Red Dead Redemption 2 cheats: every cheat code for a wilder west

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Red Dead Redemption 2 cheats offer all kinds of augmentations for your Old West experience. After all, the life of an outlaw is hard enough, isn't it? Why spend someone else's hard-earned money on weapons and upgrades when you can keep it for yourself? Save it for the saloon—or hell, don't spend it there either. There's a cheat code for drunkenness, too.

Cheat codes are tradition in Rockstar titles, but RDR2 cheats work a little differently. With this guide you can learn more about how to find and activate cheat codes in Red Dead Redemption to give Arthur Morgan an easier, or boozier, ride through across the West.

How to use Red Dead Redemption 2 cheats

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All of the cheat codes you can use in Red Dead Redemption 2 are readily available in the world, provided you know where to look. In RDR2, cheat codes are actually cheat phrases found in the world itself. To use those phrases and toggle their associated cheats on and off, open the menu, go to settings, and you'll see a button prompt to go to the cheat menu. Once their, you can activate the phrases you've entered and found.

Some cheats you can use without having located them yourself. Others have to be located first by purchasing in-game newspapers: the New Hanover Gazette, Saint Denis Times, and Blackwater Ledger. The Gazette can be picked up in Annesburg and Valentine, the Saint Denis Times in Rhodes and Saint Denis, and the Ledger in Strawberry and Blackwater. 

After you've unlocked a cheat code in RDR2, you can head back to your settings menu to toggle them off and on. Beware, having cheats turned on will remove your ability to earn achievements or save your game progress.

Red Dead Redemption 2 cheats list

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If you don’t want to try and find the codes naturally, below are the cheat phrases and what they unlock. Please note, certain cheat codes will not unlock unless you have bought the corresponding newspaper, even if you know the phrase. 

Remember, the punctuation in each cheat phrase is important but capitalization is not.

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RDR2 Cheat

Cheat Code Phrase

Newspaper Requirement

Basic weapons

A simple life, a beautiful death

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Stealth weapons

Death is silence

--

Gunslinger weapons

History is written by fools

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Get $500

Greed is now a virtue

--

Get drunk

A fool on command

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Unlock all outfits

Vanity. All is vanity

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Learn all recipes

Eat of knowledge

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Unlock camp upgrades

Share

--

Lowest Honor

You revel in your disgrace, I see

--

Neutral Honor

Balance. All is balance

--

Increase Wanted level

You want punishment

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Lower Wanted level

You want freedom

--

Remove notoriety and bounties

You want everyone to go away

--

Dead-Eye level 1

Guide me better

--

Dead-Eye level 2

Make me better

--

Dead-Eye level 3

I shall be better

--

Dead-Eye level 4

I still seek more

--

Dead-Eye level 5

I seek and I find

--

Infinite Dead-Eye

Be greedy only for foresight

--

Increase Health, Stamina, and Dead-Eye meters

Seek all the bounty of this place

--

Refill Health, Stamina, and Dead-Eye

You flourish before you die

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Increase horse bonding level

My kingdom is a horse

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Call your horse from any distance

Better than my dog

--

Spawn a racehorse

Run! Run! Run!

--

Spawn a Superior horse

You want more than you have

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Spawn a random horse

You want something new

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Spawn a stagecoach

The best of the old ways

--

Spawn a wagon

Keep your dreams simple

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Spawn a buggy

Keep your dreams light

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Infinite ammo

Abundance is the dullest desire

Purchase newspaper after completing Chapter 1

Heavy weapons

Greed is American virtue

Purchase newspaper in Chapter 3 after completing the mission 'Advertising, the New American Art'

Remove map fog

You long for sight and see nothing

Purchase newspaper in Chapter 3 after completing the mission 'Blood Feuds, Ancient and Modern'

Highest Honor

Virtue unearned is not virtue

Purchase newspaper in Chapter 4 after completing the mission 'Urban Pleasures'

Infinite Stamina

The lucky be strong evermore

Purchase newspaper after completing Chapter 5

Fill meters and fortify cores

You seek more than the world offers

Purchase newspaper in Chapter 6 after completing the mission 'The King's Son'

Spawn a warhorse

You are a beast built for war

Purchase newspaper after completing the Epilogue

Spawn circus wagon

Would you be happier as a clown?

Purchase newspaper after completing the Epilogue

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