Red Dead Redemption 2 Walkthrough and Strategy Guide
A complete guide for RDR2’s campaign, collectibles, and much more.
Updated: Dec 3, 2019 8:57 pm
Posted: Nov 28, 2019 12:05 am
IGN’s Red Dead Redemption 2 wiki guide features a complete written and video walkthrough of all story missions and stranger side missions, cheats for PC and console, treasure maps, hunting guides, and plenty more. If you’re just diving into Red Dead Redemption 2 for the first time, this guide also has plenty of tips for getting started and suggestions on what to do first.
You’ll find introductory guides at the top of this page with the walkthrough, late-game, and online guides toward the bottom to prevent spoilers.
Getting Started in RDR2
- Tips and Tricks
- How to Save Your Game
- Hunting Tips and Strategy
- Things to Do First
- How to Get a Horse Brush
How-Tos, Best Horses, Best Weapons and More
- How to Fast Travel
- How to Get the Best Horse
- How to Make Money: Tips, Tricks, Exploits, and Gold Bar Locations
- How to Clear Your Bounty
- How to Clean Yourself
- How to Get a War Horse
- How to Fish and How to Unlock Fishing
- The Best Weapons Guide: The Best Pistol, Rifle and Shotgun
Red Dead Redemption 2 Cheats
- How to Enter Cheat Codes on PS4, Xbox One, and PC
- Use this Gold Bar Exploit to get a ton of cash quickly and early on
- While not a cheat, you’ll want to know the Gold Bar Locations and where to sell them
Other Handy Collectible Guides and Maps
- 100% Completion Checklist
- Cigarette Card Locations and Card Sets
- Points of Interest
- Dinosaur Bone Locations
- Dreamcatcher Locations
- Hunting Requests
- Rock Carvings
RDR2 Walkthrough
This is a complete walkthrough of Arthur’s adventure, complete with screenshots and video guides.
Chapter 1
- Outlaws from the West
- Enter, Pursued by a Memory
- Old Friends
- The Aftermath of Genesis
- Who the Hell is Leviticus Cornwall
- Eastward Bound
Chapter 2
- Polite Society, Valentine Style
- Americans at Rest
- Paying a Social Call
- A Quiet Time
- Good, Honest, Snake Oil
- Exit Pursued by a Bruised Ego
- Blessed are the Meek?
- Who is Not without Sin
- Money Lending and Other Sins
- The Spines of America
- The First Shall be Last
- Pouring Forth Oil
- A Fisher of Men
- We Loved Once and True
- The Sheep and the Goats
- An American Pastoral Scene
- A Strange Kindness
Chapter 3
- The New South
- Further Questions of Female Suffrage
- American Distillation
- An Honest Mistake
- The Course of True Love
- Preaching Forgiveness as He went
- Sodom? Back to Gomorrah
- Advertising, the New American Art
- Horse Flesh for Dinner
- Magicians for Sport
- The Fine Joys of Tobacco
- Friends in Very Low Places
- Blessed are the Peacemakers
- A Short Walk in a Pretty Town
- Blood Feuds, Ancient and Modern
- The Battle of Shady Belle
Chapter 4
- The Joys of Civilization
- Angelo Bronte, a Man of Honor
- No, No and Thrice, No
- The Gilded Cage
- A Fine Night of Debauchery
- Horsemen, Apocalypses
- American Fathers
- Urban Pleasures
- Country Pursuits
- Revenge is a Dish Best Eaten
- Banking, the Old American Art
Chapter 5
- Welcome to the New World
- Savagery Unleashed
- A Kind and Benevolent Despot
- Hell Hath No Fury
- Paradise Mercifully Departed
- Dear Uncle Tacitus
- Fleeting Joy
- A Fork in the Road
- That’s Murfree Country
Chapter 6
- Icarus and Friends
- Visiting Hours
- Just a Social Call
- A Rage Unleashed
- The Delights of Van Horn
- Archeology for Beginners
- The Bridge to Nowhere
- Honor, Amongst Thieves
- The Fine Art of Conversation
- Goodbye, Dear Friend
- Mrs. Sadie Adler, Widow
- Favored Sons
- The King’s Son
- My Last Boy
- Our Best Selves
- Red Dead Redemption
Epilogue Part 1
- The Wheel
- Simple Pleasures
- Farming, for Beginners
- Fatherhood, for Beginners
- Old Habits
- Jim Milton Riders, Again?
- Fatherhood, for Idiots
- Motherhood
- Gainful Employment
- Home of the Gentry?
Epilogue Part 2
- Home Improvement for Beginners
- An Honest Day’s Labors
- The Tool Box
- A New Jerusalem
- A Quick Favor for an Old Friend
- Uncles Bad Day
- A Really Big Bastard
- Trying Again
- A New Future Imagined
- American Venom
Brand New 4K Screenshots of Red Dead 2 on PC
Post Game Guide - In RDR2’s post-game, you’ll get access to new legendary animals and fish, collectibles, stranger missions, and more. You can read more about them here.
The Red Dead Redemption 2 guide doesn't stop with the campaign. See how Red Dead Online has changed since it first launched with its beta on the Red Dead Online Updates page.
The Red Dead Redemption 2 guide was made through a collaborative effort between the entire IGN guides team with great freelancers and community support. This article was put together by wikis executive editor Miranda Sanchez. She wrote many hunting guides and collectible guides for RDR2.
