Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition
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Action-focused open-world crime gameplay from Rockstar North, published by Rockstar Games. The 2020 Complete Edition lists 173,714 Steam reviews with 83% positive, a mostly positive signal at a $19.99 initial price.
Overview
Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition is a 2020 Action game developed by Rockstar North and published by Rockstar Games. On Steam it has gathered 173,869 player reviews, 83% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Rockstar North with publisher Rockstar Games is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 6.8 million to 15.8 million units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
173,869
Positive
83%
Steam appid
12210
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.06.8M to 15.8M
units (median: 11.3M)
≈ $77.4M to $180.7M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2020 | +15 |
| price_$20 | 0 |
| positive_83% | 0 |
| final NB | 65 |
Confidence range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use a multi-factor Boxleiter method against public Steam review counts.
They are not authoritative sales data. Actual sales can deviate by
±50% in either direction. Free-to-play games, deeply discounted titles, and games
with heavy bundle distribution have larger error margins. Algorithm version
v1.0.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition at roughly 6.8 million to 15.8 million copies, with a median around 11.3 million, derived from its 173,869 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $129.0M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
90d · low $11.41Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $11.41 to $19.99, averaging $18.92 across 2 discount windows, with a historical low of $11.41 on 2026-04-21.
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Where to buy
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Platforms
windows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition sold?
- indielist estimates Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition has sold between 6,780,891 and 15,822,079 units (median 11,301,485), derived from its 173,869 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition?
- Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition was developed by Rockstar North and published by Rockstar Games.
- When was Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition released?
- Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition was released in 2020.
- How many reviews does Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition have on Steam?
- Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition has 173,869 Steam reviews, of which 83% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition within the Action segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Rockstar North's other releases and Rockstar Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.