GTA IV Episodes from Liberty City walkthrough: all missions

November 2, 2026 · 15 min read

Every story mission of The Lost and Damned (22) and The Ballad of Gay Tony (26) in order, plus how to launch the episodes in Steam, length and tips.

Episodes from Liberty City are two standalone story expansions for GTA IV: The Lost and Damned, starring biker Johnny Klebitz, and The Ballad of Gay Tony, starring Luis Lopez, a nightclub bodyguard. Steam doesn't sell them separately. Both are already inside GTA IV: The Complete Edition, which replaced the base game and the old Episodes bundle, so one purchase gives you three campaigns. The stories run alongside Niko's in the same Liberty City and cross paths with it here and there.

Below you'll find every story mission of both expansions in a sensible playing order. Expect spoilers; if you want the story fresh, read the titles only. For the main campaign, see our GTA IV mission-by-mission guide.

How to launch the episodes in Steam

The Steam library has a single entry for the whole package. According to players in the Steam community thread, pressing Play should bring up a screen where you choose the base game or one of the episodes. If the game drops you straight into Niko's story, try this:

Pause the game, open the Game tab and start a new game or change the episode. You'll be offered IV, TLAD and TBoGT.
Check the settings for a skip-menu option. Players report that it was hiding the episode choice.

The Complete Edition arrived on Steam on 24 March 2020. Multiplayer, Games for Windows Live and leaderboards were dropped, which doesn't matter for the campaigns.

How long are they?

Estimates vary. GTAIntel's FAQ puts The Lost and Damned at roughly 12 hours and The Ballad of Gay Tony at roughly 10, and about 50 hours for the base game plus both expansions (the base game alone is 28-32). HowLongToBeat figures, quoted by Dekudeals for the whole Episodes bundle, say 18.5 hours for the stories, 25.5 with side content and 43.5 for 100%.

Playing in Ukrainian

Steam lists English, French, Italian, German and Spanish for the game, with no Ukrainian and no Russian. There is, however, a free Ukrainian localization with text and voice-over covering the base game and both episodes. The voices are AI-generated; subtitles and menus are plain text. All Ballad of Gay Tony screenshots in this guide come from it. Installation and troubleshooting are in the GTA IV Ukrainian-language guide.

The Lost and Damned: Johnny Klebitz and The Lost MC

Johnny is vice president of the Lost motorcycle club. Billy Grey, the club's Alderney president, comes back and promptly wrecks the truce with the rival Angels of Death. War, heroin, politics and diamonds follow. There are 22 story missions.

Missions unlock along several parallel branches (Billy, Jim, Elizabeta, Stubbs), so wikis disagree on the order, especially early on. The list below follows the two most common ones. The game may shuffle a few missions around, but you'll play all 22.

The start: Billy and Jim

#	Mission	Giver	What you do
1	Clean and Serene	Billy	Pick Billy up and take his bike back from the Angels of Death. You fail if your bike or his is destroyed.
2	Angels in America	Billy	Chase down fleeing Angels of Death bikers across Alderney.
3	It's War	Billy	Fight off an Angels of Death attack on your brothers.
4	Action/Reaction	Billy	Raid the Angels' clubhouse: a grenade through an upstairs window, then fight inside for the heroin.
5	Liberty City Choppers	Jim	Steal Angels of Death bikes and load them onto a Yankee truck for a buyer.
6	Bad Cop Drop	Jim	Ambush the cops who have been leaning on the club.

Drugs and politics

#	Mission	Giver	What you do
7	Buyer's Market	Elizabeta	Collect a heroin shipment and sell it in Broker. The deal is a trap: undercover cops first, then NOOSE.
8	Politics	Stubbs	Kill Arthur Stubbs as he lands at Francis International Airport.
9	Off Route	Stubbs	Hijack a prison transport to free the men inside. One of two chances to get the Prison Bus.
10	Coming Down	Ashley	Pull Ashley out of a crack house near Vespucci Circus and take her home. Unlocks Gang Wars.
11	This Shit's Cursed	Billy	The job ends with an escape from the cops at Dragon Heart Plaza in Algonquin. After it, Johnny runs the club.

The war with Brian

#	Mission	Giver	What you do
12	Hit the Pipe	Jim	Blow up three Angels of Death vans with pipe bombs supplied by the Uptown Riders.
13	End of Chapter	Jim	Talks with Brian's faction collapse into a gunfight. The laundromat vans can be stolen.
14	Bad Standing	Jim	Find Brian Jeremy at a safehouse in southern Alderney. You can phone Terry or Clay (both turn up) or go in alone. If you're quick, you can catch Brian at the front before he gets away on his bike.

Elizabeta's jobs

#	Mission	Giver	What you do
15	Heavy Toll	Elizabeta	Hold a toll booth with your allies, beat off a rival gang's cars and bikes, take their cocaine-loaded Slamvan, shake the cops and deliver it to a garage.
16	Marta Full of Grace	Elizabeta	Collect Marta, a courier smuggling drugs inside her body, at Francis International Airport and deliver her.
17	Shifting Weight	Elizabeta	A cocaine deal by the basketball courts turns into a firefight with police. Johnny's bike is wrecked, so he shoots from behind Malc.

Diamonds and the finale

#	Mission	Giver	What you do
18	Roman's Holiday	Ashley	Kidnap Roman Bellic with Malc to clear Ashley's debt to Dimitri Rascalov. A crossover with the base game.
19	Diamonds in the Rough	Boccino	Crash a diamond deal and chase the limo and the fleeing Evan Moss.
20	Collector's Item	Boccino	Sell the diamonds at the Libertonian. The deal goes bad and you flee in a car chase.
21	Was It Worth It?	Boccino	Survive an ambush by hitmen in Algonquin, alone or with Clay and Terry.
22	Get Lost	Stubbs	Finale: the club storms Alderney's prison. The credits roll afterwards.

What's special about The Lost and Damned

The bike is your main ride. Johnny handles a motorcycle better than a car, and small collisions are forgiven. Ride in formation with your brothers: the GameRevolution FAQ says this slowly restores health and repairs the bike.
Checkpoints inside missions. Die and you restart from a point partway through, not from the beginning.
Backup. In some missions you can phone Terry and Clay. Malc and DeSean of the Uptown Riders also fight alongside you.
Gang Wars. They open after Coming Down. Clearing them gives you free weapons at your safehouse, and Terry's gun van sells the rest.
New weapons: sawn-off shotgun, automatic 9mm pistol, assault shotgun, pool cue, grenade launcher and pipe bomb.
Side content: bike races (with baseball bats), bike thefts for Angus, Stubbs' Dirty Laundry, arm wrestling, Hi-Lo and air hockey.

There are no endings to choose from: the story is linear and your choices in the base game don't affect it.

The Ballad of Gay Tony: Luis Lopez

Luis Lopez is the bodyguard and business partner of Tony Prince, owner of the clubs Maisonette 9 and Hercules. Tony is in debt; Mori Kibbutz and the Ancelotti family are among his creditors. Meanwhile real-estate developer Yusuf Amir wants to buy the clubs, and Russian crime boss Ray Bulgarin has his own plans for a stash of diamonds. There are 26 story missions.

Tony, Luis and two men in leather jackets in an apartment: a scene about creditors from the first cutscene — The expansion's first cutscene, with Ukrainian subtitles from our localization

As in The Lost and Damned, the branches (Tony, Yusuf, Mori) open in parallel and wikis differ in small details. The order below is the one two lists agree on.

The opening: Tony and Luis's friends

#	Mission	Giver	What you do
1	I Luv LC	Tony	Help friends Armando and Henrique at Maisonette 9 and drive them home. Unlocks the next three missions.
2	Practice Swing	Tony	Help Rocco Pelosi lean on a union official at a golf club, then get him and Tony out.
3	Chinese Takeout	Tony	Drive Tony to Chinatown and fight off the Triads.
4	Momma's Boy	Luis's mother	An underground cage fight to work off his mother's debt to a loan shark. You can win it or take a dive.
5	Corner Kids	Armando and Henrique	Your friends' deal goes wrong: NOOSE and a helicopter attack. Unlocks Drug Wars.
6	Clocking Off	Armando and Henrique	Guard a shipment at a Bohan pier, beat off a rival gang and move the rest to a garage in Northwood.

Yusuf and Mori

#	Mission	Giver	What you do
7	Sexy Time	Yusuf	Shoot up boats and a yacht from a Buzzard helicopter.
8	High Dive	Yusuf	Fight your way up a skyscraper and come down by parachute. The first parachute jump in the expansion.
9	Caught with Your Pants Down	Yusuf	Steal a NOOSE armored personnel carrier.
10	Kibbutz Number One	Mori	Deal with dockside dealers, then blow up three of their boats with sticky bombs.
11	This Ain't Checkers	Mori	Parachute onto a boat, steer it through checkpoints, then race Mori across town to Middle Park.
12	No. 3	Mori	Keep up with Mori's car in a police chase, jumping between barges. Afterwards Henrique starts selling the F620 and Bullet GT.

Tony, act two

#	Mission	Giver	What you do
13	Bang Bang	Tony	Take out a crane, a subway train and a private jet with sticky bombs and rockets.
14	Blog This!...	Tony	Drive Tony and Gracie to her house in Alderney, then leave a comment on a blog that mocks Tony.
15	Frosting on the Cake	Tony	A roughly $2 million diamond buy in Broker turns into a fight with cops and a helicopter.
16	Boulevard Baby	Tony	Dance with Monique at Bahama Mamas to get information for Rocco, then shoot your way out.
17	...Blog This!	Tony	Throw The Celebinator out of a helicopter over Happiness Island and make sure he survives the fall.
18	Not So Fast	Tony	Ambush a diamond exchange, chase Isaac Roth and escape in Yusuf's gold-plated Buzzard past three police choppers.
19	Ladies' Night	Tony	Tail Patrick McReary, who kidnapped Gracie, in the Ancelotti helicopter until he leads you to her.

Bulgarin and the finale

#	Mission	Giver	What you do
20	Going Deep	Bulgarin	Eliminate corrupt investigators holding evidence against Bulgarin and Timur.
21	Dropping In	Bulgarin	Parachute onto the MeTV building in Algonquin to get inside unseen.
22	In the Crosshairs	Bulgarin	A Little Italy rooftop and an ambush with snipers and grenade launchers. Grab a sniper rifle.
23	For the Man Who Has Everything	Yusuf	Fend off police helicopters from a subway car.
24	Ladies Half Price	Tony	Trade diamonds for Gracie, then a boat ride to a refinery and a drive back.
25	Party's Over	Rocco	Fight off Bulgarin's men at Maisonette 9 and protect Tony.
26	Departure Time	Tony	Destroy the Russians' heroin, chase Bulgarin to the airport and finish it aboard his jet.

Luis and a man in dark glasses in a living room, subtitle: "Amateurs. Let's get out of here" — A cutscene frame from our localization: the lines are voiced in Ukrainian

What's new in The Ballad of Gay Tony

The parachute. You first need it in High Dive. An altimeter appears on screen while you're airborne, and the game prompts you when to open the chute.
Mission score. Every story mission is scored as a percentage for performance and bonus goals. The score doesn't affect the story. After you finish the game you can replay missions from Luis's phone to improve a result.
Weapons and vehicles. Armando sells weapons and Henrique supplies vehicles. New gear includes the Advanced MG, sticky bombs and a sniper rifle, plus Yusuf's gold-plated Buzzard.
Drug Wars. They unlock after Corner Kids: deliver a stash to a drop-off point while rivals try to take it. There are plenty of variations.
The clubs. Luis works the door at Tony's clubs, watching the crowd and chauffeuring VIPs. You can also dance and play drinking games.
Side content: triathlon, the L.C. Cage Fighters underground fights, BASE jumping, golf (a driving range) and air hockey.

Luis in an apartment, a frame from The Ballad of Gay Tony — Luis Lopez, the expansion's hero, with Ukrainian subtitles

Tips

No need to fear starting here. The episodes stand alone, and your base-game decisions don't touch their plots. But the crossovers with Niko, Roman and Johnny land better after the main campaign, especially in The Ballad of Gay Tony.
Helicopters and parachutes: no sudden moves. Tips from the GameRevolution FAQ (written for a gamepad): in Sexy Time barely push the left stick forward to hold altitude; in High Dive hold both triggers to slow down under the canopy; in Dropping In open the chute right away.
Phone your allies. In The Lost and Damned Terry and Clay can bail you out of harder missions, such as Bad Standing.
Don't chase percentages. If a mission goes badly you can improve the score later from Luis's phone, and the story doesn't depend on it.
Re-check the Ukrainian localization after updates. Steam sometimes restores the original files. Just run the installer again.

Sources

Missions in The Lost and Damned, Grand Theft Wiki and Missions in TLAD, GTA Wiki: the list and order of 22 missions
Missions in The Ballad of Gay Tony, Grand Theft Wiki and Missions in TBOGT, GTA Wiki: the list and order of 26 missions
The Lost and Damned, Wikipedia and The Ballad of Gay Tony, Wikipedia: plots, new weapons, new activities
GameRevolution FAQ for The Lost and Damned and for The Ballad of Gay Tony: mission details, tips
GTA IV: The Complete Edition on Steam: contents, release date, languages
Steam community thread: how to launch the episodes
GTAIntel: How long is GTA IV and Dekudeals: Episodes from Liberty City (HowLongToBeat data): length