A Red Dead Redemption 2 modder has turned the game into Westworld by giving NPCs their own memories.
Rockstar’s wild west classic Red Dead Redemption 2 is one of the greatest games of all time and remains a must-play for anyone waiting for GTA 6.
Like most open-world titles, Red Dead gives players a ton of freedom with how they go about completing tasks and traversing the world, adding to its already immersive gameplay.
Now, Twitch streamer ‘Blurbs’ has found a way to give the game’s numerous NPCs even more backstory through “memories” that play when they die.
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While the goal is a “maximum guilt trip,” the scripts don’t exactly have the same dynamic dialogue you’d encounter playing naturally… but that’s because they were written by Twitch chat.
Red Dead Redemption 2 NPCs get memories for “maximum guilt trip”
The concept for the memory mod came from a viewer after Blurbs let fans suggest their worst ideas.
Basically, Blurbs modified the game to enter a special “cinema” mode showing NPCs in a slow-mo close-up right before he kills them.
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From there, the streamer recorded a series of scenes meant to be “flashbacks” and programmed the game so it loads these “memories” when an NPC dies.
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While this could, in theory, have been pretty emotional (much like Red Dead itself), Blurbs decided to get Twitch chat to write the scripts.
I modded RDR2 so that NPCs have *actual* memories you are forced to watch when they die. Maximum guilt trip.
I may have made a mistake letting Twitch Chat write the scripts however… pic.twitter.com/J7dGWdYKc9
— Blurbs (@Blurbstv) October 1, 2025
The result was a series of absurd dialogue referencing meme culture, One Piece, baseball, video games, and an assortment of other oddities.
“I may have made a mistake letting Twitch Chat write the scripts,” he admitted.
This is hardly the first time Blurbs’ Red Dead mods have gone viral. Back in August, he designed a mod that lets players throw Jack Marston like a tomahawk.
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A few weeks before that, he spent three days finding a way to mod himself into the game.