Summary
Red Dead Redemption 2has received a 60% discount onSteam. This hefty price cut will be available to Steam users until mid-September 2024.
The PC version of the critically acclaimed game debuted in late 2019, one year following its console release. Rockstar has been treating it to consistent price cuts ever since, with itsRed Dead Redemption 2sales beingparticularly plentiful on Steam.
RDR2 Gets 60% Steam Discount Until September 12
Yet another such promotion went live on August 29, allowing Steam users to pick upRed Dead Redemption 2at 60% off. The limited-time deal brings the game’s price down to $23.99. This is just barely above its lowest-ever price on Valve’s storefront, $19.79. The newly launched promotion will be running for two weeks straight, with this deal thus being set to expire on September 12.
RDR2: Ultimate Edition Is Also 65% Off Right Now
The Ultimate Edition of the game has also been discounted as part of the same promotion and is hence currently available at 65% off, bringing its price down to $34.99. This is just $5 over the bundle’s lowest-ever price, which was last available on Steam back in December 2023. The Ultimate Edition includes oneuniqueRed Dead Redemption 2outfit, an extra horse, and a special gun, among other bonus content. It also comes with an additional side mission in which Arthur teams up with Uncle and Charles on a mission to rob a bank.
This early September sale is hence a good opportunity to grab the PC version of one of thehighest-rated games of the past decadeand beyond. Specifically,Red Dead Redemption 2boasts a “Mighty” OpenCritic rating, derived from an aggregate score of 96 and an immense 94% reviewer recommendation rate. This makes it the second highest-rated PC game on the platform, only behindBaldur’s Gate 3, which has the same average score but a 98% recommendation rate. Looking at the bigger picture, theRed Dead Redemptionsequel is the fifth best-reviewed game of all time, as per OpenCritic’s rankings.
Aside from its immense critical acclaim,Red Dead Redemption 2also amassed many accolades. According to the most conservative counts, it won more than 175 game-of-the-year awards, in addition to winning honors at the industry’s biggest award ceremonies, including TGA, DICE Awards, and Game Developers Choice Awards. Apart from 25 major accolades,RDR2was nominated for over 50 additional awards that it hadn’t won. Anyone who fancies themselves a fan of cinematic and open-world games would hence likely find it to be well-worth their time, especially when this newly introduced 60% discount is taken into account.
Red Dead Redemption 2
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America, 1899. The end of the wild west era has begun as lawmen hunt down the last remaining outlaw gangs. Those who will not surrender or succumb are killed. After a robbery goes badly wrong in the western town of Blackwater, Arthur Morgan and the Van der Linde gang are forced to flee. With federal agents and the best bounty hunters in the nation massing on their heels, the gang must rob, steal and fight their way across the rugged heartland of America to survive. As deepening internal divisions threaten to tear the gang apart, Arthur must make a choice between his own ideals and loyalty to the gang who raised him. From the creators of Grand Theft Auto V and Red Dead Redemption, Red Dead Redemption 2 is an epic tale of life in America at the dawn of the modern age.
