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GTA 5 Online – Open-World/Action
Genre: Action-Adventure | Developer: Rockstar Games | Platform: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S | Release Date: September 2013 | Model: Buy2Play
What to expect in GTA Online
What is GTA Online? GTA Online is the multiplayer for Grand Theft Auto V. You create a character and enter the vast and open game world. Lester, Franklin, and other acquaintances continuously invite you to new missions.
Through missions, you earn money, buy weapons and vehicles to earn even more money. The goal is to create as many revenue streams as possible so that you can afford the new content like cars, properties, and weapons that Rockstar regularly introduces in GTA 5 Online.
Slowly but surely, you earn a fortune with contact missions, heists, vehicle trading, drug labs, money laundering, and other criminal activities. This allows you to purchase crazy vehicles like rocket-equipped flying motorcycles or the finest luxury cars.
What content does GTA Online offer? GTA Online offers you pretty much everything your heart desires:
- a large, open world with many sights and activities
- Races with bicycles, motorcycles, boats, airplanes, supercars, monster trucks, stunt racers, and more
- PvP in free-for-all, team modes or in open world
- various ways to earn currency passively or actively
- Vehicle tuning for hot sports cars or fun scooters
- crazy characters in story and multiplayer
The cost of GTA Online: When you buy GTA 5, GTA Online is included. You only need to register an account with the Social Club.
In the Enhanced version, GTA 5 normally costs around 30 euros. On Steam, however, there is currently a sale where you can grab the game for just about 15 euros.
With GTA+, the developers offer an optional subscription that gives you various benefits in the game. The price: €7.99 per month. A list of benefits can be found at rockstargames.com.
Our conclusion on GTA 5 Online in 2026: While the release of GTA 6 is scheduled for November, it is already clear that no new online variant will be released simultaneously. The current version of GTA Online will therefore remain relevant for the time being. And not only that: Currently, the online mode even benefits from the hype surrounding GTA 6. We notice this, for example, by the fact that certain guide topics are being searched for more frequently.
If you want to try GTA Online for the first time, you will find an incredibly vast world full of possibilities. Solo players can earn money as a CEO or Motorcycle Club Leader and start their empire. Even the heists have been designed so that they can be completed alone and without additional participants. In Cayo Perico, you can earn millions of dollars alone.
Those of you who simply enjoy racing and want to compete with others have the choice between dozens of racetracks designed by Rockstar and even more tracks created by players.
A fine RP community has even emerged over the years, which operates on the servers of GTA Online Roleplay. You can find out more about it in this video by the colleagues from GameStar Talk on YouTube or in the following:
However, if you simply enjoy competing against other players in PvP, you can do so alone in the open world or engage in one of the many multiplayer shooting modes that matchmake you with a variety of players.
GTA Online is still fun to this day and is worth a deeper look due to the many diverse contents. New DLCs are regularly released, which you can download and use for free. New heists, weapons, and cars are waiting for you.
Not so nice: After a few hours in the online world, you will notice that most content is really expensive. GTA Online doesn’t try to hide this much. On PC, sessions are also often visited by modders. If you are lucky, they will ignore you. If you are unlucky, your character will catch fire and die repeatedly until you switch sessions. This can be frustrating. You can find tips for getting started in our guide section of the GTA-5 overview
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