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 Red Dead Redemption 2, it's especially tempting to give yourself a leg up, given how long some parts of the game can feel. Red Dead Redemption 2 is a tough 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.
All Red Dead Redemption 2 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. We've got all the RDR2 cheat locations below.
Plus, keep in mind that entering a cheat not only disables achievements but also stops the game from saving. This 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.
Here are all 37 RDR2 cheats, including the eight newspaper cheats:
| Cheat text | Effect |
| 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 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 honor to the minimum |
| Balance. All is balance | Sets 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 Health, Stamina, and Dead Eye meters |
| You flourish before you die | Fills Health, Stamina, and Dead Eye meters |
| My kingdom is a horse | Increases your horse bonding level |
| Better than my dog | Calls 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 | Increases Wanted Level |
| You want freedom | Drops Wanted Level |
| You want everyone to go away | Removes notoriety and bounties |
All RDR2 newspaper cheats and how to get them:
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.
| Cheat text | Effect | Location |
| Abundance is the dullest desire | Gives infinite ammo | Buy Hanover Gazette #27 during or after Chapter 1. |
| Greed is American virtue | Gives a set of heavy weapons | Buy Saint Denis Times #46 after the Advertising, the New American Art mission |
| You long for sight and see nothing | Removes the fog from the map | Buy Saint Denis Times #47 after the Blood Feuds, Ancient and Modern mission. |
| Virtue unearned is not virtue | Grants maximum honor | Buy Saint Denis Times #48 after the Urban Pleasures mission in Chapter 4. |
| The lucky be strong evermore | Grants infinite Stamina | Buy Saint Denis Times #49 after completing Chapter 5. |
| You seek more than the world offers | Fills meters and fortifies your cores | Buy Saint Denis Times #52 after the The King's Son mission in Chapter 6. |
| You are a beast built for war | Spawns a war horse | Buy Saint Denis Times #53 after completing the Epilogue. |
| Would you be happier as a clown? | Spawns a circus wagon | Buy Saint Denis Times #54 after completing the Epilogue. |
How to use RDR2 cheats
To use RDR2 cheats:
- Head to the Settings tab in the main menu.
- In the bottom right corner, select the prompt for the Cheats section.
- From here, enter any of the codes above.
- Once you've entered a cheat once, you can just toggle it on or off.
- Grammar matters with these cheats, so make sure you get the punctuation right, although capitalisation doesn't seem to matter.
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