If you’re excited about GTA 6 but can’t stand the wait, here are five great open-world games to get obsessed with in the meantime.
More than ten years after the last entry, Rockstar Games officially announced Grand Theft Auto 6 this week. The long-awaited sequel is coming to PS5 and Xbox Series X/S, but we will have to wait until 2025 to get our hands on it. And that’s barring any delays, which are par for the course when it comes to Rockstar. Even if GTA 6 does launch in 2025, that’s a pretty long wait, so here are five excellent open-world games to keep you busy until then.Cyberpunk 2077
Developer/Publisher: CD Projekt Red/CD Projekt
Systems: PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PC
Release date: December 10, 2020
Cyberpunk 2077 is the closest any developer has come to creating a living, breathing city on par with GTA 5’s Los Santos. This futuristic open-world shooter had more than its fair share of issues at launch, but the developer CD Projekt Red has spent the past three years patching, reworking, and adding new features to the game. The result is one of the most impressive turnarounds for any game in the last few years — right up there with No Man’s Sky.
Every block of Night City is filled with some of the most compelling and unique side missions of any open-world game. The campaign is worth the price of admission alone, but if you really click with Cyberpunk 2077, you could easily spend dozens of hours exploring, collecting, fighting, and upgrading without ever getting bored.
