How Many GTA Games Are There? All GTA Release Dates in Order

A lot of GTA timeline articles mix together full games, add-ons, bundles, remasters, and GTA Online. That is why one page says 11 games, another says 15, and another throws in extras that are not new GTA entries at all.

That confusion matters if you are trying to see the franchise in release order, check when GTA 5 actually came out, or compare the series before GTA VI.

This article separates standalone games from official expansion packs and from repackaged bundles. It also keeps the dates conservative when older platform and regional records do not cleanly point to one universal launch day.

GTA Assumptions

GTA Count

Most count mistakes happen because readers mix together standalone games, expansion packs, and bundles. Once those are separated, the answer is simple.

1. 11 standalone GTA games. This count includes the original game, GTA 2, the 3D-era games, the handheld standalone entries, GTA IV, Chinatown Wars, and GTA V.
2. 15 official named GTA releases. This count adds four official expansion releases: London 1969, London 1961, The Lost and Damned, and The Ballad of Gay Tony.

GTA Timeline

This is a release-order timeline, not an in-universe story order. For the oldest 2D-era titles, public records vary by platform and market, so the table uses the safest first-release window instead of pretending every entry had one clean global street date.

GTA 5 Dates

The most common date mix-up in the whole series is GTA 5 versus GTA Online. GTA V first released on September 17, 2013. GTA Online unlocked later on October 1, 2013.

GTA FAQs

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