GTA 5 Missions List: All 69 Story Missions and Side Missions

GTA 5's campaign is a 60-plus-hour crime saga split across three protagonists, and it is easy to lose track of where you are in it. This list lays out the full story in order, then covers the side content. Missions appear on your map as letter icons for whoever is giving them — and if the map ever looks empty, you usually need to wait for a phone call or switch to a different protagonist and check what is available to them.

How the Mission Count Breaks Down

All Main Story Missions in Order

1. Prologue
2. Franklin and Lamar
3. Repossession
4. Complications
5. Father/Son
6. Marriage Counseling
7. Daddy's Little Girl
8. Chop
9. The Long Stretch
10. Friend Request
11. Casing the Jewel Store
12. Carbine Rifles
13. Bugstars Equipment
14. BZ Gas Grenades
15. The Jewel Store Job
16. Mr. Philips
17. Nervous Ron
18. Trevor Philips Industries
19. Crystal Maze
20. Friends Reunited
21. Fame or Shame
22. Dead Man Walking
23. Three's Company
24. By the Book
25. Scouting the Port
26. Minisub
27. Cargobob
28. The Merryweather Heist
29. Did Somebody Say Yoga?
30. Hood Safari
31. The Hotel Assassination
32. Masks
33. Boiler Suits
34. Trash Truck
35. Tow Truck
36. Blitz Play
37. I Fought the Law…
38. Eye in the Sky
39. Mr. Richards
40. Caida Libre
41. Minor Turbulence
42. Paleto Score Setup
43. Military Hardware
44. Predator
45. The Paleto Score
46. Derailed
47. Monkey Business
48. Hang Ten
49. Surveying the Score
50. Bury the Hatchet
51. Pack Man
52. Fresh Meat
53. Cleaning out the Bureau
54. Architect's Plans
55. Fire Truck
56. Reuniting the Family
57. The Bureau Raid
58. The Wrap Up
59. Lamar Down
60. The Ballad of Rocco
61. Legal Trouble
62. Meltdown
63. Planning the Big Score
64. Stingers
65. Gauntlet
66. Driller
67. Sidetracked
68. The Big Score
69. The Final Mission — one of Something Sensible, The Time's Come or The Third Way, depending on your choice

The Story Heists

Six of the main missions are full heists, and they work differently from everything around them: you scout the target, choose an approach, pick a crew and gather equipment in set-up missions before the score itself. The chain runs from The Jewel Store Job through The Merryweather Heist, Blitz Play, The Paleto Score and The Bureau Raid, up to The Big Score. Crew choices matter beyond flavour — skilled accomplices take a bigger cut but make the job cleaner, while cheap crew members can cost you money, time or lives mid-mission. Preparation missions such as Carbine Rifles, Masks, Boiler Suits and Gauntlet exist purely to feed into these scores, which is why the list above breaks the heists into so many individual entries.

Side Missions: Strangers and Freaks

The 37 Strangers and Freaks missions begin as chance encounters, marked with a question mark on the map, and grow into short storylines with some of Los Santos' strangest residents. Each protagonist has his own set: Franklin tows cars for Tonya in the Pulling Favors chain and chases extreme sports with Dom in the Risk Assessment missions; Michael deals with the Epsilon Program and his own Exercising Demons run; Trevor gets the five Rampage missions and the Civil Border Patrol. Others, like the Paparazzo missions and A Starlet in Vinewood, are beloved detours worth doing even though the main story never requires them.

Lester's Assassination Missions

Franklin's five assassination jobs for Lester — The Hotel Assassination, The Multi-Target Assassination, The Vice Assassination, The Bus Assassination and The Construction Assassination — deserve a special note: each one moves specific stocks, and investing before and after them is the single best way to make money in story mode. Only The Hotel Assassination is required to advance the plot, so experienced players save the other four until after The Big Score, when they have the most cash to invest.