A script written from scratch
No leaked gamemode, no recycled edit. Southland runs a custom script developed in the open by staff the SA-MP community already knows — and development moves quickly.
An open.mp text roleplay server — coming soon
A new story begins in San Andreas.
Southland Roleplay is a text-only server with a game script written from scratch by staff known across the SA-MP community — built for the long run, shaped by the people who play it.
Written, not spoken
The whole city happens in lines like these.
No voice chat. No shortcuts. Every scene on Southland is typed out — the way roleplay on San Andreas has worked for twenty years. A traffic stop, a shift behind a bar, a deal going wrong in an Idlewood parking lot: it all lives and dies on the strength of the writing.
If you have ever lost an evening to a chatbox, you already know the feeling. Southland is being built to bring it back.
* Danny Vargas pulls the shutter halfway down over the pawnshop window, keys hooked on one finger.
* The streetlight on the corner flickers twice, then holds. ((Danny Vargas))
Rosa Delgado says: You locking up already? It's barely dark.
* Danny Vargas glances down the empty street before answering.
Danny Vargas says: Barely dark is when I stop trusting this block.
/me
More than a chatbox
A whole city of systems behind every scene.
Southland is being built with the depth to support a character's whole life — not just their next command.
Build a life.
Create distinct characters, choose their appearance, buy or rent a home, furnish it and fill the garage.
Make a living.
Drive a taxi, haul freight, work as a mechanic, collect wages and take part in a fully tracked economy.
Run a business.
Own and operate shops, bars, restaurants and pawnshops, with employees, stock, resupply and shared accounts.
Stay connected.
Make calls, send messages, use public payphones, place adverts and tune into faction or vehicle radio.
Join something bigger.
Build factions, companies and public services with ranks, permissions, payroll, duty states and department channels.
Uphold the law.
Investigate through the MDC, answer dispatches, gather evidence, issue fines, make arrests and manage prisoners.
Live outside it.
Trade weapons and drugs, use black markets, conceal your identity, commit robberies, fence goods or run a chop shop.
Face real consequences.
Injuries persist, emergency services matter, vehicles carry histories and every important item or payment leaves a trail.
Make every scene your own.
Use hundreds of animations, physical descriptions, documents, signatures, photographs, graffiti and social interactions.
- 2,500+
- Properties
- 253
- Businesses
- 106
- Vehicle models
- 531
- Animations
The foundations
Built to last, not just to launch.
Never pay-to-win
Southland will never sell an in-game advantage. No perks, no priority, no shortcuts for sale. What your character has, your character earned.
Community-led from day one
The roadmap is shaped in public. Suggestions become features, testers become staff, and the people playing the server decide what it grows into.
Here for the long run
Servers die when they chase launch-week numbers. Southland is planned, funded and paced for years — a place worth writing a character's whole life into.
- Status
- In development
- Platform
- open.mp / SA-MP
- Mode
- Text-based roleplay
- Pay-to-win
- Never
Coming soon
Be there when the lights come on.
Follow development, weigh in on the roadmap, and reserve your place for day one.