Follow CJ from Grove Street to San Fierro, the desert and Las Venturas, then return to Los Santos for the finale. Choose a region or mission below for objectives, practical routes and common failure points.
What this walkthrough covers
The catalogue contains 100 mission entries plus In the Beginning. It includes the optional Zero, Wang Cars and Caligula’s heist branches, as well as driving school and the mandatory flying school. Catalina’s introductory scenes are covered together with their robberies rather than counted as four extra pages.
Several contacts offer work at the same time. Use this list as a reading order, then follow the markers and calls available in your save. Catalina’s four robberies can be completed in a different order. Previous and next links keep the optional mission chains together.
Before starting a difficult mission
Save separately before long operations, replenish health and armour, and check whether the mission needs a particular vehicle or passenger capacity. Some jobs only start during specified hours. Use the control prompts shown by your edition: keyboard, controller and mobile layouts differ, and certain lessons or mission mechanics vary between the classic game and The Definitive Edition.
Story completion and 100%
Reaching End of the Line finishes the story. Full game completion also requires side activities and collectibles outside this story catalogue. Ordinary story missions have no GTA V-style gold-medal checklist; schools use their own medal system, with bronze sufficient for the basic pass.
Full mission list
Los Santos
- In the Beginning Introduction
- Big Smoke
- Sweet & Kendl
- Ryder
- Tagging Up Turf
- Cleaning the Hood
- Drive-Thru
- Nines and AK's
- Drive-By
- Sweet's Girl
- Cesar Vialpando
- Home Invasion
- Catalyst
- Robbing Uncle Sam
- OG Loc
- Running Dog
- Wrong Side of the Tracks
- Just Business
- Life's a Beach
- Madd Dogg's Rhymes
- Management Issues
- House Party
- Burning Desire
- Gray Imports
- Doberman
- Los Sepulcros
- High Stakes, Low Rider
- Reuniting the Families
- The Green Sabre
Countryside
San Fierro
- Wear Flowers in Your Hair
- 555 We Tip
- Deconstruction
- Photo Opportunity
- Jizzy
- Air Raid Optional branch
- Supply Lines… Optional branch
- New Model Army Optional branch
- T-Bone Mendez
- Mike Toreno
- Outrider
- Snail Trail
- Ice Cold Killa
- Back to School Optional branch
- Pier 69
- Toreno's Last Flight
- Mountain Cloud Boys
- Ran Fa Li
- Lure
- Amphibious Assault
- The Da Nang Thang
- Yay Ka-Boom-Boom
- Zeroing In Optional branch
- Test Drive Optional branch
- Customs Fast Track Optional branch
- Puncture Wounds Optional branch
Desert and airstrip
Las Venturas and casino heist
- Fender Ketchup
- Explosive Situation
- You've Had Your Chips
- Don Peyote
- Architectural Espionage Optional branch
- Key to Her Heart Optional branch
- Dam and Blast Optional branch
- Cop Wheels Optional branch
- Up, Up and Away! Optional branch
- Intensive Care
- The Meat Business
- Madd Dogg
- Fish in a Barrel
- Misappropriation
- Freefall
- High Noon
- Saint Mark's Bistro
- Breaking the Bank at Caligula's Optional branch
- A Home in the Hills
Return to Los Santos
Why has the next mission not appeared?
Check the other available contacts, answer phone calls and revisit time-restricted markers during their opening hours. For the casino heist, obtain Millie’s keycard after her introduction. For the final mission, complete the late-story jobs and meet the gang-territory requirement explained in the End of the Line guide.