Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
Shooter / Racing / Adventure · 2004 · Xbox, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Windows Phone, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac, Xbox 360, PlayStation 2
Rockstar North's open-world action-adventure with shooting and driving, first released in 2004 on PlayStation 2. The story has 101 missions across Los Santos, the countryside, San Fierro, the desert and Las Venturas, and HowLongToBeat estimates about 82½ hours for 100% completion. A separate 2021 Definitive Edition remaster also exists.
Guides and missables below stop at this point. Move it forward as you play.
Quest walkthroughs
Quests for Grove Street opening. Open a quest for step-by-step directions, choices, rewards and troubleshooting. Its full walkthrough reveals that quest’s details.
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Quick tips
Grove Street opening
Save before every mission
Save manually before every story mission, especially before the three flagged missable ones. Several missions tell you what to bring, so check the objective before you start.
Grove Street opening
Train early
Eat, work out and practise weapons early. Muscle, stamina, weapon skill and driving skill carry across all three cities.
Grove Street opening
Learn the drive-by early
Drive-Thru and Drive-By depend on drive-by shooting. Learn it with the stick or button early on.
Grove Street opening
Keep a handgun for Cleaning the Hood
You need a handgun for Cleaning the Hood. Speedrunners pick one up during Big Smoke and use it on the dealers.
Grove Street opening
Spray tags as you meet them
The tags are a long-running collectible, so spray them as you find them.
Things you can miss
Optional quests, items or choices you can lose access to by progressing past a point. Guides often call these “missables”.
Not a Player (Definitive Edition dating trophy)Coming up
Can be lost after: Los Santos
You must date every potential girlfriend, and two of the six cannot be respawned if killed. Don't kill dates or girlfriends, and complete the first date with each one as soon as she becomes available.
Assassin (Definitive Edition)Coming up
Can be lost after: Los Santos
During Madd Dogg's Rhymes (#19), stealth kill every enemy without being detected; a knife swing doesn't count. It is lost once the mission is completed, but you can reload an earlier save to retry.
All Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas missables by stage (contains spoilers)
Opening this list shows every missable’s name, including ones past your spoiler line. Names only, no details.
- Not a Player (Definitive Edition dating trophy) · can be lost after Los Santos
- Assassin (Definitive Edition) · can be lost after Los Santos
- Who Needs Directions? (Definitive Edition) · can be lost after San Fierro
- They Can't Stop All of Us (Definitive Edition) · can be lost after Desert and Bone County
- Croupier date · can be lost after Las Venturas
Guides and data last refreshed Nov 14, 2026. They are generated from web research and may contain mistakes.