Map7 min readUpdated 2026-07-19

GTA 6 Easter Eggs — 20 Hidden References and Callbacks

Rockstar seeded Leonida with hundreds of references. These twenty are the ones worth going out of your way for — the rest you will trip over naturally.

Vice City throwbacks

The Malibu Club is back and functional, the Ocean View hotel has a locked room 3C referencing Tommy Vercetti, and the old Vercetti Estate mansion is a purchasable safehouse.

Real Florida callbacks

The 'Publix'-style Publux supermarkets, the Spring Break scenes in Panama Springs, and the roadside 'Skunk Ape Research Center' are all lifted directly from real Florida landmarks.

Rockstar in-jokes

A billboard in downtown Vice shows a Bull Shark testosterone ad. The abandoned Sprunk factory sits next to a new Ecola bottling plant. Both series-long jokes are still going.

The single best egg

At exactly 3:47 AM in-game, the lighthouse north of Isla Ocaso flashes a Morse code sequence that decodes to a Rockstar developer's phone extension from a 1997 in-game credit. Worth the wait.