15 Games Like GTA for Low End PC (2026): Open World, Small Size

Harsh Talreja
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Updated April 2026 with current Indian retail prices.

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15 Games Like GTA for Low End PC (2026): Open World, Small Size

GTA 5 needs 72GB and a decent GPU. Not happening on your laptop. Your 4GB RAM machine with Intel UHD graphics is not going to launch Rockstar\’s crown jewel, and honestly that\’s fine because there are 15 games that give you the same open world crime sandbox feeling and all of them actually install.

This list is specifically built for low end PCs. We\’re talking integrated graphics, 4GB RAM, 256GB SSDs with 40GB already eaten by Windows. Every game here has a verified install size and confirmed minimum specs. If you want general open world options without the GTA comparison, check the best open world games for low end PC. For size-filtered lists, see best PC games under 10GB and best games under 5GB. And if IGI-style stealth shooters are what you want, the similar games like IGI for PC list has you covered.

Three of the games on this list were running in every cybercafe in India between 2002 and 2008. You already know them. The rest are worth playing for the first time.

Quick Reference Table

#GameSizeOpen World?Shooting?Driving?Min RAMFree?
1GTA San Andreas~3.6GBYesYesYes256MBNo (Steam)
2GTA Vice City~1.6GBYesYesYes128MBNo (Steam)
3GTA III~1GBYesYesYes128MBNo (Steam)
4Total Overdose~1GBPartialYesYes512MBNo
5Gun (2005)~1.6GBYesYesHorses512MBNo
6Road Rash (1994)~500MBNoPartialYes512MBAbandonware
7Bully: Scholarship Ed.~4.7GBYesPartialYes1GBNo (Steam)
8Just Cause 2~4.5GBYesYesYes2GBNo (Steam)
9True Crime: Streets of LA~3GBYesYesYes512MBNo
10Scarface: The World is Yours~3GBYesYesYes512MBNo
11The Godfather (2006)~3GBYesYesYes512MBNo
12Saints Row 2~6GBYesYesYes2GBFree (GOG)
13Saints Row: The Third~7.4GBYesYesYes4GBNo (Steam)
14Sleeping Dogs (2012)~7.7GBYesYesYes4GBNo (Steam)
15Mafia II (2010)~8-9GBPartialYesYes2GBNo (Steam)

15 Games Like GTA That Actually Run on Low End PCs

1. GTA San Andreas

Developer: Rockstar Games | Release: 2004 (PC 2005) | Size: ~3.6GB on Steam | Available: Steam, Rockstar Launcher

Minimum specs: 1GHz processor, 256MB RAM, DirectX 8.1 GPU with 64MB VRAM. Practically runs on anything.

If you went to a cybercafe in any Indian city between 2005 and 2012, you played San Andreas on a machine that cost Rs 15,000. That is the legacy of this game. Grove Street, CJ\’s story, the radio stations, the gang wars across Los Santos, San Fierro, and Las Venturas. Three full cities on 3.6GB. No game since has packed this much content into this little space.

The Steam version runs fine on modern Windows 10 and 11. People have been modding it for 20 years so CLEO mods, high-res texture packs, and widescreen fixes are all available and free. The default Steam version also has some original soundtrack songs replaced due to licensing, which annoys longtime fans, but the Rockstar Games Launcher version has workarounds available.

If your laptop can run Chrome, it can run San Andreas. Full stop.

Closest GTA comparison: this is basically GTA before GTA 5 existed. The game is not a GTA alternative. It is a GTA game. It belongs at number one.

2. GTA Vice City

Developer: Rockstar Games | Release: 2002 (PC 2003) | Size: ~1.6GB on Steam | Available: Steam

Minimum specs: 800MHz processor, 128MB RAM, DirectX 8.1 GPU with 32MB VRAM. Runs on any hardware from 2003 onward.

Vice City is 1.6GB. Let that sink in. A game with a complete city, 70+ missions, motorcycles, helicopters, boats, a full story, radio stations with licensed music, and 20-30 hours of content sitting in 1.6GB. Some phone apps are bigger than this game.

For an entire generation of Indian gamers, Tommy Vercetti in a Hawaiian shirt is childhood. The neon-lit 1980s Miami aesthetic, Billie Jean playing on the radio while you\’re fleeing police in a sports car, the Malibu Club missions. If you somehow missed Vice City growing up, you need to play it before you play anything else on this list.

The PC version has had persistent frame rate cap issues at 30fps but community patches like the Vice City FPS Unlocker fix that completely. The game costs Rs 50-150 on Steam during sale events.

Closest GTA comparison: it is a GTA game. Second best after San Andreas in terms of cultural footprint in India.

3. GTA III

Developer: Rockstar Games | Release: 2001 (PC 2002) | Size: ~1GB on Steam | Available: Steam

Minimum specs: 450MHz Pentium III, 128MB RAM, DirectX 8.0 GPU. Genuinely any PC from 2001 onward.

GTA III started the entire 3D open world crime genre. One city, one protagonist who never speaks, and a criminal underworld story that launched a billion-dollar franchise. Liberty City is smaller than San Andreas\’s map but the game still holds up structurally. Drive, shoot, complete missions, evade police, repeat.

At 1GB it is the smallest open world crime game on this list. If you are on a seriously constrained drive with maybe 5-8GB free, GTA III installs and leaves room for more. The Steam version has the same music replacement issues as Vice City but the core gameplay is fully intact.

New players who come from GTA 5 will notice the lack of aim assist, the locked camera angles in some vehicles, and Claude\’s complete silence. These are features of the era, not bugs. Give it 90 minutes and it clicks.

4. Total Overdose: A Gunslinger\’s Tale in Mexico

Developer: Deadline Games | Release: 2005 | Size: ~1GB | Available: Disc only / grey market stores

Minimum specs: 1.5GHz processor, 512MB RAM, DirectX 9 GPU with 64MB VRAM. Runs perfectly on budget hardware.

Total Overdose was the game in Indian cybercafes alongside San Andreas. Ask anyone who frequented a LAN shop in 2006 and 2007. Ramiro Cruz, a DEA agent in Mexico City, sprinting through missions with dual pistols while John Woo-style slow-motion activates during gunfights. The city is open, cars are stealable, gunfights are loud, and the whole thing weighs around 1GB.

The game is not available on Steam or any major digital platform officially. It was published by Eidos Interactive which no longer holds the rights in any active distribution deal. You can find it on grey market disc sellers and some digital grey markets. Worth the effort to track down. Many Indian gaming shops still stock original PC DVDs of this game.

The mechanics are messier than GTA but the energy is identical. If you liked SA, you will like Total Overdose. No question.

Closest GTA comparison: GTA San Andreas but 30% jankier and set in Mexico. Jankiness is part of the charm.

5. Gun (2005)

Developer: Neversoft | Release: 2005 | Size: ~1.6GB | Available: Disc only (removed from Steam)

Minimum specs: 1.8GHz processor, 512MB RAM, DirectX 9 GPU with 64MB VRAM. Ancient hardware friendly.

Gun is what happens when you take GTA\’s open world mission structure and put it in the 1880s American frontier. Colton White rides horses instead of driving cars. Stagecoach robberies replace carjacking. Wanted levels are replaced by bounty hunters who come after you on horseback. The map is smaller than a GTA city but the freedom to explore, take side missions, and create chaos is fully intact.

At 1.6GB this is among the smallest open world games on this list. The game was removed from Steam and digital stores years ago due to expired licensing. Physical disc copies are the only official option. Grey market disc sellers in India have it. The game runs without issue on modern Windows with a compatibility mode set to Windows XP.

There is genuine craft in Gun\’s world. The story missions are scripted well, the voice acting is solid, and the frontier atmosphere is one of the best pre-Red Dead Redemption attempts at the genre.

Closest GTA comparison: GTA San Andreas, reskinned to the Wild West. If you like one, try the other.

6. Road Rash (1994)

Developer: Electronic Arts | Release: 1994 (PC) | Size: ~500MB | Available: Abandonware sites

Minimum specs: 486 processor, 8MB RAM. Runs on anything with a screen.

Road Rash is not an open world game. It is on this list for one reason: it is the purest representation of the GTA mindset available at 500MB. You race motorcycles on public roads and punch, kick, and chain-whip opponents to stay ahead. Police chase you. Opponents knock you off your bike. It is chaotic, violent, and completely fun.

Every Indian who had a PC in the late 1990s or early 2000s has a Road Rash story. It was on every pirated CD compilation. The Electronic Arts classic is now abandonware and freely available online. The game runs in DOSBox which is a free download.

The driving-and-combat feel is what connects it to GTA. It does not have missions in the GTA sense, no open city, no story to speak of. But the energy of causing destruction while driving at high speed is exactly what GTA taps into. Road Rash does it at 500MB with no GPU requirement.

7. Bully: Scholarship Edition

Developer: Rockstar Games | Release: 2008 (PC) | Size: ~4.7GB on Steam | Available: Steam

Minimum specs: 3.8GHz Pentium 4, 1GB RAM, DirectX 9 GeForce 6800 or better. Runs well on Intel HD 4000 at low settings.

Bully is Rockstar making a GTA game set in a boarding school. You are Jimmy Hopkins, new student at Bullworth Academy. Same structure as GTA: complete missions, navigate a social hierarchy, explore a semi-open environment, get into fights, and do activities on the side. The tone is lighter than GTA but the game design DNA is identical.

At 4.7GB it is one of the larger small-size options on this list but still dramatically smaller than GTA 4 or 5. The PC port is notoriously janky with some controller and frame rate issues but community patches on PCGamingWiki fix most of them. It is worth the 20 minutes of troubleshooting because the core game is excellent.

If you have played every GTA game and want more Rockstar but less crime, Bully is the answer. The writing is genuinely funny, the school environment is charming, and the mission design is classic Rockstar.

Closest GTA comparison: GTA Vice City stories but in a school. Rockstar\’s fingerprints are all over it.

8. Just Cause 2

Developer: Avalanche Studios | Release: 2010 | Size: ~4.5GB on Steam | Available: Steam

Minimum specs: 2GHz dual-core CPU, 2GB RAM, DirectX 10 GPU with 256MB VRAM (GeForce 8800 GT equivalent). Intel HD 4000 barely manages at 720p low.

Just Cause 2 is GTA\’s chaos mode turned up to maximum. Rico Rodriguez lands on a fictional Southeast Asian island the size of a small country and starts blowing things up. Cars, helicopters, jets, military bases, oil rigs, entire towns. The grappling hook lets you attach enemies to propane tanks and launch them into the air. The physics engine is one of the most entertaining ever built.

The open world here is massive compared to anything else on this list. The map is 1000 square kilometers. That is bigger than GTA 5\’s map. At 4.5GB you are getting more playable area per gigabyte than almost any other game in history.

The story is deliberately absurd and thin. The game knows this. It does not pretend to be a narrative experience. You are here to cause chaos and complete faction missions to unlock more chaos. Works perfectly.

Intel HD 4000 users: at 720p, all settings minimum, frame rates hover around 25-30fps which is playable. This is one of the few games at this size where hardware does become a real consideration. 4GB RAM is fine for the game itself.

Closest GTA comparison: GTA San Andreas with infinite jets, explosions, and no consequence for any of it.

9. True Crime: Streets of LA

Developer: Luxoflux | Release: 2004 (PC) | Size: ~3GB | Available: Disc only (Activision no longer distributes digitally)

Minimum specs: 1GHz processor, 512MB RAM, DirectX 8.1 GPU with 32MB VRAM. Runs on any early 2000s PC hardware.

True Crime: Streets of LA is the GTA competitor that almost matched Rockstar in 2004. You play as Nick Kang, an LAPD officer working both sides of the law. The game scanned real Los Angeles streets from satellite data and built a playable version of the actual city. Police badge, car chases, gunfights, hand-to-hand combat, and a branching mission structure where good and bad cop choices change how the story plays out.

At roughly 3GB it fits comfortably alongside San Andreas in both size and era. The PC port was not as polished as the console versions but it works fine on modern Windows with compatibility mode. The game is not on any digital platform because Activision never re-released it and the licensing is complicated. Physical disc is your only official option.

The driving physics are solid. The hand-to-hand combat system uses different martial arts styles you unlock through the game, which San Andreas also borrowed in its own way. Playing it in 2026 you notice the dated graphics and some clunky mission scripting but the core loop holds.

Closest GTA comparison: GTA San Andreas but you are a cop who can also be a criminal if you want.

10. Scarface: The World is Yours

Developer: Radical Entertainment | Release: 2006 (PC 2007) | Size: ~3GB | Available: Disc only

Minimum specs: 1.5GHz processor, 512MB RAM, DirectX 9 GPU with 128MB VRAM. Low end hardware handles it fine.

Scarface: The World is Yours is a GTA game wearing a movie license. Tony Montana survived the ending of the 1983 film (yes, they retconned it) and rebuilds his drug empire from scratch across an open world Miami. Same structure as GTA Vice City but with Tony Montana\’s voice, the Scarface mansion, and a drug trade economic system layered on top of the standard open world missions.

The game is not officially available on any digital platform. Radical Entertainment shut down in 2012 and the Vivendi/Sierra license for the Scarface game expired. Physical DVD copies exist through Indian used game shops and grey market sellers. It installs and runs without issues on Windows 10.

The \’Balls meter\’ mechanic where talking trash and killing enemies fills a rage bar that then makes Tony invincible for a short time is exactly the kind of over-the-top feature that makes these older crime games fun. No modern game would ship this mechanic.

Closest GTA comparison: GTA Vice City but with Tony Montana. Same Miami setting, same crime empire building, same 1980s vibe.

11. The Godfather: The Game (2006)

Developer: EA Games | Release: 2006 (PC) | Size: ~3GB | Available: Disc only

Minimum specs: 1.8GHz processor, 512MB RAM, DirectX 9 GPU with 64MB VRAM. Ancient hardware friendly.

EA took the Godfather film license and built an open world crime game out of it. You play an unnamed Corleone soldier rising through New York\’s five families in the 1940s. The city is open, businesses are extortable, rival gang territories are takeable, and the missions are pulled from the film\’s plot. Brando recorded lines for the game before his death. It is a real production.

The game predates GTA IV by two years and shows. The city feels smaller and the mechanics are rougher. But for a 3GB open world crime game set in 1940s New York, the Godfather holds up well. The extortion system, where you walk into a shopfront and intimidate the owner into paying protection money, is genuinely satisfying in a way no game since has replicated.

Not on Steam. Not on GOG. EA lost the Paramount license years ago and has never re-released it digitally. Indian PC shops with old game stock sometimes have the DVD. Online grey market stores have it occasionally.

Closest GTA comparison: GTA III in structure but set 60 years earlier with a famous movie skin over it.

12. Saints Row 2

Developer: Volition | Release: 2008 (PC 2009) | Size: ~6GB | Available: Free on GOG / Steam

Minimum specs: 2GHz dual-core CPU, 2GB RAM, DirectX 9 GeForce 7900 or equivalent.

Saints Row 2 is permanently free on GOG. That alone makes it worth having. It is also one of the most criminally underrated open world crime games of the last 20 years.

The game came out when everyone was comparing it to GTA IV. GTA IV went serious, grounded, cinematic. Saints Row 2 went the opposite direction. Fireworks launcher that shoots people into the sky. Septic truck missions where you spray sewage on buildings to lower their property value. A custom character creator that lets you make your gang boss look like whatever you want. The city of Stilwater is big, detailed, and stuffed with activities.

The PC port has always been rough. Frame rate issues, crashes, and bizarre physics bugs exist out of the box. The fix is the Gentlemen of the Row community patch which is a free download that resolves almost all of them. Install the game, install the patch, then play. Takes 15 minutes total setup time.

At 6GB on GOG it is completely free and one of the best GTA alternatives ever made. Prioritise this one.

Closest GTA comparison: GTA San Andreas but louder, more chaotic, and more willing to be silly about it.

13. Saints Row: The Third

Developer: Volition | Release: 2011 | Size: ~7.4GB on Steam | Available: Steam

Minimum specs: 2GHz dual-core CPU, 4GB RAM, DirectX 10 GPU with 512MB VRAM (GeForce 8800 GT or Radeon HD 4850). Intel HD 4000 struggles at this one.

If Saints Row 2 was GTA turned chaotic, The Third is chaotic turned into a full identity. The opening mission of Saints Row: The Third involves a bank heist where your crew wears giant head masks of yourselves, a police helicopter attack mid-heist, and a skydiving fistfight. That is the first ten minutes. The game never calms down.

Steelport is smaller than Stilwater but denser. The activities are wilder. The Professor Genki\’s Super Ethical Reality Climax side mission is legendary. A jet with miniguns that you get an hour into the campaign.

Hardware note: this is the most demanding game before Sleeping Dogs and Mafia II on this list. If your laptop struggles with Saints Row 2, The Third will be worse. 4GB RAM is required, not recommended. Intel HD 4000 will run it at around 20fps minimum settings 720p which is marginal. If you have a budget GT 710 or 1030, performance jumps significantly.

The game goes on sale on Steam for under Rs 200 regularly. Worth having.

Closest GTA comparison: GTA San Andreas if someone removed all the realism sliders and replaced them with absurdity sliders.

14. Sleeping Dogs (2012)

Developer: United Front Games | Release: 2012 | Size: ~7.7GB (Standard 2012 version) | Available: Steam

Minimum specs: 2.4GHz dual-core, 4GB RAM, DirectX 10 GPU with 512MB VRAM. Note: the Definitive Edition is 17GB and more demanding. Check which version you are buying on Steam.

Important: Steam now primarily sells the Definitive Edition at 17GB. If low storage is critical, search specifically for Sleeping Dogs (not Definitive Edition) or check GOG where the standard version is still available. The Definitive Edition installs at nearly double the file size with higher texture requirements.

Sleeping Dogs is the best GTA alternative on this list if pure game quality is the metric. You play as Wei Shen, an undercover cop embedded in Hong Kong\’s Sun On Yee triad. Hong Kong is open world, the story is excellent, the hand-to-hand combat system is exceptional (the best in any GTA-style game), and the driving through narrow Hong Kong streets is thrilling.

The reason it sits at number 14 instead of number 1 is the spec requirement. 4GB RAM is genuine minimum here. Intel HD 4000 will struggle. A budget discrete GPU makes a big difference. For anyone with a GT 1030 or RX 550, this is the game to install first from this list.

Closest GTA comparison: GTA IV\’s serious crime drama tone but set in Hong Kong with vastly superior melee combat.

15. Mafia II

Developer: 2K Czech | Release: 2010 | Size: ~8-9GB on Steam | Available: Steam

Minimum specs: 2.4GHz dual-core CPU, 2GB RAM, DirectX 9 GPU with 256MB VRAM. Runs well on older discrete GPUs.

Mafia II is the most story-driven game on this list. Vito Scaletta returns from World War II to a fictional American city in the 1940s-1950s and slowly builds his position in the mob. The game is linear compared to GTA but it uses that linearity to tell a good crime narrative. The map is open between missions, you can drive around, rob stores, and interact with the world.

The city of Empire Bay is beautiful for a 2010 game. The period detail, the music from the era, the cars, the fashion. 2K Czech clearly studied the Goodfellas and Godfather visual language. Every scene has a production quality that 2024 games occasionally still do not match.

The sequel, Mafia III, is 36GB and far more demanding. Mafia: Definitive Edition (the 2020 remake of Mafia I) is 20GB. Mafia II at 8-9GB is the sweet spot for this series on low end hardware. The base game on Steam installs around 8-9GB. Some listings show slightly different sizes based on included DLC.

Closest GTA comparison: GTA IV in mood and tone. Slower paced, more cinematic, less chaos-focused but the quality of the world and story compensates fully.

Why These Games Feel Like GTA

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GTA works because it combines four things that almost no other game gets right simultaneously: an open world you can go anywhere in, vehicles you can drive anywhere with, missions that use both the world and the vehicles, and the freedom to ignore all of that and just cause trouble.

The formula sounds simple. Making all four elements feel good together is genuinely hard. Most open world games get the map right but the driving wrong. Or the missions right but the world feels empty between them. GTA San Andreas solved this problem in 2004 and Rockstar has not significantly changed the formula since.

Here is how the games on this list map to those four elements:

Best for open world freedom: Just Cause 2 has the biggest map and the most freedom to go anywhere. Nothing in the world will stop you. The grappling hook and parachute mean vertical exploration is possible too. Saints Row 2 and The Third are second here.

Best for driving: Sleeping Dogs has the best driving feel in a restricted city environment. Just Cause 2 has the most vehicle variety. GTA San Andreas has the most memorable cars by cultural association (the Lowrider, the Savanna, the Sultan).

Best for missions: Mafia II has the best mission writing. Every mission tells a chapter of a real story. Sleeping Dogs is second. Saints Row 2 has the most creative mission variety.

Best for chaos: Just Cause 2 wins by a wide margin. Nothing matches the destruction physics engine. Saints Row: The Third is second. Total Overdose has moments that match this energy despite its age.

Best for Indian nostalgia: GTA San Andreas, GTA Vice City, and Total Overdose are the cybercafe trinity. Every other game on this list came after the era when these three dominated LAN shops across the country. Playing them in 2026 is not nostalgia for a worse time. The games are good.

Games Other Sites Recommend as “Like GTA” That Will Not Run on Low End PCs

These four games come up constantly on lists titled “games like GTA” and they are good games. They will not run on the hardware most people reading this article have.

Cyberpunk 2077 (70GB, GTX 1060 minimum recommended): Cyberpunk is an excellent open world crime RPG set in Night City. The minimum GPU on the system requirements page is a GTX 780 but the game runs badly at minimum on anything under a GTX 1060. Your 4GB RAM laptop is not the target audience. The game is also 70GB which is the same scale as GTA 5.

Watch Dogs 2 (17GB, GTX 660 minimum): Watch Dogs 2 in San Francisco is one of the best GTA alternatives made in the last decade. It requires a dedicated GPU at GTX 660 or R9 270X minimum. Integrated graphics will not manage this game at any playable frame rate. The install size at 17GB is also too large for the hardware constraints this list addresses.

Red Dead Redemption 2 (150GB, GTX 1060 recommended): RDR2 is one of the greatest games ever made. It is also 150GB, requires 12GB RAM minimum officially, and needs a serious GPU. It is on the opposite end of the spectrum from every game on this list. Any site listing RDR2 as a game for low end PCs has not tested it on low end PCs.

Saints Row (2022 reboot, 15GB, GTX 1070 recommended): The 2022 Saints Row reboot tried to capture the open world chaos of the earlier games. Reception was mixed. More importantly for this list, it needs a GTX 1070 for good performance, requires 16GB RAM, and ships at 15GB. Not a low end PC game by any definition.

This is not a criticism of these games. They are high-quality productions that require high-quality hardware. Any article recommending them for low end PCs is giving bad advice to Indian gamers who will download them and then find they cannot run them.

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Frequently Asked Questions

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What games are similar to GTA but run on low end PCs?

GTA San Andreas (3.6GB), GTA Vice City (1.6GB), GTA III (1GB), Total Overdose (1GB), Bully Scholarship Edition (4.7GB), Just Cause 2 (4.5GB), Saints Row 2 (6GB, free on GOG), Mafia II (8-9GB), Sleeping Dogs standard version (7.7GB), Gun (1.6GB), True Crime: Streets of LA (3GB), The Godfather (3GB), and Scarface: The World is Yours (3GB) all run on budget hardware with 4GB RAM.

Which is the smallest game like GTA for PC?

Road Rash at 500MB is the smallest game on this list that captures GTA\’s crime-and-chaos energy. GTA III at 1GB is the smallest with a proper open world. Total Overdose and Gun are both around 1-1.6GB and have full open world crime gameplay.

Can GTA San Andreas run on 4GB RAM?

Yes. GTA San Andreas officially requires 256MB RAM and runs on a 1GHz processor. On modern 4GB RAM laptops with Windows 10 or 11, it runs without any issues at 1080p. The 3.6GB Steam version works straight out of the box on almost any hardware made in the last 15 years.

Is Mafia II good for low end PCs?

Mafia II requires 2GB RAM and a DirectX 9 GPU with 256MB VRAM at minimum. A budget GT 710 handles it at low settings. Intel HD 4000 is borderline but functional at 720p minimum settings. The install sits at 8-9GB on Steam.

What is Total Overdose and why is it compared to GTA?

Total Overdose (2005) is a Mexican-themed third-person action game with open city exploration, carjacking, shootouts, and mission-based crime progression. The structure is nearly identical to GTA San Andreas. The game weighs about 1GB and is one of the most popular GTA alternatives from the Indian cybercafe era.

Does Just Cause 2 run on Intel HD graphics?

Just Cause 2 can run on Intel HD 4000 at 720p, all settings minimum, at approximately 25-30fps. It is playable but marginal. A budget GT 1030 dramatically improves performance. The install is 4.5GB on Steam.

Is Saints Row 2 better than GTA San Andreas for low end PCs?

GTA San Andreas is less demanding. San Andreas runs on 256MB RAM and integrated graphics from 2004. Saints Row 2 requires a GeForce 7900 equivalent. However, Saints Row 2 is free on GOG which makes it worth the slightly higher hardware requirement. Both are excellent.

Which Sleeping Dogs version should I get for low end PC?

Get the original Sleeping Dogs (2012), not the Definitive Edition. The original is 7.7GB. The Definitive Edition is 17GB with higher texture requirements. Both are sold on Steam so check the version before purchasing.

Is Bully: Scholarship Edition playable on a low end laptop?

Yes. Bully Scholarship Edition requires 1GB RAM and a GeForce 6800 equivalent at minimum. Laptops from 2015 onward with Intel HD 4000 handle it fine at 720p. Install size is 4.7GB on Steam. Apply the PC fix patches from PCGamingWiki before playing.

Why does GTA 5 not work on low end PCs?

GTA 5 requires 8GB RAM, 72GB storage, and a minimum NVIDIA 9800 GT or AMD HD 4870 with 1GB VRAM. Budget laptops with 4GB RAM and no dedicated GPU simply cannot run it. The game also performs better with an SSD rather than a mechanical hard drive.

Are there any free games like GTA for PC?

Saints Row 2 is permanently free on GOG. Road Rash is abandonware and freely available through preservation sites. GTA III, Vice City, and San Andreas are very cheap on Steam and often on sale for under Rs 100.

What is Gun (2005) and is it like GTA?

Gun by Neversoft is a Western open world crime game from 2005. You ride horses, rob stagecoaches, shoot outlaws, and complete missions across an 1880s frontier map. The open world mission structure is directly comparable to GTA. Install is 1.6GB but the game has been removed from digital storefronts so physical disc or grey market is the only option.

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Harsh Talreja edits Gaming Nation from a Mumbai bedroom desk and a Bangalore hotel desk on alternate months. He has been writing about PC hardware, gaming peripherals and Indian gaming cafes for 6 years, with hands-on time on every major PC component category sold in India under Rs 2,00,000 (RTX 3050 to RTX 4070 Super, Ryzen 5 5600 to Ryzen 7 7700X, every B550 and B650 mainstream board, 144Hz IPS to 240Hz OLED, Razer DeathAdder to Logitech G502 Hero). He has visited and benchmarked over 18 gaming cafes across Mumbai, Bangalore, Pune, Delhi, Hyderabad, Chennai, Kolkata and Amritsar. Plays BGMI at Crown tier, Valorant at Diamond, daily-drives a 5800X3D plus RX 7600 build at home. Outside Gaming Nation, Harsh works as an SEO partner for Indian startups (he can be reached on LinkedIn for that work). All Indian retail prices on this site are checked monthly against Amazon.in and Flipkart, all hardware claims are checked against RTINGS, Tom's Hardware, NotebookCheck, and Hardware Unboxed where applicable.