Red Dead Redemption 2 Cheat Codes List & How To Use Them

Looking for a full list of Red Dead Redemption 2 cheat codes? By using the RDR 2 cheats code you can activate many things like infinite ammo, refill your health & stamina, and spawn horses.

You need to buy in Valentine, Strawberry, and Rhoads because this allows you to read the cheat code phrases, which you can then input into a cheat section in the pause menu.

In this article, we’ll provide you with a complete list of Red Dead Redemption cheats for PS4, Xbox One, and PC versions.

How to Enter Red Dead Redemption 2 Cheats?

Activating cheat codes in Red Dead Redemption 2 is a fairly simple process. Just follow the below steps to input cheats in Red Dead Redemption 2.

Pause the game.
Press Triangle if you’re on PS4, or Y if you’re on Xbox One.
You will then enter a page filled with cheat codes. All of them will be unknown if you have never visited this page before.
Press Triangle or Y, and you’ll bring up the keyboard. Input one of the cheat codes in the table above, and you’ll unlock the corresponding cheat.
You can then choose to toggle this cheat on or off. Thankfully, you don’t have to re-enter them every time if you want to activate them anymore!
Remember – activating a cheat code will bar you from saving the game or progressing through the story.

Some cheat codes might not work when you enter them because these cheats have “prerequisites” or requirements that you need to meet before you can activate them. The most common prerequisite is purchasing Newspaper.

How to get Newspapers in Red Dead Redemption 2?

Newspapers are unlocked after you complete certain chapters or missions in RDR 2. You can get newspapers from newspaper sellers in various towns. They are represented by the paper symbol on the map. Newspapers contain hidden cheat codes and in order to activate or unlock them, the newspaper containing the cheat must be in your inventory.

There are three publications that sell papers – Blackwater Ledger, New Hanover gazette, and Saint-Denis Times– and they serve different areas. Each publication will put out a new issue whenever an additional newspaper is unlocked, but the content of those papers is the same.

Where can you find Red Dead Redemption 2 cheat codes?

Most people will have probably come across a cheat code in Red Dead Redemption 2 without actually knowing it.

However, there is actually one guaranteed way of finding cheat codes: buying newspapers. Head to Valentine, Saint-Denis, and Blackwater and pick up the New Hanover Gazette, Saint-Denis Times, and Blackwater Ledger respectively from the newspaper seller in town. Certain newspapers will only be available after clearing particular flash points in the story, and a number of cheats are actually locked off depending on your progress, so to get the best experience, you probably want to finish the campaign first.

If you’ve already beaten the game, then you should be loaded with cash, so quickly pick up every copy available. Once you’ve done that, simply open up your satchel, pick a newspaper, flip it over and zoom in to the bottom of the paper. If the paper has a cheat code, there will be a little tagline underneath one of the articles which contains a phrase. This phrase is what you have to type in to unlock the corresponding cheat code.

Red Dead Redemption 2 Cheat Codes List

When entering these cheat codes, capitalization isn’t important – but punctuation is required as written for the codes to work. Most of them can be entered anytime but, some require you to actually find a newspaper before you can use them, so we have marked those in the list too.

Cheat effect	Cheat code	Requirement
Add $500	Greed is now a virtue	None
Basic weapons	A simple life, a beautiful death	None
Create Buggy	Keep your dreams light	None
Create race horse	Run! Run! Run!	None
Create Random Horse	You want something new	None
Create Stagecoach	The best of the old ways	None
Create Superior Horse	You want more than you have	None
Create Wagon	Keep your dreams simple	None
Decrease Honor	You revel in your disgrace, I see	None
Decrease Wanted Level	You want freedom	None
Forces you to become drunk	A fool on command	None
Gunslinger Weapons	History is written by Fools	None
Increase Health, Stamina, and Dead Eye levels	Seek all the bounty of this place	None
Increase Horse Bonding	My kingdom is a horse	None
Increase Wanted Level	You want punishment	None
Increase Whistle Range for Horse	Better than my dog	None
Infinite Dead Eye	Be Greedy only for Foresight	None
Learn All Recipes	Eat of Knowledge	None
Own all Outfits	Vanity. All is vanity.	None
Reset Honor	Balance. All is balance.	None
Set Health, Stamina, and Dead Eye Bars to Full	You flourish before you die	None
Set Dead Eye to level 1	Guide me Better	None
Set Dead Eye to level 2	Make me Better	None
Set Dead Eye to level 3	I shall be better	None
Set Dead Eye to level 4	I still seek more	None
Set Dead Eye to level 5	I seek and I find	None
Stealth weapons	Death is silence	None
Purchase all Camp upgrades	Share	None
Clear all Bounties and Lockdown Areas	You want everyone to go away	None
Infinite Ammo	Abundance is the dullest desire	Own Newspaper Hanover 27 or Saint Denis 43 (acquired anytime in Chapter 2)
Heavy Ammo	Greed is American Virtue	Own Newspaper Saint Denis 46 (acquired in Chapter 3 after Magicians for Spot)
Remove Fog of War from map	You long for sight and see nothing	Own Newspaper Saint Denis 47 (acquired in Chapter 3 after Magicians for Sport)
Increase Honor	Virtue unearned is not virtue	Own Newspaper Saint Denis Times 48 (after Chapter 4 mission Urban Pleasures)
Infinite Stamina	The lucky be strong evermore	Own Newspaper Saint Denis Times 49 (after completing Chapter 5)
Fortify Health, Stamina, and Dead Eye	You seek more than the world offers	Own Newspaper Saint Denis Times 52 (after Chapter 6 mission The King’s Son)
Create War Horse	You are a beast built for war	Own Newspaper Saint Denis Times 53 (after completing the Epilogue)
Create Circus Wagon	Would you be happier as a clown?	Own Newspaper Saint Denis Times 54 (after completing the Epilogue)

Infinite Money Exploit in Red Dead Redemption 2 on PS4 and Xbox One

Using an item duplication glitch, it’s possible to earn infinite money by duplicating gold bars.

Travel to the Sheriff’s Office in Limpany and open the lock box under the desk.
Use the interaction button to pick up the gold bar, but pause during the animation (make sure not to touch the pamphlet first).
Save your game and then immediately load that save.
Return to the box and hold the interaction button to continue collecting gold bars (max is 30).

You can sell these 30 gold bars to a Fence for $15,000 and then return to Company and repeat steps 2-4.