When will GTA 5 go on sale?
The 50% GTA 5 sale on Steam ended on November 5, 2026. When the price should drop back to $14.99, what to expect from the Winter Sale, and whether full price makes any sense.
Expect the next big GTA 5 sale by December 17, 2026 at the latest, the day the Steam Winter Sale starts. That’s our forecast, but the price history backs it up: since March 2025, GTA V Enhanced has hit 50% off in 20 months out of 21. The month-by-month chart is on our GTA 5 page.
The last sale ended on November 5. So right now Steam is charging the full $29.99 or €29.99, and other regions have their own prices.
What counts as a good price
The ceiling is 50%, which means $14.99 or €14.99. Enhanced has never been cheaper in our records, so holding out for 60 or 70% is pointless. August 2026 was the one weak month, when the deepest cut was 34%.
If you’re mostly here for GTA Online, there’s a better deal to watch for. In September 2026 the bundle with the Great White Shark Cash Card (GTA$1.5 million) went for $19.79 instead of $44.99. That’s about $5 on top of the discounted game, a fair price for starting money online.
You don’t need to pick the old Legacy version separately. It comes with Enhanced.
When the next sales are
| Steam sale | Dates | GTA 5 discount |
|---|---|---|
| Winter | December 17, 2026 – January 4, 2027 | forecast: 50% |
| Spring | March 18–25, 2027 | forecast: 50% |
| Summer | June 24 – July 8, 2027 | forecast: 50% |
Rockstar doesn’t announce discounts ahead of time, so this table rests on history: in every month with a big Steam sale since 2025, the price went down to 50%. The remaining dates are in our Steam sale calendar.
December may not even be your first chance. Discounts also show up outside Valve’s calendar. The last one ran until November 5, even though the Steam Autumn Sale was over on October 8. And GTA 6 launches on November 19, with older entries in the series already marked down over the summer ahead of it. Nobody has promised a repeat in November, so treat that as our guess.
Epic Games Store and consoles
The base price on the Epic Games Store is the same, and 50% happens there too. The last sale we could confirm ran until September 17, 2026, and upcoming windows are in our Epic Games sale calendar. The Holiday Sale there starts on December 10, a week before Steam, though nobody knows yet whether GTA 5 will be in it.
We don’t track console prices closely, since those stores run their own promotions. On Xbox in July, for example, the Story Mode edition sold for $9.99, but that’s the single-player part only.
Buy now or wait?
We wouldn’t pay $29.99 in November. The Winter Sale is six weeks away, and the game will most likely be half price by then. If you want it today, think of the extra $15 as the cost of not waiting. Your call.
It’s a different story if you plan to sit out the new game’s PC gap. GTA 6 arrives on consoles only on November 19, and the PC version timing is still unknown, so you’ll have plenty of time for Los Santos. Just clear 125 GB of disk space first.
