Kai Cenat goes live at 3 p.m. Eastern today, November 5, to start five Grand Theft Auto games on stream, and he has exactly two weeks before the sixth one lands. The Twitch record-holder will work through GTA III, Vice City, San Andreas, GTA IV and finally GTA V, chat in tow, before Rockstar releases GTA 6 on November 19.
He announced it on X on November 3 in a single all-caps line: “PLAYING GTA 3, VICE CITY, SAN ADREAS, 4 & 5 ALL ON STREAM NOVEMBER 5TH 3PM EST.” A follow-up post fixed the typo with one word, “Andreas.” When Badiyaa checked the original post on the afternoon of November 5 (India time), it showed about 451,000 views, 13,000 likes, 1,200 reposts and 391 replies.
The stream is set for Twitch and YouTube. On Twitch alone his channel counted 21.6 million followers in late October, the most of any streamer on the platform.
Is it really one sitting?
Fan accounts sharing the news described it as five games in one sitting. Cenat’s own post does not say that. It promises all five on stream from a single start time, nothing more. Story campaigns this long are not something anyone clears in one unbroken session, so expect the run to stretch over many broadcasts, even if he keeps the cameras rolling for long stretches.
The math is tight either way. From 3 p.m. on November 5 to launch day on November 19 is 14 days, or 336 hours. Split across five campaigns, that leaves an average of about 67 hours of real time per game, roughly 2.8 days each, and that clock includes sleep, food and any guests he brings on.
Why Vice City matters to him
This is not just a hype play. During a broadcast on November 2, Cenat told viewers, “I know I said this a bunch of times, but I’mma say it one more time,” before retelling how his stepfather handed him Vice City as a kid in Brooklyn. He remembers the game opening on a motorbike with Michael Jackson’s “Billie Jean” on the radio. “My life changed from there,” he said.
He has also admitted that he only drove around San Andreas as a child and never finished its story. In an October 26 stream where he first read out the list, he said, “I don’t even remember how the storyline even went,” and promised viewers he would play the campaigns properly this time instead of free-roaming.
A series older than the streamer
The lineup spans the 3D era of the series, and the first game on it arrived in 2001, the same year Cenat was born. Here is the order he has set, with release years:
- Grand Theft Auto III, 2001
- Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, 2002
- Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, 2004
- Grand Theft Auto IV, 2008
- Grand Theft Auto V, 2013
That is 12 years of releases between the first game and the last, followed by a 13-year wait from GTA V to the November 19 launch of GTA 6 on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S. We covered how that release date was set, and the two delays before it, in our GTA 6 launch timeline.
The warm-up for a bigger marathon
The five-game run is a prelude. Cenat has said for more than a year that he will play GTA 6 to 100 percent completion on stream when it comes out, with no fixed end time, and he has stayed away from leaks to keep that playthrough fresh.
Long-form events are his specialty. His month-long Mafiathon 2 subathon in November 2024 finished with 728,535 Twitch subscribers, and in September 2025 Mafiathon 3 took him past one million. He stepped back from streaming in January 2026 with a YouTube video titled “I Quit,” then returned to Twitch on July 6 after a nine-month break.
He is not the only creator replaying the classics this month, but he has the biggest audience doing it. The first test comes tonight: GTA III, live from 3 p.m. Eastern, with 14 days on the clock until GTA 6 arrives.
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