What sports and minigames are in GTA 6?

Not everything in the official GTA 6 material is a crime. This page gathers five pastimes that are on screen, says what each frame does and does not show, and sets the last game’s sports beside them.

What the material shows

Basketball has a press screenshot shot from above: a blue court and a green one side by side on a raised deck, a player in pink well out on the blue court with both arms raised towards its basket, a ball in the air, and four people on the green surface beside it, one sitting and one holding a second ball.

On the Vice City beachfront a man is in the air at full stretch under a ball, a second man in a cap behind him and a woman in a wide straw hat watching from the sand. Whether it is volleyball the screenshot does not settle: there is no net anywhere in it, and the ball, brown with a white band, is not a volleyball’s colour. In the same screenshot, further along the sand, a man works a metal detector in front of a yellow timber lifeguard tower: control box in one hand, the coil just clear of the sand, dark over-ear headphones on, which is how a detector is actually used.

Pool is a bar table in magenta light in one of the Cal Hampton screenshots: a man leans in over the table with his cue lined up on the cue ball, the yellow 1 beyond it and the black 8 by the far rail, and Cal Hampton opposite with a can in his hand, watching. Mini golf is a whole course in another: green felt fairways between rocks, rope fences on posts, a giant alligator rearing up on the rockwork beside a waterfall, a thatched hut and a crowned dark grey frog, a second player bent over a putt in the middle distance and Cal Hampton in the foreground with a club over his shoulder.

A shot lined up, a man at full stretch and a second golfer bent over a putt are things being done rather than props, and that is what the frames establish. What they do not show is any of the machinery: no score, no stake, no prompt.

What nobody knows

• Which of the five the player can actually play, and which are scenery with people in it.
• Whether there is scoring, betting or a reward, as the pool tables of GTA San Andreas had.
• Whether a game can be played with another character, as golf and tennis could in Grand Theft Auto V.
• Whether there is anything buried for a detector to find.

How Grand Theft Auto V did it

This is the reference, not a prediction, and it is drawn from the GTA Wiki’s pages on the last game. Grand Theft Auto V had three sports with systems of their own. Golf at the Los Santos Golf Club, an entrance fee of $100 for a round of nine holes, with club, stroke type, aim and power to set before each swing; all three protagonists could play, and together as a friend activity, with the one who started the game paying for both rounds. Tennis on eight courts around Los Santos, sets and difficulty chosen before the match and prizes of $14, $25 and $36 for easy, medium and hard, for Michael and Trevor only. Darts at the Yellow Jack Inn after the mission Crystal Maze, 301 down to exactly zero with the last dart on a double or the bull.

Of the five in the GTA 6 material, the last game had none as a playable thing. Pool tables reappeared in GTA V but were, in the wiki’s words, “otherwise not interactable”; the last game where you could play was GTA IV, and in San Andreas you could wager from $50 to $1,000 a frame. The wiki’s basketball page lists San Andreas, where you walked onto a court to pick up the ball, and then nothing until GTA 6. A metal detector exists only in GTA Online, as a tool for the Cayo Perico heist that, in the wiki’s words, “can only be equipped when within the marked search areas”; the wiki says it is based on the Digiscanner from one of GTA V’s Epsilon Program side missions. Mini golf and beach volleyball have no GTA V entry on the pages this site read.

What this page becomes on launch day

From 19 November 2026 this guide is rewritten from the release build: which of the five are playable, how each is started, what it costs and what it pays, each with the date it was tested. Until then the short answer at the top stands.