Collectibles in every GTA game: how many there were, from GTA III to GTA V

Rockstar hasn't announced any collectibles for GTA VI. The best guide we have is what it did before, so here is every major set in one place.

The numbers

Game	Collectible	How many
GTA III	Hidden packages	100
GTA Vice City	Hidden packages	100
GTA San Andreas	Spray tags	100
GTA San Andreas	Snapshots	50
GTA San Andreas	Horseshoes	50
GTA San Andreas	Oysters	50
GTA San Andreas	Unique stunt jumps	70
GTA IV	Pigeons	200
GTA IV	Unique stunt jumps	50
GTA V	Spaceship parts	50
GTA V	Letter scraps	50
GTA V	Nuclear waste barrels	30
GTA V	Submarine pieces	30
GTA V	Stunt jumps	50
GTA V	Under-the-bridge flights	50
GTA V	Knife flights	15
Red Dead Redemption 2	Cigarette cards	144
Red Dead Redemption 2	Dinosaur bones	30
Red Dead Redemption 2	Dreamcatchers	20
Red Dead Redemption 2	Rock carvings	10

We don't count everything here, such as side missions and random events. Sources also differ on some smaller sets, so treat these as the commonly reported totals.

What the pattern shows

• Sets got more themed. The early games used one generic package. Later games tied each set to a character or a story, as with letter scraps and spaceship parts.
• Exploring moved into other places. GTA V sent you underwater and into the air, not only around the streets.
• Totals stayed around 50 to 100 per set. GTA IV's 200 pigeons and Red Dead's 144 cards are the exceptions.
• Not every collectible counted. In some games only part of a set counted toward 100%, which is why we'd wait for the real list.

What this means for GTA VI

None of this tells us what's in GTA VI. It does tell us which kinds of set to watch for, and those are the 13 categories we track. Each one is marked as rumoured until we've seen it in the game. Here's how we label them.