What are the Red Dead Redemption 2 cheats? As is customary with all Rockstar Games titles, cheats are an integral and important part of RDR2. While you won't quite be spawning supercars and tanks here, there are plenty of old-timey whips to enjoy, alongside the usual suite of resource hacks we all know and love.
In the case of Western game, one that is unrelentingly realistic, and it can be a bit of a downer. Do you know what helps spice things up a bit? RDR2 cheats, that's what.
RDR2 Cheats
There are a few things worth noting about RDR2 cheats. For starters, they're all hidden away inside the game itself, which is a far cry from having to buy magazines to find them out or having to trawl through a forum like it's the days of dial-up. Also, entering a cheat will not only disable achievements, but will also stop the game from saving as well. Which means you only ever want to do this at the end of a play session, or at least never at the beginning of one where you're planning on making any story progress.
RDR2 cheats can be found in-game on things like newspapers, and even written on the side of furniture. For the most part, you can just enter the codes as below, but some of the codes need to be found in-game after a certain point first. We've split the list into those you can enter from the get-go and those you need to find.
Grammar matters when it comes to these cheats, so make sure you get the punctuation right, although capitalisation doesn't seem to be quite as important.
Here are the RDR2 cheats:
- A simple life, a beautiful death – Gives a set of basic weapons
- Death is silence – Gives a set of stealth weapons
- History is written by fools – Gives the Gunslinger side mission weapons
- Greed is now a virtue – Gives $500
- Vanity. All is vanity – Unlocks all in–game outfits
- Eat of knowledge – Teaches every crafting recipe
- Share – Unlocks every camp upgrade
- You revel in your disgrace, I see – Sets your honor to the minimum
- Balance. All is balance – Sets your honor to neutral
- Be greedy only for foresight – Gives infinite Dead Eye
- Guide me better – Dead Eye level 1
- Make me better – Dead Eye level 2
- I shall be better – Dead Eye level 3
- I still seek more – Dead Eye level 4
- I seek and I find – Dead Eye level 5
- Seek all the bounty of this place – Permanently increases your Health, Stamina and Dead Eye meters
- You flourish before you die – Fills your Health, Stamina and Dead Eye meters
- My kingdom is a horse – Increases your horse bonding level
- Better than my dog – Let's you call your horse from any range
- A fool on command – Makes you drunk
- Run! Run! Run! – Spawns a racehorse
- You want more than you have – Spawns a superior Arabian horse
- You want something new – Spawns a random horse
- The best of the old ways – Spawns a stagecoach
- Keep your dreams simple – Spawns a wagon
- Keep your dreams light – Spawns a horse-drawn buggy
- You want punishment – Gives you a Wanted Level
- You want freedom – Drops your Wanted Level
- You want everyone to go away – Removes your notoriety and bounties
RDR2 Newspaper Cheats
You'll need to find the rest of these in specific newspapers after a certain point in the game. We've listed when for each of them.
- Abundance is the dullest desire – Gives you infinite ammunition – Buy the Hanover Gazette no. 27 during or after Chapter 1.
- Greed is American virtue – Gives you a set of heavy weapons — Buy the Saint Denis Times no. 46 after the mission Advertising, the New American Art in Chapter 3.
- You long for sight and see nothing – Removes the fog from the map — Buy the Saint Denis Times no. 47 after the mission Blood Feuds, Ancient and Modern in Chapter 3.
- Virtue unearned is not virtue – Gives your maximum honor — Buy the Saint Denis Times no. 48 after the mission Urban Pleasures in Chapter 4.
- The lucky be strong evermore – Gives you infinite Stamina — Buy the Saint Denis Times no. 49 after completing Chapter 5.
- You seek more than the world offers – Fills meters and fortifies your cores — Buy the Saint Denis Times no. 52 after the mission The King's Son in Chapter 6
- You are a beast built for war – Spawns a war horse — Buy the Saint Denis Times no. 53 after completing the Epilogue
- Would you be happier as a clown? – Spawns a circus wagon — Buy the Saint Denis Times no. 54 after completing the Epilogue
How to use cheats in RDR2
To use RDR2 cheats, first head into the Settings tab of the menu. In the bottom right corner, you'll find a prompt to go to the Cheats section. From here, you'll be able to enter a wealth of different codes to activate effects or summon vehicles, weapons, and so on. The best part is that once you've entered a cheat once, you can just toggle them on or off, so there's no need to these codes.
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