Best gta games

10364 duels later, GTA V is still #1 in the Grand Theft Auto ranking, with GTA San Andreas close behind.

GTA V wins 71% of its duels and holds a 41 ELO point lead over GTA San Andreas in second place at 1418 ELO. The top 3 features GTA IV at 1358 ELO, while the most pronounced divide appears between GTA Vice City and GTA Online: an 84 point gap separates fourth from fifth, marking the clearest boundary in the ranking. GTA Vice City sits at 1330 ELO with a 63% win rate, while GTA Online drops to 1246 ELO despite accumulating 1670 duels. At the bottom, GTA Advance closes the ranking at 924 ELO with a 28% win rate, suggesting the community reserves its affection for console and PC entries over handheld experiments. The original GTA, despite launching the franchise, lands at rank 11 with 1029 ELO. GTA Chinatown Wars occupies the tenth spot at 1050 ELO.

This ranking draws from 10364 duels submitted by 427 players across 12 contenders, updated on 12 October 2026. Each duel asks players which Grand Theft Auto game they had the most fun with, and every vote adjusts the ELO scores that determine these standings. To shape this TopList with your own experience, head to the Grand Theft Auto ranking and pick your favorites in head-to-head matchups.

Updated on October 12, 2026

How this ranking is computed

Every duel won lifts a contender and every loss drops them, by an amount that depends on the opponent's strength: beating the leader is worth more than beating the last. It is an ELO, the same principle as in chess. Duels are not drawn at random — an adaptive entropy sort puts the least predictable match-ups first, which settles the ranking far faster than a full round robin. A worldwide ranking is only published past 30 completed plays. Known limit: a contender who has faced few opponents keeps an approximate score, and the bottom of the table moves more than the podium.

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