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Red Dead Redemption 2

Arthur Morgan and the Van der Linde Gang are outlaws on the run. With federal agents and bounty hunters massing on their heels, the gang must rob, steal, and fight their way across the rugged heartland in order to survive.

Developer
Rockstar Games
Publisher
Rockstar Games
Franchise
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Release date
Dec 5, 2019
Store page updated
Oct 3, 2025
Price
$59.99 · Steam store ↗

Review Analysis Score

95.7/ 100

Based on 410 reviews from the past 1 year

Steam User Rating
Recent 😄 Very Positive 93% of 11,122
All time 😄 Very Positive 92% of 919,275
“no problems with the single player game at all”

How it holds up

−50+5
Gameplay
+0.93
Freedom +3.76

🔒 5 more indicators

Story & World
+4.69
Story +4.68
“story is one of the best, gameplay amazing” (151)

🔒 2 more indicators

Content Volume
+3.67
Volume +4.57

🔒 2 more indicators

Visuals & Sound
+4.68
Visuals +4.75
“graphics and details of the game are amazing” (32)

🔒 1 more indicators

Multiplayer
-0.87

Not enough data — only 5% of reviews mention this.

Playing together -0.11

🔒 1 more indicators

Fairness
-2.42

Not enough data — only 5% of reviews mention this.

Monetization -0.27

🔒 3 more indicators

Tech & Ops
-2.07
Performance +0.48

🔒 3 more indicators

Scores are the average of reviews that mention each category (−5 to +5). Fainter bars were mentioned by fewer reviews; grey means too few to trust. Tap a category ▾ to see what drives it.

Steam review activity

% positive over time
since launch, by month · major update
60%70%80%90%100%
Dec 2019Sep 2026
Reviews
per day · 11,045 reviews, peak 575/day
05001k
Aug 19Sep 16

Steam only gives daily counts for the last 30 days; longer ranges are by month. Months with fewer than 10 reviews are left out of % positive. "Show updates" marks major updates and DLC the developer posted on Steam (since about 2020) — hover a column to see % positive the month before and after.

Review languages

Languages of the 410 reviews we analyzed from the past year — not all Steam reviews.

  • English17%
  • Spanish14%
  • Russian11%
  • Portuguese11%
  • Chinese10%
  • Turkish8%
  • Other29%

🔒 Scores broken down by language — how Russian or Chinese players rate each category — are in the paid dashboard.

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