HD Era

Grand Theft Auto Online

1 October 2013Rockstar NorthLos Santos and Blaine County

The persistent multiplayer half of Grand Theft Auto V, launched two weeks after it and supported ever since. Its catalogue has grown far past the single-player game's — most of the vehicles and weapons in this database exist only here.

The record

Released: 1 October 2013
Developer: Rockstar North
Publisher: Rockstar Games
Setting: Los Santos and Blaine County
Era: HD Era (2008–present)
Type: Main title

Platforms

PlayStation 3
Xbox 360
PlayStation 4
Xbox One
Windows
PlayStation 5
Xbox Series X|S

Every platform the title has been released on. We record which, not when — a port’s own release date is a separate fact and we have not established one for each.

Enter the world

Los Santos and Blaine County

The places, the people, the vehicles and the weapons of Grand Theft Auto Online. Follow any of them in.

Locations

The places

All 40 places

Downtown Los Santos at sunset, glass towers above the freeway with the hills behind them.

GTA V

City

Los Santos

The series' Los Angeles, built twice: in 1992 for San Andreas, around the gang neighbourhoods of the south, and again for Grand Theft Auto V, where it fills the southern half of the map and most of the story.

San Andreas
State
GTA V
Blaine County
Region
GTA V
Vinewood Hills
District

Characters

The cast

All 13 characters

Antagonist

Avon Hertz

A technology billionaire whose plan for the country is run by the artificial intelligence he built to have it, and who is entirely comfortable with that.