This isn’t the first time animals and NPCs have gone missing in Red Dead Online, and the game has suffered large technical bugs before.
A whole frontier with no one to say howdy to Red Dead Online is meant to be a way for players to explore the dense, carefully created world of Rockstar’s Red Dead Redemption 2.
Players responded to the announcement by hosting in-game funerals for Red Dead Online and mourning on social media.
PC Gamer reported on the bug, noting players have been reporting missing NPCs for the last week.