Red Dead Redemption 2 gets its own Undead Nightmare in this player-made creation

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New Austin becomes a zombified wasteland

Red Dead Redemption 2 Undead Nightmare mod
(Image credit: Dick Hertz and Eki)

A Red Dead Redemption 2 Undead Nightmare mod can give you the single-player, zombie-fighting western followup you've been waiting for since 2010.

Modders Dick Hertz and Eki uploaded the first public release of the Undead Nightmare 2 - Origins mod on November 1, as spotted by PCGamesN, and the project's quickly risen as a favorite in the Red Dead Redemption 2 modding community since then. It's an in-depth conversion that besets the entire map, and New Austin in particular, with a plague of the undead: whole towns have fallen to zombies, and the remaining survivors could use your help with protecting their holdouts.

Or you could just roam around town and help yourself to the caches left behind by scavengers. You'll also find undead roaming the broader countryside, and can even enjoy some new ambient sound as you traverse the plagued West. It doesn't seem like Rockstar's planning on doing any single-player DLC of its own for Red Dead Redemption 2, but this mod should do the trick for PC players at least.

Connor Sheridan
Connor Sheridan

I got a BA in journalism from Central Michigan University - though the best education I received there was from CM Life, its student-run newspaper. Long before that, I started pursuing my degree in video games by bugging my older brother to let me play Zelda on the Super Nintendo. I've previously been a news intern for GameSpot, a news writer for CVG, and was formerly a staff writer at GamesRadar.