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Key facts
- Cheapest right now
- € Standard · Steam Account · Global · Difmark
- Live offers
- 68 offers · 17 stores
- Our pick
- Standard · Rockstar Key · Europe · Driffle — €
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Open the Red Dead Redemption 2 comparison for PC and the first number you see is € (with coupon Gocdkeys). It is real and it is live, but what it buys is not a copy of the game: it is somebody else's Steam account with the game already sitting inside it. The cheapest licence that genuinely becomes yours is a little above that, at € (with coupon GOCDKEYS10), and it does not redeem where most people assume it does. If the number is all you came for, the Red Dead Redemption 2 price page tracks it across every platform. What follows is the other half of the purchase: where the thing you paid for actually lands.
Where does each Red Dead Redemption 2 format redeem?
Rockstar sells this game through several storefronts at once, and the shops compared here resell all of them on the same page. Side by side in a price list they look like the same product with four price tags. They behave very differently.
| Format | Where you redeem it | Where the game ends up | Live from |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rockstar Key | Rockstar Games Launcher, or the Rockstar activation page | Your Rockstar account | € (with coupon GOCDKEYS10) |
| Epic Store Key | Epic Games Store | Your Epic account | € (with coupon Gocdkeys) |
| Steam Gift | A transfer from another Steam account | Your Steam library, if the sender delivers | € (with coupon GCDKGamivo) |
| Steam Account | Nothing to redeem: you are handed login details | Somebody else's account, permanently | € (with coupon Gocdkeys) |
The top row is the one that catches people out. A Rockstar code will not activate on Steam, and a Steam code will not activate in the Rockstar Games Launcher. They are two separate entitlements to the same game, and no shop will swap one for the other once the code has been sent. So: format label first, price second.
What you need no matter which one you buy
A Rockstar Games account, the thing that used to be Social Club, plus the Rockstar Games Launcher. That applies to the Steam copy too: installation, activation and online play all route through Rockstar, and the first time you launch it you will be asked to link your Steam account to a Rockstar one. Do the linking before you install and the launcher will sign you in by itself afterwards. Leave it for later and you meet the sign-in wall that gets reported as a broken purchase about once a week.
One account pairing per storefront, and it sticks. If your Steam account is still tied to a Rockstar account you abandoned years ago, untangle that first. It is far less painful than doing it with a fresh code sitting unredeemed in your inbox.
Step by step, whichever code you ended up with
Rockstar Games Launcher. Install the launcher, sign in, open the menu in the top-right corner and pick the redeem-code option. The other way round is the activation page on the Rockstar site: sign in with the same account and paste the code there. Either way the game shows up in the launcher library and downloads from it.
Steam. Games → Activate a Product on Steam, accept the notice, paste the code. It drops into your library, and the first launch installs the Rockstar launcher underneath it. Our walkthrough for activating a game on Steam covers the generic part in more detail.
Epic. The redeem option hides under your account name in the Epic Games Store client. Same principle, different library.
The four things that actually go wrong
Wrong storefront. Far and away the most common, and the reason this article exists. Check whether the row says Rockstar, Epic or Steam before you pay.
Steam already linked elsewhere. The error message names the conflict and says nothing about the fix. You unlink from the Rockstar account settings, not from Steam.
A gift that never arrives. A Steam Gift depends on a human being at the other end, and it carries their region with it. Somebody has to press send.
An account that stops being yours. The cheapest row on the page is a set of shared credentials. The seller keeps a copy of them, your hours accumulate on a profile you do not own, and nothing you do later turns that into a licence.
Here is the spread as it stands, one live offer per format:
Editions sit on top of all this as a second decision: Standard, Special and Ultimate all exist for PC, and what they add is online-side rather than extra story. If you want the licence to stay on your own account, take a code over a shared login, and you can buy Red Dead Redemption 2 key offers compared across every verified shop we track, with the format printed on every row.
Buying guides and price comparisons written alongside live prices from the stores verified by GOCDKEYS.