Key facts
- Cheapest right now
- € Standard · Global · Difmark
- Live offers
- 18 offers · 11 stores
- Our pick
- Standard · Steam Key · Europe · Kinguin — €
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GG.deals reported on 3 September that more than 1,500 Xbox offers had gone live at once across the shops it follows, and it named Red Dead Redemption among the ones worth a look. That is all we are taking from them. Every figure below is our own, read this morning between 06:00 and 06:05 across the five pages we keep for this game.
What came back is not a tidy answer. On four of those five pages the cheapest entry is somebody else's login rather than a copy of the game.
Rockstar's modern version came out on 29 October. Steam players have it at Very Positive, 18,425 of 20,027 reviews on the good side. OpenCritic gathered 62 reviews, 30 of them from top critics, with a median of 80, a top-critic average of 78.68 and 71.67% recommending it. The label there is Strong.
Difmark is first on four pages and never with a copy
€9.99 on PC, €4.62 on Xbox, €15.99 on Switch, €14.59 on Switch 2. Same shop, same trick, four different machines. What you pay for is entry to an account owned by someone else with the game already installed on it. You sign in as them. Nothing lands in your own library, you cannot gift the game or resell it, and the day the seller changes the password you have nothing.
The PS5 page is the one that breaks the pattern. Its lowest figure is Media Markt at €32.90, an ordinary Standard copy for Europe, with Difmark's account sitting above it at €36.99.
On PC the first code you redeem yourself costs €22.08
Eighteen offers from 13 stores. Below €22.08 there are exactly three entries and all three are Steam accounts: Difmark €9.99, Kinguin €15.20, G2A €17.38. The first copy that ends up in your library is Kinguin's Standard for Europe at €22.08, followed by the same shop's US version at €30.31 and an Epic Store code from Gaming Dragons at €33.78. Steam asks €39.63, so three offers undercut the official store and the best of them saves €17.55.
Above the Steam price the page turns almost entirely into Steam Gift: Gamivo €43.49, Driffle €43.95 for the United States, G2A €44.73, Kinguin €52.88, K4G €55.13, then G2A twice more at €55.33 and €55.93. A gift reaches you as a transfer from the seller's account instead of a code you type in, which means a friend request, a wait and regions that have to line up. None of those amounts holds up against Valve's own €39.63. The single exception up there is Green Man Gaming's Epic code at €49.99. We are also leaving the Rockstar Store offer out of today's reading: our last capture from that shop is from a 29 October two years back, so it says nothing about this morning.
Switch has eight eShop codes under €21
This is the page to open if you want something cheap that genuinely stays with you. Past Difmark's account, the Europe eShop codes run Eneba €17.92, Driffle €17.92, YUPLAY €17.93, Gameboost €18.28, Kinguin €18.47, Gamivo €18.65, Instant Gaming €19.29 and Difmark Digital Keys €20.20. Eight stores inside €2.28 of each other, which is about as competitive as this game gets anywhere. G2A's Europe code follows at €22.26 and Fnac has a Standard copy at €27.99.
Two warnings from that same page. The American eShop codes cost more than double — Eneba €43.99, Kinguin €51.21 — and they will not redeem on a European account. And the €147.02 showing at PCcomponentes is a misplaced physical listing, not something anyone should click. There is also a G2Play entry at €18.47 whose last reading is from a 30 September, which is why it stays out of the eight.
The cheapest copy that stays yours, machine by machine
| Platform | Cheapest copy that stays yours | Store and format |
|---|---|---|
| Switch | €17.92 | Eneba or Driffle, eShop code, Europe |
| PC | €22.08 | Kinguin, Standard, Europe |
| Switch 2 | €23.46 | Kinguin, Switch 2 code, Europe |
| Xbox | €24.99 | Microsoft Store, official, read on 29 August |
| PS5 | €32.90 | Media Markt, Standard, Europe |
Switch wins by €4.16 over PC and by almost fifteen euros over PS5, for the same game. The cheapest official purchase of the five is the Microsoft Store at €24.99, which is a strange thing to be able to write about a store that never discounts on our pages.
Xbox and Switch 2 barely have a page at all
On Xbox we hold three offers and two of them are accounts: Difmark €4.62 and G2A €7.51, both frozen at exactly the same figure every single day since at least 31 August. The third is that Microsoft Store code at €24.99. Across 132 daily readings since 28 April the floor of the page is €4.62, and it has always been the Difmark account.
The Switch 2 page holds four. After the €14.59 account, Kinguin sells a Europe code at €23.46, Instant Gaming asks €29.99 for the same thing and Media Markt lists a Standard copy at €33.99. Three hundred and sixty readings since 28 April, and the record low is the account once more.
PS5 has 187 readings behind it with a floor of €24.99, well under what you would pay today. Media Markt has been moving: €32.99 on 1 September, €35.99 on the 2nd and 3rd, €32.90 from the 4th through this morning. Amazon Germany showed €34.00 on the 3rd.
1,389 daily readings on the PC page since 28 April
The lowest figure in all of them is €9.99, and it belongs to Difmark's account. So the record low on our PC page has never once been a copy of Red Dead Redemption. The accounts also swing in a way the codes do not: Kinguin read €14.00 on 6 September and €15.20 today, while G2A stood at €41.75 on 5 September and €17.38 this morning. Twenty-four euros of movement on one listing in two days.
Kinguin's Europe code does none of that, which is the argument for paying the extra twelve euros. If the game is going on PC, buy Red Dead Redemption key at €22.08 and it is yours. If the machine does not matter and the total does, the eShop code on the Switch version at €17.92 is the cheapest way into the game we can see today.
I have been a gamer for as long as I can remember, and for the last 14 years I have been making life easier for other gamers. CEO and co-founder of Gocdkeys.
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