Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition

Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition

Fair · Shooter · 2020

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

Fair at $5.99. Buy it if you want it.

Cost per hourS
$0.20/hr
Reviews▼
83% of 207,169
Critics
90 players 7 lower
Genre rank
Top 18% Shooter

Holding it back: DRM, Reviews

Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Time and effort

Main story
30.7h
To 100%
100.5h 3.3x the story
Achievements
55

Price and sales

Sales
88 on record
Typical cut
70% off
Steam low
$3.99 April 2015
Sale every
44d last November 2026
Lowest now on Steamall-time low $3.55 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
3,662 now
Recent reviews
89% 30 days
Cheaper than
16% of its genre
Better reviewed
64% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

56% start to 1% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

This site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

April 2015 is where it bottomed out, at $3.99. Across all 88 discounts in the 14 years tracked, the median cut is 70 percent, about 6 weeks apart.

Its score puts it in the top 18 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 84 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 64 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Mafia II (Classic) ($29.99, scores 69) beats it on value, while it beats Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced ($29.99, scores 58).

More about Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition

This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 27 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written August 2026 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 49 percent of the 19,687 reviews written there were positive, against 83 percent overall, and those are 11 percent of everything written about it.

30.7 hours to finish it, 101 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.3 times the campaign.

The rating rests on 207,169 reviews, so it is not going to move much from here.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

Grades: S best, D weakest

S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Cost per hour$0.20/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set. That is today's sale price. Normally $0.65/hr
MonetizationNone
No in-game purchases. Paid DLC exists and is not docked
Holding it back
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
DRMRockstar Games account needed
Needs a second account on top of Steam, a small friction discount
For context
Refunds27 of 800 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

What players say

GTA 4 is simply the best in MANY aspects! (although it lacked some things to be considered "perfect") The story of 4 (Niko Bellic): not only is it deep, but it's well-written, well-crafted, and even dark! It takes the king's throne, leaving aside the stories of 5, San Andreas, and Vice City, particularly speaking! The gameplay: Rockstar adopted a culture of realism that is truly frightening... in a good way! Even...
Dark KutsuneRecommendedafter 11h20 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
I played this game when it first came out. After playing GTA V for so long I must say it is refreshing to go back to this game. I honestly had forgot that I love it so much. Something about the driving, the city, the characters in this game. I honestly would go as far as to say I do like this game better than GTA V. This feels much more like the concrete jungle is supposed to as opposed to what has happened with GTA...
bigsmit19Recommendedafter 4.3h9 found this helpfulRead on Steam
It was mostly lies, I didn't see luxury condo, or a sportscar, or barbara with big titties, and stephanie who sucks like a vaccum. There was no american dream, it was all dark, grim, and harsh reality of new york.
YoungBoyoNot recommendedafter 27h21 found this helpfulRead on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

About the game

Niko Bellic, Johnny Klebitz and Luis Lopez all have one thing in common - they live in the worst city in America. Liberty City worships money and status, and is heaven for those who have them and a living nightmare for those who don't.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 1.5 GB of memory, 256MB Nvidia 7900 / 256MB ATI X1900, 22 GB of storage. Windows only.

Cite this score

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Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition scores 66/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/12210/grand-theft-auto-iv-the-complete-edition
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Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players-7
Critics90
Players83
Metacritic critics · 207,169 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperRockstar North
PublisherRockstar Games
GenreShooter
Released2020
Players7.5Mowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements55