How To Get Coin Quickly In Ghost Of Yotei

There’s quite a lot of currency to get used to in Ghost of Yotei. There’s the obvious one – Coin – but there’s also flowers for cosmetic upgrades, a variety of upgrade materials, ammo, and food. However, that obvious one is also the most important.

Almost all upgrades rely on having some Coin alongside materials, and from midway through the game onwards that cost can really start to bite if you’re looking to upgrade everything as you go. To keep yourself topped up, these are the best ways to line your pockets across Ezo.

Gambling

Trying to make money gambling is usually a fool’s game, but here, you can outsmart the house. If you save before each match (this must be before accepting the bet), you can quit and reload any time you lose, keeping your cash. Just keep in mind that you must reload from the title screen, and that reloading from the last checkpoint via the quick load in pause will kick you out of the match but keep your coin, making it more of a forefit than a cheat.

Every gambling den in the game follows the same pattern – one game for money, one game for a charm, then games for money again. The money on offer in these post charm matches rises all the way to 1,500 Coin per game, but if you win too many it will reset to 50 Coin, reducing the effectiveness of this method. Hit the tables until you reach this point though and you can make off like a bandit. One arm optional.

Trading

Unlike some other games, nothing that you find in Ghost of Yotei is junk. Everything has some value to it, whether it be an alternative currency for specific vendors, upgrade materials, or collectible items that unlock new perks. Therefore, you might think going to stores is a one way street – no dumping the inventory here, just grab what you need and get gone.

However, this isn’t quite true. Every store will trade with you, though they won’t all take everything. From mid to late game, you’ll find yourself with a lot of Young Bamboo and Metal, and while this will still be needed for upgrades, you’ll reach a point where you can afford to sell 200 or so and still have enough for whatever you’re saving up for. Likewise, you’ve probably gathered more mushrooms than you’ll ever eat, while fish can be speared regularly and sell for a high price.

Just make sure you’re trading for Coin – some vendors trade item for item, which can help when you’re close to an upgrade, but most of the time isn’t what you’re looking for.

Completing Quests

This is an obvious one, but don’t overlook it. While most of the main quests don’t reward cash themselves, they do often unlock other quests, regions, or locations where plenty of cash can be made. Ghost of Yotei is the sort of game where it’s tempting to clear out an entire region’s side stuff before starting the main story, but a lot of these extra activities are locked behind hidden progression points, so keep a healthy balance.

Quests also involve lots of enemies, which means plenty of opportunity to loot. This brings us to…

Liberate Hideouts

Liberating Hideouts can either be done by heading to them on the map, or in some cases, finding wolves and letting them lead you there. Either way, these can be highly lucrative activities that give you a sudden cash injection. They’re also important for clearing out each region and reward you will a skill point, so they’re a vital activity.

While most Hideouts don’t come with an automatic cash prize (instead that’s the altar and its related skill point), what you will get to do is loot a lot of bodies and storage chests. This will grant you resources (which can then be sold if not needed), as well as a lot of coin. The only downside is these hideouts can’t be repeated, so make sure you loot everyone before you leave.

Make Sensible Purchases

This sounds as lame as eatng vegetables and doing homework, but it is something you’ll have to understand. Believe us, we know the temptation of wanting to upgrade everything as soon as you can, especially when they have that ‘upgrade ready’ symbol flashing. However, while it is possible to upgrade everything eventually, you are going to need to make some choices somewhere along the way.

If you never really use your bow, don’t blow your coins on upgrading both bows, and all the ammo, and all the ammo pouches. By the end of the game? Sure, get Atsu all kitted out. But don’t rush ahead if you won’t get the benefit. The best way to earn money is simply to save it, after all.

Upgrade your main armor, and whichever other ones have boons that benefit your playstyle, and prioritise the weapons that you use the most. Cosmetic gear costs Flowers rather than Coin, so you can go nuts on that every time you see it (although don’t buy all the colour variants for gear you don’t use if you’re low on petals), but when it comes to major upgrades, make sure you always have enough in your pocket for the next level of your main gear.

Buying individual ammo is almost always a waste of money when they can be looted freely.

Complete Bounties

Most obviously, you make money by completing bounties. Almost all of the bounties come with major rewards, ranging into four figures, though no one quite commands the price you yourself do by the game’s end. Return to the bounty board in each region often, as new ones are added regularly. However, once the story has moved out of a region, that’s a safe bet that there won’t be any more bounties there (unless you still have some to complete, of course).

If you’re short on cash or just like to keep yourself fully upgraded, bounties should be your top priority. They come with major rewards, happen fairly regularly, often have enemies to loot, and sometimes throw up interesting narrative beats too. Compared to hideouts, gambling, and fishing, they’re also significantly less repetitive, so it’s easy to knock a few out back to back to get your coin reserves boosted quickly.