Rockstar reveals more hints about Red Dead Redemption PC remaster

It’s long been suspected (though not officially confirmed) that the original Red Dead Redemption would be getting a PC remaster in the near future. A description of the PC version has already briefly appeared on the PlayStation Store (of all places). And earlier this year, a curious fan of the studio who monitors the backend of the Rockstar launcher found similar descriptions of the game buried in the metadata. Yesterday, the same practice yielded another clue: the game’s Steam application number.

The tidbit comes from Xitter user “TezFunz2,” who has volunteered to cyber-spy Rockstar’s online properties. The Steam app number alone isn’t much information. You can watch and track the game via Steamdb right now if you’re so inclined. But it won’t show any real information until the store page is actually live (at least in theory). Still, it’s another step toward the 2010 open-world Western finally coming to PC. We already know from a PlayStation Store leak that the port will feature “PC-specific improvements, including support for increased resolutions and frame rates.”

There was a brief moment when it looked like the rootin’ tootin’ remaster would be shelved, following the lackluster release of the remastered GTA trilogy, which was horribly buggy and visually distorted (it even had to be briefly pulled from sale to remove unlicensed music), but it looks like work has been resumed on it after all.

It’s worth noting that the developer can add apps to Steam as unnamed items well before release. That doesn’t mean a remaster is coming anytime soon. But it’s been a year since similar ports were released on PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch. And 14 years since the game first appeared on PS3. Maybe that’s enough time to get a PC version ready?

Either way, yeah. Leaks are fun. The PC version of Red Dead Redemption 2 itself leaked on LinkedIn in 2018 (more like LEAKEDIn, right?).