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Red Dead Redemption May Finally Be Coming to PC

Published Aug 13, 2024

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Red Dead Redemption may finally be coming to PC, hints an updated PlayStation Store description.
The PC port may include enhancements like increased resolutions and framerate, as well as the Undead Nightmare DLC.

The original Red Dead Redemption may finally be making its way to PC, according to a mysterious change in the game's PlayStation Store description. Ever since its release in 2010, Rockstar fans have been begging the developer to bring Red Dead Redemption to PC, and it looks like the wait may soon be over.

While Red Dead Redemption was previously confined to the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, Rockstar Games finally brought the popular action-adventure game to PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch in August 2023. Despite shooting to the top of the PlayStation Network chart, Red Dead Redemption was review-bombed after fans took issue with the game simply being a port and not a remaster. Alongside the lack of new content in Red Dead Redemption's PS4 and Switch versions, fans were also outraged at the $50 price tag that came with it.

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One year on from Red Dead Redemption's PS4 and Switch release and it looks as though the hugely popular title may finally be coming to PC. Over on the game's PlayStation Store page, an updated description refers to a PC version of Red Dead Redemption. While there is currently no PC listing available, the PlayStation description states that the title is "now on PC for the first time ever." It's unclear why details of a PC port have appeared on a PSN listing, but it was noted by VGC that the description is fairly new because an internet archive site does not show mention of a PC version as of April 2024.

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Further down the updated description, it states that the port features all of the 2023 console version upgrades plus PC-specific enhancements, such as support for increased resolutions and framerates, multiple displays, spatial surround sound, and more. It is also insinuated by the PSN description that Red Dead Redemption's PC port will include Undead Nightmare, a popular zombie-themed DLC that was also released back in 2010 shortly after Red Dead Redemption's launch.

While there's no current-gen version of the game available to purchase, Red Dead Redemption does support 60 FPS on the PlayStation 5 following the release of a new update in October 2023. The patch came as a surprise to many, but further fuelled the controversy after Rockstar decided to skip a native PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S version when it re-released the title for PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch.

Although it looks increasingly likely that Red Dead Redemption is coming to PC, fans hoping for an official current-gen release will likely be left disappointed. As the release date for Grand Theft Auto 6 inches closer and closer, Rockstar Games allocating resources to a 14-year-old title to make a current-gen remaster seems highly unlikely. But thanks to the power of the modding community, Red Dead Redemption's PC port could end up looking like more than a simple port.

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OpenCritic Reviews: Top Critic Avg: 79 /100 Critics Rec: 73%

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Released: May 18, 2010
ESRB: M For Mature 17+ Due To Blood, Intense Violence, Nudity, Strong Language, Strong Sexual Content, Use of Drugs
Developer(s): Rockstar San Diego
Publisher(s): Rockstar Games

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America, 1911. The Wild West is dying. When federal agents threaten his family, former outlaw John Marston is forced to pick up his guns again and hunt down the gang of criminals he once called friends. Experience an epic fight for survival across the sprawling expanses of the American West and Mexico, as John Marston struggles to bury his blood-stained past, one man at a time.

Red Dead Redemption is a Western epic, set at the turn of the 20th century when the lawless and chaotic badlands began to give way to the expanding reach of government and the spread of the Industrial Age.

Franchise: Red Dead Redemption
Platform(s): Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch 2, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, Android, iOS
Genre(s): Open-World, Adventure

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