Beyond missions: what will you do in Leonida?

For more than a year, Leonida was a state you could picture but not plan a day in. Rockstar's Game Informer cover story changed that: there is now an official list of things to do. What there isn't yet is a description of any of them.

Verdict: Confirmed: Rockstar names side activities including base jumping, billiards, gyms, kayaking, mini golf, scuba diving, street and off-road racing, zoos, airboats and jet skis, and the gym has a routine: three exercises a day, three days running, raises health and strength. Inference, High confidence: hunting pays and fishing is catch-and-release. Not confirmed: how most activities work, what they reward, or whether they have progression.

What side activities are in GTA VI?

Base jumping, billiards, gyms, kayaking, mini golf, scuba diving, street racing, off-road racing, zoos, airboats and jet skis. That list comes from Rockstar's interviews for Game Informer's cover story, published on 29 September 2026. It's the first time Rockstar, rather than a reading of its footage, has named things to do between missions.

It fits the state Rockstar has been describing all along, a place of coastlines, wetlands, mountain country and ports, split into named regions from Vice City and the Leonida Keys to Grassrivers, Mount Kalaga, Port Gellhorn and Ambrosia. Water sports for the coast, airboats for the swamp, racing on and off road.

How do GTA VI's side activities work?

Rockstar hasn't said for most of them. A named activity tells you it exists. It doesn't tell you whether it's a full minigame or a moment of animation, whether it pays out money or skills, or whether it repeats.

A few are now on the record:

• The gym. A workout is a minigame of three exercises; you have to finish each set before your stamina runs out, and pushing too fast costs more. Do the full routine three days in a row and Jason's or Lucia's health and strength level up, Rob Nelson told Famitsu. Muscle fades if you stop training.
• Hunting. It's a way to make money, unlocked through a friend of Jason's, by Nelson's account to YouTuber TGG.
• Fishing. Catch-and-release only, with challenges and collectibles, by the same account.
• Dates. Time spent together is how Jason and Lucia's romance grows, Nelson says, though he didn't say which activities count.

The weather and wildlife briefing has more on hunting, fishing and the animals you can track.

The rest is easy to fill in by accident. "Street racing" reads like a racing circuit, "zoos" like something to collect. Each might be true, and neither has been described. The same discipline that kept a described marina from becoming "confirmed boating" applies one level up: a named activity isn't a confirmed system.

Will GTA VI have more side activities than this?

It already has: hunting and fishing weren't on the cover story's list. The list doesn't claim to be complete; it's what the reports of one magazine feature agree on. The series has a long history of packing its worlds with things to do, and the animals you can track point the same way. Treat anything further as expectation built on history, not as a confirmed list.

So what is there to do in Leonida?

More than before the cover story: a named list of pastimes, set in regions Rockstar has described in detail, and the first rules for a few of them. How deep the rest goes is still unknown, and anyone describing how one of those plays today is describing their hopes.

What changes this: Rockstar describing how an activity works, in its own channels or another interview, or new official footage that shows one played through. The released game on 19 November 2026 settles the rest.