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Game profile
Red Dead Redemption 2
An epic cowboy tale about loyalty and the downfall of an outlaw gang in a dying Wild West. The pacing is deliberately slow and the world feels alive down to the smallest detail.
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What kind of game this is
At its core this is Action / Adventure, set in a historical period. Visually it is going for realism, and the overall tone stays dark throughout. The world is open, so wandering off and ignoring the main path is part of the deal. It rewards long uninterrupted stretches more than quick check-ins.
Difficulty stays forgiving, so progress rarely depends on your reflexes. The narrative carries the whole thing, and the mechanics serve it. It is a single player experience from start to finish. It runs on 3 platforms. It sits in the mid price bracket.
What stands out
- Cinematic Wild West story
- Extremely living world
- Emotional character development
This fits you if
- you want to live through a story, not just play a system
- exploring for its own sake is the point for you
- you can sit down for a proper long stretch without interruptions
- you like getting lost and ignoring the main objective for hours
- the writing matters more to you than the mechanics
- you want zero frustration and no difficulty wall
Look elsewhere if
- you need real difficulty to stay interested
- you skip cutscenes and want to get to the gameplay
- you do not have 65 hours to give a single game
- you only ever get short bursts of play time
What it costs you in time
About 65 hours in total. At three evenings a week and two hours each, you will be busy for roughly 11 weeks, or 33 sessions.
How the rating ranks
Critics settled on 94 out of 100, which puts it above 97 percent of the 1206 games here and at rank 31 overall. That is a strong score, comfortably above what most releases manage.
For comparison, Action averages 83 points across the database, so this one sits 11 points above its own genre. The figure rests on 3757 collected ratings.
Released in 2018, so it has 8 years behind it. Usually cheap by now and the rough edges are long fixed.
The facts
- Release year
- 2018
- Genres
- Action, Adventure
- Playtime
- approx. 65 hrs.
- Difficulty
- Relaxed, forgiving
- Story weight
- Carries the whole game
- Play with
- Solo
- Setting
- Historical
- Visual style
- Realistic
- Price bracket
- Mid price
- Platforms
- PC, PlayStation, Xbox
- Critic rating
- 94 / 100
Direct comparison
| Genres | Release year | Playtime | Critic rating | Price bracket |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Red Dead Redemption 2 | 2018 | approx. 65 hrs. | 94 | Mid price |
| Red Dead Redemption | 2023 | approx. 40 hrs. | 87 | Mid price |
| Ghost of Yōtei | 2025 | approx. 30 hrs. | 90 | Full price |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 2018 | approx. 17 hrs. | 81 | Mid price |
If you liked this, try these
- Red Dead Redemption Shared: Action, Adventure, Historical, shorter
- Ghost of Yōtei Shared: Action, Adventure, Historical, shorter
- Shadow of the Tomb Raider Shared: Action, Adventure, Historical, shorter
- Ghost of Tsushima Shared: Action, Adventure, Historical, shorter
- Okami HD Shared: Action, Adventure, Historical, shorter
- Crimson Desert Shared: Action, Adventure, shorter