GTA: Liberty City Stories

What it is

GTA: Liberty City Stories is a free adventure game published by Rockstar Games. Its Play listing sums it up as: Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories.

Version, size and price

The listing shows last updated Feb 23, 2026, version 2.4.379, Android 9 or newer, a content rating of Mature 17+ and first released Feb 11, 2016. The Play page carries 12 screenshots, and the written description runs to about 315 words. Google Play labels it as one that offers in-app purchases. There is no upfront price.

From the Play description

The description says: “Get ready to head back to the East Coast in Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories”. In the developer’s words, “Former trusted wise guy for the Leone family, Toni Cipriani returns home to Liberty City after spending time in hiding for killing a made man”. It also states that “Deranged hit men, morally depraved tycoons, cynical politicians and even his own mother stand in the way as Toni tries to bring the city under Leone family control”. Another line from the listing: “Rockstar Games, R*, Grand Theft Auto and Liberty City Stories marks/logos are Take-Two Interactive Software trademarks”.

The listing goes on to say “This videogame is fictional; doesn’t depict any actual event/person/entity; & any similarities are coincidental”. One more point the description makes: “Take-Two doesn’t endorse or encourage engaging in any conduct depicted in game”. The description says: “Unauthorized copying, reverse engineering, transmission, public performance, rental, pay for play, or circumvention of copy protection is strictly prohibited”. That is everything we can say about the gameplay from the listing itself, since this page is built from the Play data and not from hands-on play.

What the ratings show

132,023 Google Play users have rated GTA: Liberty City Stories, and the average lands at 3.94. Breaking that down: 63.2% gave five stars, 10.2% four, 3.7% three, 3.4% two and 19.6% one. Most people give it full marks, though the one star group is far from tiny.

Count the extremes and you get 83,427 five star ratings and 25,840 one star ratings, a ratio near 3 to 1. The middle of the scale, two and three stars together, holds 7.0% of ratings (9,285 people). The listing shows 10,000,000+ installs, so the 132,023 ratings come from a slice of the people who installed it.

The downsides

The listing says it offers in-app purchases, so expect to be asked for attention or money at some point. Also, the description points to a need for a connection, so it may not suit a flight or a weak signal. And 19.6% of raters left one star, enough that the complaints are easy to find. This page is built from the Play listing, so check the screenshots and the latest reviews on the Play page before you commit time to it.

Who it is for

Adventure fans first. It is also an easy one to test, since the Play listing is free to open and the install is one tap. Its content rating on Play is Mature 17+, so check that against who will actually use it.