Shortly after launching on PC, Grand Theft Auto 5 Enhanced is having a rocky time on Steam. Several fans of the original (now referred to as Grand Theft Auto 5 Legacy) have taken to leaving negative reviews on the store page. At the time of writing, the Enhanced version is currently sitting at a review aggregate of “Mixed” on Steam, averaging out from 6,255 reviews.
While there are quite a few positive reviews for the title, the negative reviews are in the majority. Complaints in user reviews largely revolve around a few technical issues, like HDR not working for some and migration troubles.
On the other hand, several positive reviews also praise Grand Theft Auto 5 Enhanced for the visual upgrades that it brought to the ageing open-world title, as well as it being a free upgrade for players who already owned the original.
Despite this, however, the release ultimately seems to have been quite successful. In its first day alone, Grand Theft Auto 5 Enhanced has managed to hit a 24-hour peak of 187,059 concurrent players at the time of writing. This essentially makes it the second-most played game right now as of data from SteamDB.
Grand Theft Auto 5 Enhanced was released as a free update for all GTA 5 owners on PC. It brings all the enhancements from the PS5 and Xbox Series X/S versions with players able to migrate all of their story and GTA Online progress into the Enhanced version.
It also brought with it new vehicles, as well as new activities like the Wildlife Photography Challenge. It also makes the on-ramp for new GTA Online players gentler by offering GTA$4,000,000 to start out with.
Grand Theft Auto 5 has generally proven to be incredibly successful for Rockstar as well as publisher Take-Two Interactive. It revealed back in February that the open-world game had sold more than 210 million copies since its 2013 release. This pushed cumulative sales across the GTA franchise up to 440 million units.
Red Dead Redemption 2, also hit an incredible milestone. While not as successful as GTA 5, the open-world western has sold 70 million copies worldwide, with total series sales crossing the 95 million copies mark.
In the meantime, Rockstar is hard at work trying to hit its Fall 2025 release window for Grand Theft Auto 6. While the anticipation surrounding it is no secret, Take-Two boss Strauss Zelnick believes it will be big enough to cause “a meaningful uptick” in console hardware sales.
“When you have a big title in the market, and we have many of them coming, historically that has sold consoles,” Zelnick said in February. “And I think that will happen this year. I don’t think tariffs are going to be our friend, but I think there will be a meaningful uptick in console sales in calendar 25 because of the release schedule, not just coming from us, but coming from others.”
Grand Theft Auto 6 is being developed for PS5 and Xbox Series X/S. Corsair Gaming recently claimed that the PC version could arrive in early 2026. However, it’s since clarified this to be speculation.
