GTA 6 missions: how many there will be and what we know about the story campaign before launch

As of November 5, 2026, it's unknown. Rockstar hasn't published the number of missions, their names or the number of chapters. The game launches on November 19, 2026 on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S, and the exact figure will only be visible in the game itself.

The only indication of scale comes from Rockstar North head Rob Nelson in an interview with The New York Times: his own playthrough took about 80 hours and covered the main story and some of the optional tasks that affect the story. That isn't an official length; more on the how long to beat GTA 6 page.

Unofficial GTA 6 mission lists exist, but we don't reproduce them because they're unconfirmed.

Rockstar describes the setup briefly: Jason and Lucia "have always known the deck is stacked against them." When an easy score goes wrong, they end up on the wrong side of the darkest conspiracy stretching across the state of Leonida, and to survive they have to rely on each other.

The official bios on the Rockstar site show who might give the protagonists work:

• Brian Heder, a veteran drug runner in the Keys; he lets Jason live rent-free in exchange for help with "local business".
• Cal Hampton, Jason's friend, who also works for Brian.
• Raul Bautista, a seasoned bank robber looking for talent for risky jobs.
• Boobie Ike and Dre'Quan Priest, the owners of the Only Raw Records label; the duo Real Dimez is signed to it.

Rockstar hasn't said what role each of them plays in the story. More on the protagonists on the GTA 6 characters page, and the story without spoilers on the GTA 6 story page.

• Chapters. Rockstar Support says Ultimate Edition content is woven into the story and new items unlock "with each chapter". How many chapters there are isn't stated.
• Two protagonists. You can switch between Jason and Lucia. According to Nelson in his Famitsu interview, in some missions switching is locked or automatic, in others it's free.
• Safehouses change from chapter to chapter, and the people living in them follow a schedule, like the camp in Red Dead Redemption 2 (Nelson, Famitsu). Jason's first home is in the Keys.
• Money between missions. Nelson told Famitsu that missions alone won't give you enough money to progress through the story, and according to IGN's summary of his interview, on some stretches of the story you have to earn money first, for example from stolen cars or robberies. How to do it is in our guide on how to make money in GTA 6.
• Joint jobs. One protagonist drives, the other shoots; you can send Lucia alone to deliver the loot (Famitsu).
• The relationship. The player decides whether the protagonists are a couple or partners; the status is shown in the game.

An Extended Look shows one job: as the press describes it, Valentina hires Jason and Lucia to guard businessman Andrés de León at a party celebrating the opening of Megamundo's headquarters in Vice City. What this mission is called and where it falls in the story is unknown.

GTA 6 is a single-player game: there's no online mode at launch, and so no online missions either.

This is data on Rockstar's previous games. The studio doesn't publish official mission counts, so the figures vary depending on how you count.

The discrepancy in GTA 5's figures comes down to choice: the approach you pick for a heist determines which setup missions you play, so you can't see them all in one playthrough. Full lists are on the GTA 5 missions, Strangers and Freaks and RDR2 missions pages.

We'll fill in this page from November 19 as we play through the game. The structure will follow our GTA 5 and RDR2 lists:

• Story missions, by chapter, in the order you play them. Names in English, as in the game.
• Side tasks that affect the story, as a separate section: where to get them and what they change.
• Strangers and random events, if the game has them. In GTA 5 these were Strangers and Freaks, in RDR2 Strangers; Rockstar hasn't said whether GTA 6 has anything similar.
• Endings, without spoilers: only how to get them, and only if there's more than one.

The table will look like this:

What to do in your first hours with the game is in our GTA 6 beginner's guide. We'll announce new missions and chapters on our Telegram channel @gtatop_news.

• Rockstar Newswire: Trailer 2 and the game description (May 6, 2025)
• Rockstar Games: Only in Leonida, characters (checked October 31, 2026)
• Rockstar Support: GTA VI platforms, editions and versions (August 18, 2026)
• Rockstar Newswire: An Extended Look (August 27, 2026)
• GTAVice: Rob Nelson's Famitsu interview (English translation) (September 9, 2026)
• Notebookcheck: story missions alone won't be enough (September 10, 2026)
• GFinity: everything revealed in the Extended Look (August 27, 2026)
• PSU: a developer's playthrough took about 80 hours (citing the NYT, August 28, 2026)