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Warnings/Cautions[]

Cheats allow the player to access a variety of features and resources in the game immediately. However, in Red Dead Redemption, this instant gratification comes at a steep price:

  • Using cheats will block Achievements/Trophies, being awarded to players on the PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360 and Nintendo Switch.
  • Any game saves made after invoking a cheat are forever "tainted" as Cheat-Saves.
    • Be careful with game saves, however. If, down the road, the player decides to start accumulating achievements/trophies, he/she should start over with a new game, or restore/load a "clean" game save.
    • Or going down the cheat path, keep in mind that RDR game save files can be copied to an external storage device (some games don't allow this).
  • Lastly, cheat-saves are easy to identify - the save description begins with a star within parentheses.

How to Enter and Use Cheats[]

To add new cheats, go to the Options menu and select the "Cheats" option. Then press "Triangle" (PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4), "Y" (Xbox 360) or "X" (Nintendo Switch) and type in the cheat phrase (from our handy table below!) Once activated, players cannot obtain Achievements/Trophies even if the cheats are turned off afterwards and will have to load a previous save to do so once more.

Some cheats can also be found in the bottom corner of in-game Newspapers or written on the walls of certain structures. Other cheats become available after successfully linking a Xbox Live or PSN account with the Rockstar Social Club (see below).

Note: Cheats ARE NOT case sensitive and they do require the correct commas and punctuation.

Cheats[]

Cheat Name (in cheat list) Description Location
I AM ONE OF THEM

FAMOUS FELLAS

Famous Maximum Fame. Painted onto a river-side hut at The Old Bacchus Place.

YOU GOT YOURSELF A FINE PAIR OF EYES

Lewis and Clark Unlocks all areas. (Excluding West Elizabeth )(Doesn't remove blockade on borders) Newspaper #55.
HE GIVES STRENGTH TO THE WEAK Invincibility "God" mode (you can't die, except by drowning and duels ). Newspaper #61.

I DON'T UNDERSTAND IMNFINITY

Infinite Dead Eye Infinite Dead Eye. Written on a wall at Primera Quebrada ruins.
ABUNDANCE IS EVERYWHERE Infinite Ammo Infinite Ammo. Newspaper #58.

THEY SELL SOULS CHEAP HERE

Decrease Bounty

Decreases Bounty by 500.

Carved on Benedict Pass bridge.
I WISH I WORKED FOR UNCLE SAM Diplomatic Immunity

Removes the current wanted level and immune to future wanted levels.

Newspaper #57.
IT'S MY CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT Gun Set 1 Gives you Volcanic Pistol, Springfield Rifle, and Double-barreled Shotgun. Written inside a chicken coop at Nosalida .

I'M AN AMERICAN. I NEED GUNS

Gun Set 2 Gives you Fire Bottle, Buffalo Rifle, Sawed-off Shotgun, Semi-Automatic Pistol, Schofield Revolver, and Winchester Repeater. Newspaper #56.
THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL, WE THANK YOU! Money Gives the player $500. Written on some boards in the Plata Grande mine.
BEASTS AND MAN TOGETHER Horse Spawns a random horse. Carved above the door inside the shack at Lake Don Julio.
MAKE HAY WHILE THE SUN SHINES Infinite Horse Stamina Your Horse never gets tired, Nor bucks you off. Newspaper #54.

DON'T YOU LOOK FINE AND DANDY

Sharp Dressed Man Unlocks the Gentleman's AttireLegend of the West and Rancher Outfits and the Elegant Suit. Newspaper #60.
HUMILITY BEFORE THE LORD Who? Decreases fame to zero. Written on the wall of a ruined grave at Sepulcro .
OH MY SON, MY BLESSED SON Jack Attack Changes John Marston into Jack Marston, and sets the game to 1914 with 72% completion. Also completes all the missions in story mode. Written on the inside of Beecher's Hope barn loft.
THE OLD WAYS IS THE BEST WAYS Old School Enables a sepia filter. Newspaper #53.
YOU THINK YOU TOUGH, MISTER? Gang Chic Unlocks the Walton's Gang, Bollard Twins, Treasure Hunter, Bandito and Reyes' Rebels Outfits. Written on a wall at Barranca ruins.
IT AINT PRIDE. IT'S HONOR Good Guy

Sets Honor to max.

Newspaper #59.

I LOVE A MAN IN UNIFORM

Man In Uniform

Unlocks the U.S. Army and Bureau Uniforms and the U.S. Marshal Outfit.

Written on the back of a rail car at the Pacific Union Railroad Camp
NOW WHO PUT THAT THERE? Coach Spawns a stagecoach, Wagon or cart. The Scratching Post .
I'M DRUNK AS A SKUNK AND TWICE AS SMELLY Hic Makes you drunk infinitely. Rathskeller Fork, in the room beside the players' above the door.

Rockstar Games Social Club[]

Rdr unlocks

Several additional cheats are unlocked and added to the list by creating an account on the Rockstar Games Social Club and linking it with a Xbox Live Gamer Tag/PSN account. The following cheats are not added via a code; instead the player has to "Claim" those cheats from the website which will be automatically activated on the console. (An internet connection will be needed.)

It may also require to restart the game to let the cheats sync with the game. 

Cheat Name Effect
Rdr donkey rider
Donkey Rider
Spawns a donkey to ride.
Rdr increase bounty
Increase Bounty
Raise your bounty immediately.
Rdr bad guy
Bad Guy
Grant yourself the lowest honor.
Rdr so-so guy
So-so Guy
Give yourself a neutral honor.
Rdr change weather
Change Weather
Cycle through the weather.
Rdr dead eye level 1
Dead-Eye Level 1
Reset your Dead Eye to level 1.
Rdr dead eye level 2
Dead-Eye Level 2
Reset your Dead Eye to level 2.

Hitchcock
Increase Bird spawns in game.

Cheats Earned from Challenges[]

Ten Social Club Challenges are available for members of the Rockstar Games Social Club. Each challenge unlocks a cheat, as listed below. As with the ones above, these cheats are not added via a code.

Cheat Name Effect Challenge
Rdr guns blazing
Guns Blazing
Bullets of fire. (Player's shots have a chance to light enemies on fire.) Pike's Basin
Cheat13
Every Shot Counts
One shot kills.

Solomon's Folly (PS3 only)


Gun Set 3
Unlocks Dynamite, Double-action Revolver, Rolling Block Rifle, Henry Repeater, Pump-action Shotgun, and High Power Pistol.

Gaptooth Breach

Rdr clear bounty
Clear Bounty
Clears any bounty accumulated. Twin Rocks
Rdr beast master
Beastmaster
Makes wild animals friendly. (Animals tend to flock to the player and predatory animals become non-aggressive.) Legendary Marksman
Rdr rise up
Rise Up
All civilians you come across in the game have weapons and will often attack you. Nosalida
Rdr dead eye 3
Dead-Eye Level 3
Reset your Dead Eye to level 3. Fort Mercer
Rdr punch out
Punch Out
Knock enemies out with a single punch. Blackwater

Gun Set 4
Unlocks Mauser Pistol, LeMat Revolver, Throwing Knifes, Bolt Action Rifle, Evans Repeater, Carcano Rifle and the Semi-auto Shotgun.

Tumbleweed

Rdr right to bear arms
Right to Bear Arms
All civilians are armed with a weapon. Tesoro Azul

Notes[]

  • After the shutdown of GameSpy on June 2014, the Social Club cheats are no longer obtainable through the Social Club website. However, a free game update released on the same month permanently unlocked the cheats (and other Social Club rewards) for everyone.
  • Invincibility will only work in water until the water rises to your chin. Normally, Marston will die once the water reaches his chest. There is a glitch with the Drunk cheat wherein if the player falls completely into water, he will survive, even if the player is completely submerged. For this to work the player can't be deep, but be in shallow water where he would survive if the Drunk cheat was off.
  • The infinite ammo cheat is glitched and may turn off if the player is changing outfits.
  • The Invincibility cheat is severely glitched, and will turn off after any event takes place. (Leave the town, after a Draw, the start of a mission or hogtying someone. Some players will have the cheat turned off just by getting shot.)
  • The "Gun Set 1" cheat may not work on some consoles.
  • The infinite horse stamina cheat does not affect horses tied to carriages/stagecoaches.
  • The "MAN IN UNIFORM" cheat does not work if playing as John Marston. The player will simply be given a message stating: "You cannot activate this cheat during any activity." This is because the outfits are meant for Jack only.
  • Players can't spawn a stagecoach while inside a building, but can glitch one inside a building by standing near one and spawning the coach; the stage coach might spawn directly in the building. This glitch can also allow the player to get to places where they cannot normally go. It is recommended that you activate god mode before trying this, as the stagecoach will often bounce in and out of walls and can send you rocketing into water or into the air.
  • The cheat to make the player drunk may cause the price to disappear when drinking, still charging the player but not notifying them of this. The "-$5" will disappear. (requires further confirmation).
  • There is no punctuation at the end of any of the cheats despite them being displayed in game (such as the Gun Set 1 & 2 and Money cheats).
  • If the player assaults a normally aggressive animal when having the Beastmaster cheat turned on, the animal will attack the player as if the cheat was turned off.
  • The Famous cheat is written incorrectly at The Old Bacchus Place. The code on the wall is written as "I AM ONE OF THOSE FAMOUS FELLAS" instead of "I AM ONE OF THEM FAMOUS FELLAS".
  • The cheat named "Hitchcock" was added with the social club cheats in 1.08 update and named after the film director Alfred Hitchcock, and based off his film "The Birds".
  • Unless connected to the internet from the Xbox 360/PS3, players won't be able to save using cheats.
  • In Undead Nightmare, players can use any cheats they have already unlocked in the main Single-Player game. However, some cheats might not take effect, such as the money, fame, and honor cheats, as Undead Nightmare does not make use of these systems. Using cheats also affects Undead Nightmare save files in the same way cheats affect the main game.
  • Jack Attack - this cheat also sets the main story missions as complete and cannot be reversed unless a previous save is loaded. To play as Jack for the rest of the game, change Jack's outfit, save the game/sleep, and die. When you respawn, you will play as Jack.
  • The phrase "The devil has gotten into that beast" is written on the pulpit in Tumbleweed's Church. Despite its similarity to other cheats, it cannot be entered as a cheat code.
  • In Undead Nightmare, the invincibility glitch is partially fixed but will still turn off when hogtying NPCs or when a mission cutscene has ended.
  • In Undead Nightmare, if the invincibility cheat is enabled and the player is grappled by an undead, failing to escape will not result in death, however, NPCs will act as though the player is dead and will ignore their actions.
  • Once Undead Nightmare has been completed, the coach cheat will not activate and the player will be given a message stating: "You cannot activate this cheat during any activity." This is a programming error.
  • The cheat "IT'S MY CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT" is possibly a reference to fellow Rockstar title Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, where the protagonist Carl Johnson will sometimes shout the phrase when carjacking or shooting someone. Toni Cipriani from Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories is also known to occasionally use the phrase.
  • Cheats prevents you playing Social Club Challenges. In order to play them, load a save file with no cheats activated or start a new game.
  • In Undead Nightmare, turning on the Hic cheat is cautious. John Marston may not be able to get back up, because Euphoria's ragdoll physics system will try to play the 'get up' animation WITHOUT disabling ragdoll mode, resulting in Marston repeatedly falling over while trying to get up.
  • The Invincibility cheat will deactivate itself if the player saves the game (or simply sleeps without saving) or fast travels to a different location. The player must ensure they reactivate the cheat every time they do so if they expect to encounter or cause havoc.

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