How Long to Beat Red Dead Redemption (& Main Mission List)

After years of waiting, Red Dead Redemption is finally available for PC, bringing with it a host of visual improvements to the original 360-era game. Aside from these visual and other minor improvements, like Ultrawide monitor support, the rest of the Red Dead Redemption PC remaster remains almost the exact same as it was fourteen years ago.

That includes the length of the game, as nothing has fundamentally changed about the gameplay or world structure – and the RDR PC release comes with the Undead Nightmare DLC for free, too. Though it’s not quite as long as its sequel, players will have plenty of missions to complete and world to explore to fill out the Red Dead Redemption game story length.

How Long To Beat Red Dead Redemption

Red Dead Redemption is far from the longest game in Rockstar’s extensive catalogue, but it’s impressively engaging and lengthy for a 14-year-old title – especially if you are trying to 100% complete Red Dead Redemption.

The time it takes to beat Red Dead Redemption’s main story without taking on any side quests is about 18 hours. This includes all nearly-60 of the main story quests in the main game.

Including the main story missions added with the Undead Nightmare DLC, which takes about eight hours to beat, you can expect to finish Red Dead Redemption in around 25 to 30 hours if you almost exclusively focus on the main missions.

If you take on some side content and explore the world a bit, add on about ten hours to that total for the length of your Red Dead Redemption and Undead Nightmare playthrough.

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As with most games, going for the completionist Red Dead Redemption playthrough will take significantly longer. There are dozens of side quests, extra objectives, locations to explore, weapons to collect, Bounties to complete, Challenges to complete, and Outfits to collect in addition to the main story. Expect to take around 50 or more hours to complete everything and 100%Red Dead Redemption.

Full Red Dead Redemption Main Mission List

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In total, there are 57 main quests in Red Dead Redemption‘s main story and eight quests in the Undead Nightmare DLC (included with the PC release).

The main story quests in RDR listed below do not include the dozens of side missions that are required to 100% complete Red Dead Redemption, including the epilogue-like quest ‘Remember My Family’, which wraps up the story and can only be completed once you finish all main Red Dead Redemption missions.

Red Dead Redemption Main Campaign Quest List

1. Exodus In America
2. New Friends, Old Problems
3. Obstacles In Our Path
4. This Is Armadillo USA
5. Political Realities In Armadillo
6. Justice In Pikes Basin
7. Women And Cattle
8. Wild Horses, Tamed Passions
9. A Tempest Looms
10. Old Swindlerer Blues
11. Spare The Rod, Spoil The Bandit
12. The Burning
13. Hanging Bonnie MacFarlane
14. You Shall Not Give False Testimony
15. Exhuming And Other Fine Hobbies
16. Liars Cheats And Other Proud Americans
17. Can A Swindler Change His Spots
18. The Sport Of Kings And Liars
19. A Frenchman, A Welshman, And An Irishman
20. Man Is Born Unto Trouble
21. A Gentle Drive with Friends
22. Let the Dead Bury Their Dead
23. On Shaky’s Ground
24. The Assault on Fort Mercer
25. We Shall Be Together In Paradise
26. The Gunslingers Tragedy
27. Landon Ricketts Rides Again
28. Lucky In Love
29. The Mexican Wagon Train
30. Civilization at Any Price
31. The Demon Drink
32. Empty Promises
33. Mexican Caesar
34. My Sisters Keeper
35. Must a Savior Die
36. Cowards Die Many Times
37. Father Abraham
38. Captain De Santas Downfall
39. The Great Mexican Train Robbery
40. Gates of El Presidio
41. An Appointed Time
42. Bear One Another’s Burden
43. At Home With Dutch
44. Great Men Are Not Always Wise
45. For Purely Scientific Reasons
46. The Prodigal Son Returns to Yale
47. And You Will Know the Truth
48. And the Truth Will Set You Free
49. The Outlaws Return
50. Pestilence
51. Old Friends, New Problems
52. By Sweat And Toil
53. A Continual Feast
54. John Marston And Son
55. Wolves Dogs And Sons
56. Spare The Love Spoil the Child
57. The Last Enemy That Shall Be Destroyed

Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare Chapters List

1. Love In The Time of Plague
2. Curious Tales From Blackwater
3. Get Back In That Hole, Partner
4. A Cure For Most Of What Ails You
5. American Imperialism
6. Mother Superior Blues
7. A Civilized Man
8. On A Pale Horse

Red Dead Redemption

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Released

May 18, 2010

Developer(s)

Rockstar San Diego

ESRB

M For Mature 17+ Due To Blood, Intense Violence, Nudity, Strong Language, Strong Sexual Content, Use of Drugs

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