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We filtered the 50 games similar to Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City down to the 4 that fit the “Mobile” category. Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and Grand Theft Auto III top the list, ranked by affinity and similarity score to Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City.

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GenreActionSubgenreOpen World Action
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DarkNarrativeSoloMultiplayer
Year 2009Dev Rockstar North

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Within the “Mobile” category, the closest game to Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City is Grand Theft Auto: Vice City — scoring 95/100 on our similarity scale. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and Grand Theft Auto III follow close behind.

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The best games like Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City on Mobile

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Handpicked by our similarity algorithm, these are the titles with the highest gameplay match to Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City. Each one has been evaluated across 15 real attributes — from combat style and progression mechanics to world structure and visual perspective — so every recommendation is based on how the game actually plays, not just its genre label.

#1Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
ActionOpen World Action
SoloMultiplayerMeleeRangedNarrativeDarkOpen WorldSandbox WorldExplorationThird Person
Steam👍 93%· 30KRAWG👍 93%· 3.1KMC94IGDB94· 4
Year 2002Dev Rockstar North · Rockstar GamesPlaytime ~2hOn PC · PS · Xbox

✓ Fits the open-world action games cluster, with third-person shooting, adventure storytelling and shooter

≠ Stands apart with puzzle design

Tighter and more focused than the open worlds that followed it, with a compact city you learn by heart rather than by map marker. Driving carries most of the game. The shooting has aged badly — no proper cover, stiff aiming — and missions restart from the beginning, which turns a late failure into a long redo.

Same studio: Rockstar North.

Genre100Combat100Game mode100Tone100World100Progression100
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
ActionOpen World Action
SoloMultiplayerMeleeRangedNarrativeDarkOpen WorldSandbox WorldExplorationThird Person
Steam👍 92%· 83KRAWG👍 93%· 4.1KMC93IGDB93· 6
Year 2004Dev Rockstar North · CapcomPlaytime ~2hOn PC · PS · Xbox

✓ Same family of open-world action games: adventure storytelling, racing gameplay and shooter

≠ Stands apart with first-person shooting, stealth mechanics and co op

The largest of the PS2-era entries by a distance: three cities, countryside between them, and systems the series never repeated — stat training, gang territory, vehicle variety from bikes to planes. It is also the most uneven. Mission difficulty spikes without warning, and the RPG-ish stat grind sits oddly against the pace of everything else.

Same studio: Rockstar North.

Genre100Tone100World100Progression100Combat72Game mode70
Grand Theft Auto III
ActionOpen World Action
SoloMeleeRangedDarkNarrativeOpen WorldSandbox WorldExplorationThird Person
Steam👍 87%· 15KRAWG👍 86%· 1.6KMC93IGDB95· 2
Year 2001Dev DMA Design · CapcomPlaytime ~1hOn PC · PS · Xbox

✓ Same family of open-world action games: third-person shooting, adventure storytelling and shooter

≠ Stands apart with deep simulation and visual isometric, while skipping multiplayer gameplay

The one that established the template: a 3D open city with radio stations, missions on call and free roaming between them. Historically it matters enormously. It has aged the hardest of the era — no mission checkpoints, no map markers for much of it, a silent protagonist, and shooting that amounts to auto-aim and hoping.

It predates Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City by 8 years, with what that implies technically.

Genre100Combat100Tone100World100Progression100Visuals64
Resident Evil Village
ActionOpen World Action
SoloMultiplayerMeleeRangedDarkNarrativeOpen WorldExploration
Steam👍 96%· 147KRAWG👍 91%· 1.1KMC83IGDB87· 15OC84· 216
Year 2021Dev CapcomPlaytime ~15hOn PC · PS · Xbox

✓ Fits the open-world action games cluster, with adventure storytelling, shooter and dark, oppressive atmosphere

≠ Where it differs: brings survival mechanics, horror tension and first-person shooting, while skipping sandbox freedom

Experience survival horror like never before in the eighth major installment in the storied Resident Evil franchise - Resident Evil Village.

Where it drifts furthest from Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City: visuals.

Released 12 years after Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City.

Genre100Game mode100Tone100Combat73World61Progression52

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