You can’t get GTA 6 just yet, but after a 15-year wait, Red Dead Redemption is finally coming to mobile

It’s June 2010, the heat is dripping off the walls, and Two Door Cinema Club is the sound of the summer. The biggest event in gaming arrives two years after GTA IV: the release of Red Dead Redemption. Rockstar Games’ take on the Old West still rings true in 2025, and while GTA 6 feels like it doesn’t exist at this point, it isn’t all bad news. Following last year’s remaster from Double Eleven, RDR is finally coming to your mobile.

No, you’re not misreading that. The massive, sprawling map of Red Dead Redemption is finding a home on your Android devices and a few of the best iPhones around. It feels like a fever dream, almost like it shouldn’t exist. Can Rockstar Games truly replicate one of the best open-world game experiences on a platform smaller than my TV remote? Well, if anyone can, it’s definitely Rockstar.

After all, it isn’t the studio’s first time porting over its beloved back catalog to these devices. The mobile version of GTA: Chinatown Wars is a godsend, considering that the game is otherwise unplayable if you don’t have a Nintendo DS or PSP gathering dust somewhere. While I wouldn’t recommend Max Payne’s mobile version, other games such as Bully are surprisingly strong. However, unlike those games, there’s a small catch to consider.

You need a Netflix account. In the age of streaming, you likely already have this subscription. Where else are you going to constantly rewatch The Office or Peep Show? Anyone with a Netflix subscription can download Red Dead Redemption to their device for free. There are no adverts, in-game purchases, or any other blockades. Once you install it on Tuesday, December 2, 2025, you’re all good to go.

The greatest feature, though, has nowhere near enough word of mouth surrounding it. Yeah, you get the amazing narrative to play through, which serves as a retroactive sequel to Red Dead Redemption 2. Yet, what Rockstar Games isn’t shining a light on is that Undead Nightmare is also included with your download. For the unfamiliar, Undead Nightmare is an expansion set in an alternate universe where zombies are overrunning the land. It’s one of the greatest things the developer has ever made.

While Rockstar says it’s an expansion, Undead Nightmare is basically an entirely separate game. It even had a fully-fledged disc release. The premise is simple: John Marton’s wife and son are bitten by the undead, and you need to find a cure in the wilderness. From there, it’s a bloody tirade of guts, limbs, and rifle shell casings.

It leans into aspects the studio typically veers away from, mingling with sci-fi horror and fantasy in one fell swoop. I’ve been holding out hope for years that an Undead Nightmare sequel would come to Red Dead Redemption, but there’s more of a chance for GTA 6 to face another delay than that.

Sadly, the Netflix Games version doesn’t restore the original Red Dead Online with it. But with a superb story and all that side content to check out, I can live without it. You can pre-register on the Google Play Store and App Store right now. Will you be giving it a try?

In the meantime, see PCGamesN for the latest on the GTA 6 release date, or be sneaky with their RDR2 cheats list.