If you just signed up for Netflix to watch the Grand Theft Auto VI Extended Look premiere later this month, welcome. You made a reasonably affordable call, since the reveal lands on Netflix first on August 27, six hours before it hits anywhere else, and here is a nice bonus you might not have known about: Netflix has actual games you can play through your subscription, Rockstar Games titles included.
Unfortunately, this is where the good news as far as Grand Theft Auto titles go end. The bad news is that right now, there is exactly one Rockstar game on the service, and it isn't GTA.
Every Rockstar Game That Has Been on Netflix
Title | Added | Status |
|---|---|---|
Grand Theft Auto III – The Definitive Edition | December 2023 | Removed December 2024 |
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City – The Definitive Edition | December 2023 | Removed December 2024 |
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – The Definitive Edition | December 2023 | Removed December 2025 |
Red Dead Redemption | December 2025 | Still available |
It's been a little less than a year since the last GTA game was available to play on Netflix.
Four Rockstar games have ever been on Netflix, and three of them are already gone. The Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition arrived together in December 2023, then left in stages, with Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas hanging on the longest thanks to sheer popularity before departing at the end of 2025. So the one Rockstar game you can actually play on Netflix today is Red Dead Redemption, the 2010 open-world western, added in December 2025, which comes with full single-player campaign and the Undead Nightmare zombie expansion. There is no multiplayer, and it needs an internet connection, but as a way to sink into a massive Rockstar open world on your phone at no extra cost, it is a genuinely good deal.
You would think that with Rockstar and Netflix now cozy enough to premiere the biggest game reveal of the year together, someone would have quietly slipped the three GTA games back onto the service to greet all the new subscribers. A GTA 6 reveal is bringing in a deluge of curious people to Netflix, and the obvious move would be to have the older GTA games waiting for them. Instead, the cupboard is nearly bare. Honestly, it's an odd if rare miss, and it suggests these games rotate on and off Netflix based on licensing deals rather than any grand plan, partnership or no partnership.
So, if you were hoping to warm up for GTA 6 by replaying the classics on Netflix, you are mostly out of luck.
What to Watch and Play on Netflix if You Love GTA
Title | Type | Why It Fits GTA |
|---|---|---|
Red Dead Redemption | Game | The one Rockstar open world you can actually play here |
High Score | Docuseries | The history of the games that led to studios like Rockstar |
Money Heist | Series | Elaborate heists and a crew of criminals, pure GTA energy |
Narcos | Series | The drug-empire rise-and-fall GTA stories are built on |
Ozark | Series | An ordinary family sinks into money laundering and cartels |
Griselda | Series | A Miami cocaine empire, basically Vice City in real life |
Peaky Blinders | Series | A criminal family clawing its way up through violence |
El Chapo | Series | The making of a cartel kingpin, told cradle to prison |
Lupin | Series | Stylish, clever heists pulled off by a master thief |
The Remarkable Life of Ibelin | Documentary | A moving look at what games mean to the people who play them |
If what you love about Grand Theft Auto is the crime sagas, the sunny-but-rotten settings, the heists and the antiheroes, the service is loaded with it.
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Fortunately, Netflix is no one-trick pony, because there's plenty on the streaming platform that scratches the same controversial itch as GTA.
Griselda deserves a special mention if you are counting down to GTA 6, because it is set in the exact Miami underworld that GTA 6's Vice City is based on. Sofia Vergara plays a real cocaine boss building an empire in 1970s and 80s Florida, which is about as close to a live-action GTA 6 mood board as you will find. If you want to get in the headspace of Jason and Lucia's Leonida before you ever see them play, that is where to start.
Of course, none of these are a substitute for actually playing more Rockstar games, to be clear. They are the next best thing while the service sits on a single one. Although if we're being honest, Red Dead Redemption is well worth your time on its own, so start there if you want the real Rockstar experience and treat the shows as the crime-saga side dish.
So yes, Netflix has Rockstar games, in the technical sense that it has one. Enjoy Red Dead Redemption, queue up a couple of the crime dramas above, and circle August 27.
The reason you subscribed in the first place is still the main event, and it is only a few weeks out.