Fitness Gamer Walks Arthur Across RDR2 on Treadmill!

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Summary

  • Player uses treadmill to walk Arthur across Red Dead Redemption 2 map, taking 16,000 steps.
  • ShakeMistake streams journey live on Twitch, uses StepL app to convert steps into in-game movement.
  • The feat receives praise from players.

An intrepid fitness enthusiast and Red Dead Redemption 2 player has completed a major journey across the game’s map using a treadmill to control Arthur as he walks across the whole in-game world. Red Dead Redemption 2 won praise upon its release in 2018 for having a massive open-world map filled with naturalistic detail.

Though it has been nearly seven years since it first released, Red Dead Redemption 2 continues to impress players, with fans continuing to find creative ways to have fun in one of the biggest open world games around. The adventures of Arthur Morgan and the Van der Linde gang at the end of America’s Wild West era take on a legendary quality when considered against the backdrop of the game world’s massive, photorealistic vistas. Even outside the game’s story and designated activities, players find moments of quiet and humor just by visiting places on the map. In short, Rockstar’s rendition of the fictional U.S. states like New Hanover and West Elizabeth are engaging places just to live in and walk through.

One player, who goes by ShakeMistake on YouTube, shared his literal “walk through” of Red Dead Redemption 2 with the game’s Reddit community. Using the unusual hardware combination of a step tracker, a low-profile “walking pad” treadmill, and an app that remapped the in-game controls to his movement, ShakeMistake was able to walk Arthur Morgan almost all the way across the Red Dead Redemption 2 game map. He trekked from the town of Annesburg in the northeast corner of New Hanover to Tumbleweed in the southwest reaches of New Austin, spending the entire time on foot and without stopping.

Red Dead Redemption 2 Player Takes More than 3 Hours to Walk Arthur Across the Map With a Treadmill

To accomplish his feat, ShakeMistake used an android smartphone app called StepL, which connects to a PC and can turn gyroscopic input from the phone into in-game movement, similar to the way fitness games like Zombies Run track steps. ShakeMistake streamed the whole journey live on Twitch, sharing the condensed version with Reddit and uploading a more detailed breakdown on his YouTube channel. According to him, it took approximately three hours of walking constantly to move from Annesburg to Tumbleweed, with the app counting roughly 16,000 steps in total.

Players praised ShakeMistake for the feat of conquering the whole Red Dead Redemption 2 map “physically,” and likening the accomplishment to other stunts involving games and fitness equipment, like when one player turned a treadmill into a Death Stranding controller.

ShakeMistake’s journey of 16,000 steps put the map’s size at somewhere under 8 miles (12.9 kilometers) in distance between two of its furthest points. Despite this, the game gives the impression that Arthur and his compatriots are traveling for days or even months through entire U.S. states and beyond.

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2025-03-17 06:55