Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition
Action, Adventure
- Steam players
- Very Positive
- 83% of 206,547
- Metacritic score
- 90/100
- from critics
- Release
- 2020
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What this game is
Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition is a cult open world from Rockstar North, released in 2008. You play Niko Bellic, an immigrant from Eastern Europe who comes to Liberty City (a fictional New York) to join his cousin Roman, looking for the American dream. Instead he finds debts, gangs, and moral choices with no right answers. Niko's story is considered one of the strongest in the genre: dark, cinematic, with no heroism for the sake of heroism.
What is included: the full Liberty City trilogy in one edition. Besides the main story, there are two DLCs: The Lost and Damned (TLAD, Johnny Klebitz, president of The Lost biker club) and The Ballad of Gay Tony (TBoGT, Luis Lopez, bodyguard at Tony Prince's nightclub). The three story lines intersect and form a single picture of Liberty City from different points of view.
Why it matters in 2026: Metacritic PC 90/100. More than 25 million copies sold across all systems. Steam: ~83% Very Positive from ~193,000 reviews. The active mod scene continues to develop.
An honest note on the technical side: the native 2008 DX9 port has performance problems on modern GPUs. The community solved them through DXVK (replacing the renderer with Vulkan). Setup takes ~15 minutes following the Steam guide. After setup, the game runs at a stable 60 fps.
Who it is for: those who value cinematic narrative and moral depth in an open-world game. Official Russian subtitles are included. The voice-over is English only (a Rockstar tradition).
Niko Bellic arrives in Liberty City for the American dream. A cult open-world game from 2008: 3 stories, 25 million copies. Russian subtitles.
- Single-player
- Multiplayer
- Available on
- Steam
- Release date
- Metacritic
- 90
- Developer
- Rockstar North
- Publisher
- Rockstar Games
Languages and hardware
Voice-over: EnglishText: 5 languages
All 5 languages
- EnglishText + voice-over
- FrenchText only
- ItalianText only
- GermanText only
- испанский – ИспанияText only
Minimum
- OS
- Windows 10 64-bit (officially; Windows 7/8 are outdated)
- Processor
- Intel Core 2 Duo 1.8 GHz or AMD Athlon X2 64 2.4 GHz
- Memory
- 1.5 GB (Vista) / 1 GB (XP) – de facto 4 GB needed
- Graphics card
- NVIDIA GeForce 7900 256MB or ATI X1900 256MB
- Storage
- 22 GB (Complete Edition with both DLC)
Recommended
- OS
- Windows 10 64-bit
- Processor
- Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 2.4 GHz or AMD Phenom 9850 Quad-Core @ 2.5 GHz
- Memory
- 2 GB (officially) – de facto 8 GB for comfortable play in 2026
- Graphics card
- NVIDIA GeForce 8600 512MB or ATI Radeon HD 3870 512MB
- Storage
- 22 GB
What people say about the game
Very Positive
206,547 reviews on Steam
Critics score
Metacritic score: 90/100
This is how players and critics rate the game itself, not our store.
Frequently asked questions
What do I get when I buy Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition on Lootaem?
A digital key or gift for Steam, not an account or a subscription. After Lootaem launches, it arrives in your personal account area right after payment. Activation in Steam: the "Games" menu → "Activate a Product on Steam" → enter the key (or accept the gift). The game appears in your library within 1-2 minutes.
What are the system requirements for Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition, and will it run on my PC?
Minimum: Intel Core 2 Duo 1.8 GHz or AMD Athlon X2 64 2.4 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce 7900 256MB or ATI X1900 256MB graphics card, 1.5 GB (Vista) / 1 GB (XP) of RAM, though in practice 4 GB of RAM is required, and 22 GB on disk (Complete Edition with both DLCs). Recommended: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 2.4 GHz or AMD Phenom 9850 Quad-Core @ 2.5 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce 8600 512MB or ATI Radeon HD 3870 512MB graphics card. The full requirements are in the "System Requirements" block on this page.