Full List of GTA 5 Main Story Missions

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Grand Theft Auto 5 is easily one of, if not the most popular games to ever exist. This is proven by how it has been over 10 years since the game was first released but it still continues to be relevant in the gaming space today. However, while GTA Online is what continues to keep the game alive with DLCs and new businesses, what about the base story mode game?

After all, who could forget about the story of Michael, Trevor, and Franklin as they rise up in the criminal underworld of Liberty City and San Andreas to eventually be faced with the ultimate question; who gets to live?

With GTA 6 on the horizon, today we’ll be taking a look at all of the GTA 5 missions from the story mode while also giving a short summary of what players do in the game. This way, you’ll be prepared for anything GTA 6 might throw at you in terms of world-building.

Table of Contents

Every GTA 5 Mission

Below is a list of every mission in GTA 5:

Prologue
Franklin and Lamar
Repossession
Complications
Father/Son
Marriage Counseling
Daddy’s Little Girl
Chop
The Long Stretch
Friend Request
Casing the Jewel Store
Carbine Rifles
Bugstars Equipment
BZ Gas Grenades
The Jewel Store Job
Mr. Philips
Nervous Ron
Trevor Philips Industries
Crystal Maze
Friends Reunited
Fame or Shame
Dead Man Walking
Three’s Company
By the Book
Scouting the Port
Minisub
Cargobob
The Merryweather Heist
Did Somebody Say Yoga?
Hood Safari
The Hotel Assassination
Masks
Boiler Suits
Trash Truck
Tow Truck
Blitz Play
I Fought the Law…
Eye in the Sky
Mr. Richards
Caida Libre
Minor Turbulence
Paleto Score Setup
Military Hardware
Predator
The Paleto Score
Derailed
Monkey Business
Hang Ten
Surveying the Score
Bury the Hatchet
Pack Man
Fresh Meat
Cleaning out the Bureau
Architect’s Plans
Fire Truck
Reuniting the Family
The Bureau Raid
The Wrap Up
Lamar Down
The Ballad of Rocco
Legal Trouble
Meltdown
Planning the Big Score
Stingers
Gauntlet
Driller
Sidetracked
The Big Score

There’s also a last mission, but it depends on what choice you make at the end of the game. Depending on what you select, you have to complete Something Sensible, The Time’s Come, or The Third Way.

GTA 5 Story Summarized

Now that you know which missions you can play in GTA 5’s Story Mode, we figured it might be a good idea to give a summary of the story mode too.

The game begins in 2004, when Michael Townley, Trevor Philips, and Brad Snider tried robbing a bank but it went wrong, resulting in Michael being presumed dead and Trevor escaping. Nine years later, Michael lives with his family in Los Santos after having made a secret agreement with the Federal Investigation Bureau agent Dave Norton to stay hidden.

On the other side of the city, a gangbanger Franklin Clinton meets Michael while attempting to repossess his son’s car. The two become fast friends and eventually develop a mentor/pupil relationship. Things take a turn for the worse when Michael heavily damages a mansion belonging to drug lord Martin Madrazo, who demands compensation, leading Michael to go back to a life of crime and eventually become mortal enemies with billionaire Devin Weston.

Michael and Franklin end up robbing a jewelry shop, which breaks Michael’s agreement with Dave, who then blackmails him, Franklin, and Trevor to perform a series of operations for them. With the final heist of The Union Depository in planning, Trevor discovers that Michael had set him up back in 2004, which caused friction between the three.

At the very end, Franklin is confronted by both Dave and Steve. Dave believes Trevor should be put down, while Steve wants revenge against Michael. At the end of the day, it’s up to the player as Franklin to choose between killing Trevor, killing Michael, or attempting to save both in a suicide mission that goes perfectly.

This concludes everything you need to know about GTA 5’s story mode and its missions. Naturally, this was an extremely condensed version of the events that transpire during the game, and we strongly recommend you play it for yourself. For more on GTA 5, we recommend you check out the fastest GTA 5 cars (ranked).

Hannan Mundia

From the lush land of Hyrule to the underwater city of Rapture, Hannan has spent countless hours in all sorts of video game worlds. When he isn’t playing a game, he’s writing about one, and when he isn’t writing about one, he’s definitely thinking about playing something.