Summary
An eagle-eyedRed Dead Redemption 2fan online has noticed a disturbing detail about the town of Pleasance in Lemoyne. Initially, it appears just to be a little bit ofRed Dead Redemption 2set dressing, although a closer look reveals something more disturbing.
The more players look atRed Dead Redemption 2, the more mysteries it has to unravel. It always seems as though there’s something new to find in the game, and even gamers who have been playing since its 2018 launch can always discover a fresh detail. It’s part of why the game remains so popular after all this time. Players love discovery, andRed Dead Redemption 2has mastered it. Just recently, there was anotherRed Dead Redemption 2player who made a surprising find in the wild after 700 hours, showing how the true veterans still haven’t found everything it has to offer.
Upon finding the abandoned town ofPleasance inRed Dead Redemption 2, Redditor Soft-Hippo1147 decided to take a look around. Upon investigating the gravestones in the town, they noticed they all had two big things in common. First, they had all died on June 16, 2025. Second, they all met a violent end, from knife wounds to gunshots. Without actually showing what happened to the player, it tells a story of one bad day in the town of Pleasance. In a way, it raises more questions than answers, which is arguably more interesting.
In their post, Soft-Hippo1147 theorized that it could be the work of a plague, and the townspeople “were killed to stop it from spreading.” However, given the knife wounds and the overall brutality ofRed Dead Redemption 2’s world, a violent raid is much more likely here. Another user in the thread pointed out that the town is close to a spawn point to the Night Folk, so canonically, it could have been them that did this in Pleasance.
As of right now, a sequel toRed Dead Redemption 2still feels extremely far away. Rockstar still hasn’t finished development ofGrand Theft Auto 6, and it’s difficult to imagine any further news on theRed Dead Redemption 3front until after this. However, Rockstar did recently throw gamers a bone, finally porting theoriginalRed Dead Redemptionto PCafter 14 years. In lieu of aRed Deadsequel, revisiting this classic on a new platform is a good alternative for now.
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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 in order 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.
