Red Dead Redemption 2: Ranking Every Town From Worst To Best

Rockstar didn't need to include an active, inhabited Tumbleweed, but it's a nice treat for players of the first game, and it makes sense chronologically.

If you played Red Dead Redemption before playing Red Dead Redemption 2, you'll know immediately upon entering Tumbleweed that it's not long for this world. By the time the first game begins, the town has been well and truly abandoned. There's only a four year gap between the two games, so Tumbleweed is very much on its last leg.

You get the sense that Tumbleweed is in its death throes, but not in the same way that Van Horn is. Tumbleweed isn't some decrepit boondock where the people are at each other's throats. No, it's a once-proud community, where its citizens still cling to their way of life in the face of certain doom.

The Bass Reeves-esque town sheriff, Sam Freeman, rules the Tumbleweed with an iron fist. His overzealous, draconian enforcement of law and order is representative of a man who knows his community is on its way out. It's clear that there's no hope, yet he refuses to let his town crumble into lawlessness and obscurity for which it's destined.

A true frontier town: defiant to the bitter end.