GTA 5 100 percent guide

This GTA 5 100 percent guide will help you understand what you have to do to complete the game 100 percent and how you can do it easily. This game is undeniably massive and can keep you engaged for a while. Completing it to the fullest will take more time and effort compared to playing the game casually.

Therefore, you are advised to take the task at hand seriously and dedicate your best to the game. Several long activities will certainly test your patience. Once you pass through all of them, you will have a bunch of trophies, achievements, and unique rewards.

Note: Some parts of this GTA 5 100 percent guide are subjective and only reflect the writer’s opinions.

GTA 5 100 percent guide: What you need to do

It is a long road to completing GTA 5 Story Mode to the fullest (Image via Rockstar Games)

If you sit down to complete the main story of GTA 5, it will take you around 15 hours, given you play the game nonstop. However, if your goal is to complete the entire game, the duration may extend up to 20 hours. We advise you not to play the game continuously and instead do it step-by-step.

Rockstar Games has included the following amount of things in GTA 5 Story Mode:

Story Missions: 69
Strangers and Freaks missions: 66
Random Events: 60
Hobbies and Pastimes: 61
Miscellaneous Tasks: 30

Thankfully, you only need to do the following amounts of tasks from each category:

Story Missions: 69
Strangers and Freaks missions: 20
Random Events: 14
Hobbies and Passtimes: 42
Miscellaneous Tasks: 16

Regardless, completing the decade-old game can be a big task. If you are not playing the game for the first time, there is a chance that you have already completed a fraction of the journey. We advise you to check your progress first. For that, follow any of these two steps:

Checking the progress within the game:

Open the pause menu of the game.
Go to the Stats tab.
Scroll down to the 100% Checklist option to see your progress.

A screenshot of the 100 percent checklist graph (Image via Rockstar Games)

Using the Rockstar Social Club to check progress:

Go to the Rockstar Games official website on your real-life browser.
Click on the Games tab and select GTA 5.
Click on the Story tab and select Stats. The Career Overview page should appear there.

You should ideally use the second method as it gives you more details of your progress. The in-game method only gives you the number of activities, whereas the website gives you the names of the missions as well.

Also read: GTA 5 strategy guide

List of all Story Missions for Grand Theft Auto 5’s 100 percent completion

Completing the GTA 5 Story Missions will take the longest time (Image via Rockstar Games)

Rockstar Games included 69 story missions in Grand Theft Auto 5 single-player mode that collectively covers 55 percent of the game:

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
Deep Inside
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
Ending 1 - Something Sensible
Ending 2 - The Time's Come
Ending 3 - The Third Way

These missions cover from the Prologue to the Finale. You should note that while the first few and last few missions are in chronological order, a majority of the missions in the middle can be completed without any strict order. However, if you have read the GTA 5 Stock Market Guide, you might know that Lester’s Assassination Missions should be kept for later to reap benefits from the in-game trading market.

Lester Crest offers five assassination missions that have a direct impact on the in-game stock market. Therefore, we advise you to do The Hotel Assassination mission whenever prompted and keep the rest of the missions until you complete the finale. You just have to ignore the green L marker on the map after The Hotel Assassination mission.

Also note that the finale has the following three options:

Option A: Kill Trevor (Something Sensible).
Option B: Kill Michael (The Time's Come).
Option C: Deathwish (The Third Way).

While you can choose any of the missions and get the progress, we recommend you choose Option C: Deathwish (The Third Way) for various gameplay-related reasons.

List of all Strangers and Freaks missions for Grand Theft Auto 5’s 100 percent completion

Strangers and Freaks missions in GTA 5 are filled with witty humor (Image via Rockstar Games)

You must complete 24 Strangers & Freaks missions to increase your progress by 10 percent. As the name suggests, these missions are given by a few NPCs that are not related to the main storyline. While the characters are not random, from the gameplay’s perspective, you will meet them randomly as you explore and roam the State of San Andreas.

Another thing to note is that while every Grand Theft Auto 5 protagonist meets some random characters that give them Strangers and Freaks missions, only the NPCs met by Franklin Clinton are counted towards the goal in hand. Therefore, you must keep playing as Franklin if you want to progress faster.

The following are the characters and the Strangers and Freaks missions given by them to Franklin Clinton:

Tonya Wiggins

Pulling Favors
Pulling Another Favor
Pulling Favors Again
Still Pulling Favors
Pulling One Last Favor

Beverly Felton

Paparazzo
Paparazzo - The Sex Tape
Paparazzo - The Partnership
Paparazzo - The Meltdown
Paparazzo - The Highness
Paparazzo - Reality Check

Barry

Grass Roots - Franklin
Grass Roots - The Pickup
Grass Roots - The Drag
Grass Roots - The Smoke-In

Dominic "Dom" Beasley

Risk Assessment
Liquidity Risk
Targeted Risk
Uncalculated Risk

Hao

Shift Work

Mary-Ann Quinn

Exercising Demons

Omega

Far Out
The Final Frontier

Peter Dreyfuss

A Starlet in Vinewood

Once Franklin Clinton meets these characters, keep on looking for their missions to progress through this part faster.

List of all Random Events for Grand Theft Auto 5’s 100 percent completion

Rockstar Games made the Random Events in Grand Theft Auto 5 time and location-sensitive (Image via Rockstar Games)

While there are specific Story Missions and Strangers and Freaks missions that contribute to the 100 percent completion of the game, the Random Events are not specifically defined. Rockstar Games includes 60 Random Events in the game and you must do 14 of them to increase your progress by five percent. These could be any 14 missions from the following list:

Abandoned Vehicle 1
Abandoned Vehicle 2
Arrests 1
Arrests 2
ATM Robbery
Bike Thief City 1
Bike Thief City 2
Border Patrol 1
Border Patrol 2
Border Patrol 3
Burial
Bus Tour
Car Theft 1
Car Theft 2
Chase Thieves City 1
Chase Thieves City 2
Chase Thieves Country 1
Chase Thieves Country 2
Construction Accident
Countryside Gang Fight
Countryside Robbery
Crash Rescue
Deal Gone Wrong
Domestic
Drug Shootout
Drunk Driver 1
Drunk Driver 2
Escape Paparazzi
Gang Intimidation
Getaway Driver
Hitch Lift 1
Hitch Lift 2
Hitch Lift 3
Hitch Lift 4
Luring Girl into Alley
Mugging 1
Mugging 2
Mugging 3
Prisoner Lift 1
Prisoner Lift 2
Rogue Altruists
Security Van 1
Security Van 2
Security Van 3
Security Van 4
Security Van 5
Security Van 6
Security Van 7
Security Van 8
Security Van 9
Security Van 10
Shop Robbery 1
Shop Robbery 2
Simeon Yetarian
Snatched
Sports Bike Thief
Stag Do Running Man
Duel
Sea Plane
Monkey Mosaic

You should note that some of the Random Events are very difficult to spawn. Therefore, if you see a Random Event spawning on the map, you should do it immediately so that you don’t have to helplessly wander around later. Another thing to note is that the Hitch Lift 1 mission is related to the stock market. You can check out our GTA 5 investment guide to properly utilize the mission.

List of all Hobbies and Pastimes for Grand Theft Auto 5’s 100 percent completion

The Hobbies and Pastimes in Grand Theft Auto 5 can be done in free time (Image via Rockstar Games)

Each of the protagonists in Grand Theft Auto 5 has some Hobbies and Pastime activities that they can do when not engaged in missions. Rockstar Games includes 61 Hobbies and Pastime activities that every character can do more or less. However, you must complete 42 such activities to increase your progress by 10 percent.

You are advised to complete the following Hobbies and Pastime activities in particular:

Flight School Challenges

Training Take Off
Runway Landing
Inverted Flight
Knife Flight
Flat Hatting
Touch Down
Loop the Loop
Helicopter Course
Helicopter Speed Run
Skydiving
Drop Zone
Earn Your Wings

Shooting Range Challenges

Hand Guns
Submachine Guns
Assault Rifles
Shotguns
Light Machine Guns
Heavy weapons

Hao’s Street Races

Shift Work
City Circuit
Airport
Freeway
Vespucci Canals

Off-Road Races

Canyon Cliffs (Bike Race)
Ridge Run (SUV Race)
Mineward Spiral (Bike Race)
Valley Trail (Bike Race)
Lakeside Splash (Bike Race)
Eco Friendly (SUV Race)

Sea Races

Los Santos Port
Power Station
El Gordo
Lago Zancudo

Triathlons

The Vespucci Beach Triathlon
The Alamo Sea Triathlon
The Coyote Cross Country Triathlon

Parachuting (Base Jumps)

Bank Bailout
What Goes Up…
Falling Mouse
Aim for the Fairway
Razor Rock Dive

Parachuting (Helicopter Jumps)

Pacific Tour
Photo Finish
Turbine Terror
The Decline
Runaway Train
Carving the Mountain
The Fall of the Alamo
Dammed If You Don't

Tennis

Win a game

Golf

Win a game

Strip Club

Get a private dance

The Hobbies and Pastime activities are easier and faster to complete. Therefore, we advise you to finish them ASAP.

List of all Miscellaneous Tasks for Grand Theft Auto 5’s 100 percent completion

The Miscellaneous Tasks lets you explore the details Rockstar Games put in GTA 5 (Image via Rockstar Games)

The Miscellaneous Tasks include some very basic and easy tasks that let you progress faster. While there are 30 Miscellaneous Tasks in the game, you should do only the following 16 activities:

Purchase five properties (GTA 5 Business Guide)
Purchase a vehicle in the game.
Walk with Chop and play fetch.
Make a booty call.
Opt for a prostitute service.
Rob a store.
Visit a theater and watch a movie (any duration).
Visit a theater with a friend.
Visit a bar with a friend.
Visit the Strip Club with a friend.
Play darts with a friend.
Collect 50 spaceship parts.
Collect 50 letter scraps.
Complete any 25 Stunt Jumps.
Complete any 25 Under The Bridge stunts.
Complete any eight Knife Flights.

Completing these activities will increase your progress by 20 percent. If you have followed the GTA 5 100 percent guide thoroughly, then you should complete the entire game by now. The rewards for achieving this goal are as follows: