that's where the other two Trilogy games ended up after leaving Netflix.
