Grand Theft Auto III – The Definitive Edition
Give it 15 hours
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 2 reviews are negative (56%); after 20h it's 1 in 5 (22%).
- Fully opens up by hour 20.
- The opening is criticised more than in 85% of games we track.
- 20% of players who start reach the ending.
- The biggest drop-off is between “First Day on the Job” (Complete "Luigi's Girls") and “A Marked Man” (Complete "Last Requests"): from 100% to 43% of starters.
- 81% of owners got the first achievement.
When it gets good
Share of positive reviews by how many hours the reviewer had played when writing the review.
before it gets good opening up fully opened up
Based on all 8,090 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 299 reviews: 14.6h for positive, 9h for negative. Almost every game is rated lower in the first 2–3 hours: that window includes refunds and quick first impressions. What matters is how deep the dip is and how fast the game recovers.
Where players quit
Share of players who started the game and reached each story milestone. 100% is the most common achievement (80.7% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- First Day on the Job Complete "Luigi's Girls". 100%
- A Marked Man Complete "Last Requests". Most players quit here 43% −57
- Offshore Delivery Complete "A Drop in the Ocean". 30% −13
- Not So Fast Complete "The Exchange". 26% −4
- A Gift from the King Complete the "Kingdom Come" mission. 20% −6
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (29)
story milestone ending side
- First Day on the Job Complete "Luigi's Girls". 100%
- Disposing of the Evidence Crush a car at the junkyard. 57%
- Without a Scratch Deliver Mike Lips' car without a scratch on first attempt. 55%
- Wreckless Driving Perform a perfect insane stunt. 45%
- A Marked Man Complete "Last Requests". 43%
- Street Sweeper Waste 100 gang members. 37%
- Liberty City Minute Survive with less than 10 hp for 1 minute. 33%
- Offshore Delivery Complete "A Drop in the Ocean". 30%
- Dirty Money Amass a fortune of $1,000,000. 29%
- Not So Fast Complete "The Exchange". 26%
- Right-hand Man Earn a criminal rating of 2,500. 25%
- By a Mile Complete the "Turismo" race in under 180 seconds. 23%
- A Gift from the King Complete the "Kingdom Come" mission. 20%
- Full Artillery Use every weapon in the game at least once. 15%
- Mob Boss Keep the two mafia members alive during "Triads and Tribulations". 15%
- Splish Splash Extinguish 15 fires during a single Fire Truck mission. 14%
- Got This Figured Out Use a coach to pick up all 8 prostitutes in the mission "The Fuzz Ball". 14%
- Planned Ahead Take out Chunky Lee Chong with a car rigged with a bomb. 13%
- Come Out to Play-y-y-y Kill 25 gang members with melee weapons / fists. 13%
- Where To? Complete 100 taxi fares. 13%
- Playing Doctor Complete Paramedic level 12. 12%
- Going Rogue Kill 15 criminals during one Vigilante mission. 12%
- Escape Artist Use 20 police bribes. 12%
- Liberty City Secrets Collect 100 hidden packages. 11%
- Man Toyz Complete every RC Toyz mission. 11%
- Wheels Up Complete 20 unique jumps. 10%
- Furious First Responder Complete Paramedic, Firefighter, Vigilante. 10%
- Is That All You've Got? Achieve 100% completion. 9.7%
- King of Liberty City Unlock all achievements. 9.2%