The best GTA 5 easter eggs

By Ryan Fleming Published August 19, 2020

Grand Theft Auto 5 is available now on Xbox One, Xbox 360, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, and PC. If you are looking for general tips and tricks for the game, check out our GTA 5 guide and be sure to read our GTA 5 review. But the world of Los Santos is massive, and it’s filled with secrets, easter eggs, and things to do that aren’t always obvious. That’s where this list comes in.

We’ll update this list with more videos frequently, so check back often. Beware the possibility of mild NSFW language and inappropriate imagery.

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Giant Ball for the Win

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Hang out with a Zombie

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Head back to GTA: San Andreas’ Grove Street

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Hunt Sasquatch

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The Ghost of Jolene Cranley Evans

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Party at the Playboy Mansion

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Take a Guided Tour of Vinewood

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The UFO above Mt. Chiliad

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Underwater UFO Crash Site

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The best video game Easter Eggs of all time

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As long as there have been video games, there have been secrets hidden within them. There are some things like secret endings to find, but Easter Eggs are more about the fun of finding them than actually adding something to the game. It is a tradition that began at the beginning of the video game console generation timeline and persists to this day. Fans love scouring the biggest open-world games and looking into the code of the best indies to see if there's some secret waiting to be found and shared. We can't wait to see what Easter Eggs are found in all the upcoming video games, but for now, we wanted to look back and round up all the best ones from gaming history.
Adventure - Secret credits

We couldn't start with any other Easter Egg than the one widely considered to be the first one in gaming history. Adventure is a very basic Atari game where you guide a block of pixels around a sprawling map trying to reach a chalace. This was in a period when games didn't have credits, so no one knew who was making them besides the publisher. The solo developer of Adventure wanted to tell the world he made the game, but had to do it in a secret way that Atari wouldn't see and remove. So, Warren Robinett made a secret room in the game that requires players to carry an invisible pixel to a specific place to access where he wrote out "Created by Warren Robinett." He wasn't sure anyone would be able to discover it, but a boy named Adam Clayton managed to somehow figure it out and even wrote to Atari to share his discovery. Thankfully, Robinett had already left the company at that time.
Diablo 2 - The cow level

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