One year after Netflix brought Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy to its growing mobile-gaming library, two of those games are set to leave the service. Netflix has warned users that they will only have until December 13 to play Grand Theft Auto 3 – The Definitive Edition and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City – The Definitive Edition.
While GTA 3 and Vice City are both set to leave the service, it seems like San Andreas is staying on Netflix for a while longer, with the game not displaying the same “Leaving Soon” card as the other two. According to What’s On Netflix, the GTA games were some of the most downloaded in Netflix’s library, with San Andreas easily the most popular of the three.
The GTA Trilogy’s exclusive Netflix mobile release was based on Grove Street Games’ remasters for console and PC, but included a number of extra quality-of-life improvements, including a popular “Classic Lighting” mode. Their removal from Netflix comes just after the console and PC remasters received a major update, which added the Classic Lighting mode and other improvements from the mobile editions.