Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – The Definitive Edition
Skip · Shooter · 2023
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 47, under the fair line, at $59.99. Price from Oct 20.
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.99/hr
- Reviews▼
- 80% of 17,106
- Genre rank
- Top 43% Shooter
Holding it back: DRM, Reviews
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Time and effort
- Main story
- 30.1h
- To 100%
- 71h 2.4x the story
- Finish
- 17% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 35
Players and genre
- Online
- 422 now
- Recent reviews
- 82% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 1% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 55% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
81% start to 17% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
July 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $19.79. It has gone on sale 2 times in the 3 months tracked here, most recently in September 2026.
Its score puts it in the top 43 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Red Dead Redemption ($49.99, scores 62) beats it on value, while it beats Grand Theft Auto: Vice City – The Definitive Edition ($59.99, scores 45).
More about Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – The Definitive Edition
Steam's global achievement data puts about 17 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 30.1-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 29 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2026 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,424 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 399 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 52 percent of the 1,509 reviews written there were positive, against 80 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 30.1 hours. Doing everything runs 71, 2.4 times as long.
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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
What players say
San Andreas is one of my favorite GTA game from the series. I love the mission slop and the weird content it has. I do prefer a more realistic roleplay game like Red Dead 2, but this game is old school so I love it for that. Sadly the original is gone from Steam. I do like this version better for few things. Whats better: The Hud, and weapon, and music slot is really easy to navigate. The restart and checkpoints for...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
I'm replaying every GTA games prior to the release of GTA VI. And I can assure you that GTA San Andreas is still the best GTA they ever made, period. This is when the series really became a synonym of ludicrously large games, filled with content and activities. Upon revisiting I was a little bit worried it wouldn't have aged well and would feel small compared to modern games, like GTA III and GTA Vice City do (they...
DEFECTIVE EDITION - This "pun" on name has died long ago, but what truly died is the Rockstar Games we loved back in the day. Delivering slightly janky but really fun experiences is what made us fall in love with Rockstar Games as a developer and GTA as a franchise. This? This is just terrible, scummy, scammy cashgrab. Don't mind the 32.2 hours, I dozzed off most of the time. Hymntothesea's review explains this...
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About the game
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas: It’s the early ’90s. After a couple of cops frame him for homicide, Carl ‘CJ’ Johnson is forced on a journey that takes him across the entire state of San Andreas, to save his family and to take control of the streets.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce GTX 760 2GB / AMD Radeon R9 280 3GB, 19 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – The Definitive Edition scores 47/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. Price last read Oct 20. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1547000/grand-theft-auto-san-andreas-the-definitive-editionReviews 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 Oct 20. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.