How To Use Cheat Engine - Tutorial With Examples

In this video, I show you how to use Cheat Engine to cheat in all your favorite games, explained in a way that anybody can do it. After watching this tutorial, you'll be able to change in-game values such as money, gold, item count, ammo, and experience.
You'll also know how to cheat to change unknown values where the game doesn't show you the values you're trying to change.
You'll also learn how to find code that accesses those values and to replace that code with nothing, which is a great way for activating cheats such as god mode (infinite health), infinite stamina, infinite durability, unlimited ammunition, and much more!
Once you learn these basics, you'll be able to pretty much anything in your games.
Also, I explain how cheat engine works for online games.
Download Cheat Engine:
www.cheatengine.org/
Games used in this tutorial:
-Dead Island
-Diablo 3
-Left 4 Dead 2
Game cheats/cheat engine discord:
/ discord
If you want to save your cheats, watch:
Beginner's Guide To Advanced Cheat Engine - Pointer Scanning & Scripting
• Pointer Scanning & Scr...
00:00 Introduction
00:14 Attach Cheat Engine To Your Game
00:52 Money Cheat
02:27 Item Cheat
03:44 Exp Cheat
03:57 Cheating Unknown Values
06:47 Sample #1 - Infinite Health (Freeze vs Replace With No Code)
09:17 Sample #2 - Infinite Stamina
11:05 Sample #3 - Unlimited Ammo (L4D2)
11:31 Sample #4 - Cheating In Online Games

[@amnatahir9224]

i was trying to use cheat engine on a pretty underground game- there were practically no tutorials for it and the ones i did find were completely baffling... but this was so clean and concise. Hats off!!

[@99levelstolive]

This is the way these tutorials should be because most other ones take a long time to figure out.

[@SilverFenixFyre]

This was way more informative and easier to understand than any other video I've found. Thank you so much for this! Cheers! You've gained a new sub 👍

[@Swashed_]

Awesome man I’m happy to hear it :)

[@user-gv8wy3ij5d]

Thanks for the tutorial. Simple and understandable

[@Swashed_]

Thanks for dropping a comment :)

[@reman4762]

God bless you, i always knew how to change the values for ammo and items but never knew how to change the values for health or stamina in game but well thanks to you now i know!❤😊

[@Legenda12221]

god blast you too ma man🖤🖤

[@Serenjyn]

For someone like myself who doesn’t want to create extensive cheat trainers (I think that’s the term) but just wants to tweak the occasional number in a game, I found your video tremendously helpful. I had watched it months ago and had Cheat Engine on my PC but never got around to trying it. Today I wanted to add some gold in “Army of Ruin” to save me a long grind. I rewatched your video and within 5 to 10 minutes I had 9,999,999 gold pieces in my game. It was so easy that I did the same thing with “20 Minutes Till Dawn”. And if the need arises again with some other game I feel confident I’ll know what to do. At the age of 70 I don’t learn new things that often. Thanks for sharing your knowledge!

[@Swashed_]

This was such a great comment. Thank you for taking the time to write it out :) I'm glad my video helped you!

[@TheReal_GigaChad]

Damn 70 years old and knows how to navigate youtube, hope you're doing good man. Too bad you're subscribed to pakman so you're probably not very smart, but hey, wish you a wonderful rest of your life anyway.

[@bogartin4561ify]

thats messed up but GOD bless you buddy@@TheReal_GigaChad

[@romromkorby8729]

youre the only person ive found that explains it in full and in a way thats understandable, thank you

[@ferryv6740]

I remember using cheat engine way back in i think 2005 2006? Good memories. Still works the same, still easy as can be !

[@adeerworld]

i think the best way to find a unknown value in a 1m+ list is to to AB testing. Freeze half of the values and see if there is an effect, and then continue to freeze the half that has an effect. with 1m values it only take 20 trys to get to 1 option

[@Poloniumuwu]

not really , that could easily lead to a game crash. I have used cheat engine in the past with a 3d singleplayer game , and freezing even 2 wrong adresses could just freeze my game or crash it ( the freeze was pernament , couldnt just unfreeze the value as that did nothing )

[@adeerworld]

Nice didn't know 👍 thanks for the tip

[@giornogiovanna6027]

You deserve a lot more subscribers. Keep making windows and soon we might make it 🙏🙏 The quality and effort you put into this is way better than what other 2k subscriber youtubers put into their videos. Just a little friendly suggestion would be not to have such an abrupt ending other than that everything since the start was perfect. Hope my comment finds you well.

[@Swashed_]

Thanks for leaving such a wonderful comment =] I’m happy to hear you think the quality is good. It’s something I keep trying to improve. Also thanks for the feedback I’ll take note of it!

[@eduferreyraok]

a few things to keep in mind: you can use the "unchanged value" parameter, as long as the game is paused or working in the background... another way to mimic the "unchanged value" it's by doing "next scan" several times for the same value. I still did not manage to get the values for speed of walking in Left 3 Dead, or amount of damage per bullet. those may require a deeper understanding of the execution of the code.@@Swashed_

[@kuyt7504]

i had alot of trouble figuring it out so thank you for making it so simple to understand :)

[@SBmoonbug]

I had been struggling with how to use cheat engine for a long time and your video helped me and everything worked. Thank you so much!

[@y0u_guy]

did you get any viruses with the install? My antiviruses blockes allot of things when i try download it from the official web

[@dark_mode]

Thanks. Your channel is totally underrated. Subbed.

[@Swashed_]

Much appreciated!

[@TheHappyKamper]

As a dad who gets very little gaming time these days, this will be very helpful for games I want to just enjoy, without have to grind away time I don't have. Will be particularly great for Ubi-bloat games.

[@Swashed_]

Yeah exactly. I used to love grinding away in an RPG for hours and hours but I just don’t have the time these days either

[@currentlyhalfdead4987]

Thank you. Your explaination is very easy to understand

[@VictorNetwork]

can we just appreciate how he explained that in just 14 minutes. when i had to watch a 45 minutes to understand this. thx

[@Swashed_]

I’m glad it helped :)

[@San4You20]

thank you this is very useful for me who often play offline games, and not many people explain the details of the use of the cheat engine, you are amazing

[@Swashed_]

Thanks bro

[@Swashed_]

How to Download and Install Cheat Engine Without Virus: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eoK7d6WjZ7dmmLM The next step after this video is to learn how to save your cheats into a cheat table. That video is here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eojHYp-qf72UiM0

[@mobilewindowtinting120]

Can you make video on cheat engine on angry birds 2 please

[@allseeingeye9477]

its work for online games?e.g. got wic. ?

[@Swashed_]

Nope

[@allseeingeye9477]

@@Swashed_ thank you 😀

[@allseeingeye9477]

@@Swashed_ thank you 😀

[@oliverpadilla2156]

Thanks man, I appreciate making it easier to understand.

[@diegodiaz8276]

Oh my god this save me alot of time of figuring out how do use cheat engine thank you so much

[@user-ni8cu3bj6y]

Just in addition, you can apply cheat engine not just in games, but in general programs as well.

[@codm0nsterfan]

free money glitch

[@Scary_podcasts]

Does this work with online apps?

[@user-ni8cu3bj6y]

@@Scary_podcasts i would advice not to, but depends on what kind of "application" or "program". Nowadays mostly it won't work if it's online.

[@Scary_podcasts]

@@user-ni8cu3bj6y tnx

[@GilgameschUruk]

Can I also remove code? Because I have a program that I downloaded, and there is a very annoying pop up that hinders me from continuing to use the program. Is there a way to remove that pop up using cheat engine? Or any way in general?

[@filippetrovic7259]

This is a very good one, indeed. Thank you for this video and explanations. But i just wonder few things. I have played Warcraft. I could modify (freeze) population, but i could not do that for gold, for example. Even though i have selected ,,all" types of data, it still could not find it, not through other windows of cheat engine, for processes. Also, for ,,Age of Mythology", i could find for a population, but data is represented as some random, small number, not having anything to do with number that is exact and written in the game. Is there a way to find it faster, and somehow remember it in application so we could find it directly, and how can we recognize data like that (for example, in game it says 20,but in cheat engine it is 6,36235...)? Also, how are those values remembered and written strange like that? Thanks in advance to you, and for others as well if they write something about it here.

[@mitsuvolts03]

hey mate, just wanted to say i love u for making an easily understandable tutorial

[@Swashed_]

I appreciate dude ❤️

[@phildg4266]

Wow just discovered this channel, amazing explanation and pace! Keep it up!

[@Swashed_]

Awesome, thank you!

[@shiftace11]

This was an excellent explanation of how to use cheat engine! Very easy to follow and understand the reasoning between each click. One thing i wouldve liked to know is this. If you have an RPG for example, that can be played completely offline or online, are you able to manipulate the values, save, then go back online and have these values stay? I think that if can create a save file directly to your PC or console there is a way to manipulate values and make them stay even if you go back online since the save file data is not client side/other inaccessible PC.

[@Swashed_]

Thanks! Yeah you can definitely do that if you’re bringing your offline profile online. I’ve done this with Terraria, Dying Light, Dead Island, and the Borderlands games. In the case of the games I mentioned, you don’t even need to go offline to use it. The server gets the info from your client so you can use it in real-time.

[@purandarbarik8136]

@@Swashed_ so it is going to be fine if i use it on online games that you have mentioned ?

[@KonaBoda]

This actually makes it seem a lot more simple and manageable than I ever would have thought. I still have some questions/concerns, though, primarily: If you accidentally change a value that wasn't the one you were looking for and it breaks something, how do you fix it? And, if you do that trick to change a code to one that does nothing for invulnerability, and you decide you want to change it back, how do you do that?

[@Swashed_]

If you change a value that you shouldn’t have, then either nothing will happen or the game the will crash. Changing the code to do nothing can be reverted in the code list, which can be accessed in the bottom left corner of cheat engine. Just right click on the code and select “replace with original code”

[@cico9319]

Thank you that you help us with that! Thats so great

[@JoinForACoffee]

Amazing guide. Keep up the good work.

[@new_found_corey]

Can you elaborate more on how to do the gained xp increase? Also, if I increase my money, can I go back to playing regularly and still keep my money increase?

[@Swashed_]

So you first scan for the value of how much exp you have, and this finds every memory address that contains that value. Then, you get more exp so the value changes and you scan for the new value, which should narrow down your search. Once you find the memory address, you can set the value to whatever you like. Also, yes, if you change the value, it should remain to whatever you set it to (assuming it’s a single player offline game)

[@new_found_corey]

@@Swashed_ can i do the xp increase and then invite my friend in my session?

[@Swashed_]

What game are you playing? If it’s a simple enough game, you can probably do it while playing together

[@new_found_corey]

@@Swashed_ the regular dead island definitive edition

[@ddlcp]

All cheat engine dose's changes the number to your desired value with this methods

[@defalkotrap7322]

Cheat Engine work also for GTA 5 Online, I gave myself 1 billion and I spent them in 2 months and I had no ban. If you are low level avoid giving yourself too high a value (just for GTA ONLINE). NICE VIDEO and GREAT JOB.

[@scribblescratch3011]

This is really good how you break it down and make it so easy thank you

[@Swashed_]

Thanks man I’m glad it helped

[@TheHappyKamper]

Thanks for the video, very clear and concise.

[@podq3853]

when i put the file in virus total it said virus but is it a virus?

[@Swashed_]

Here, I put out a vid on a few different ways to get cheat engine: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eoK7d6WjZ7dmmLM

[@andybonsu3130]

My system tells me it is a virus

[@new_simsons]

It isn't

[@7PrincessOfHell]

Cheat Engine itself is not a virus. A few antivirus marks it as malware or PUP because it can attach itself to processes and modify memory. The installer you download through their official website is bundled with a bunch of adware. More information about adware can be found from below antimalware vendors.

[@newbruuusstuff8268]

false warning happens to every cheat thing

[@Jacob_plays_the_ukulele]

It is not a virus

[@misc7]

U gonna have too disable ur antivirus

[@user-ye3it9ik7d]

Thanks for this, Ive got a lot of knowledge. since im beginners.

[@Animeluva3]

I loveeee this video short but sweet!

[@mrsotoarturo]

thanks for that it really help because iv had it for 8 years and didn't know that. Its still hard to under stand.

[@user-iq6ws5kr5h]

Thanks mate... surely helped a lot

[@popularrandoms872]

very smart and easy way congrats brother

[@stefanstroie]

Great video! Very useful information and easy to understand. Can you please make a video about how to make a trainer using chest engine please?

[@Devil_Mannan]

thank you so much bro you are a great Teacher!!🥰🥰

[@Swashed_]

Thanks 🙏

[@HussainiKasim]

Thanks bro keep up the good work

[@ryzeonline]

Clear and valuable, thank you! :)

[@Swashed_]

Glad it was helpful!

[@demitrimaxellayer7098]

The most top software in my childhood memories that change value type of any offline games.

[@chefraevn666]

VERY VERY HELPFUL! THANKS SWASHED! :D

[@arkfan5345]

been trying find video where it explains how to find/detect and spawn items. through Item ID's in games. as you can download pre-loaded stuff from others able do this. but not been able figure it out myself yet ^^ love learning

[@LegitKev.]

great video mate cleared a few things up any chance you can explain how to change values in gem craft frostborn wrath as i cant seem to get it to work using cheat engine 7.5

[@dukeofspies6683]

Dude thanks a lot, amazing tutorial

[@Swashed_]

Thx that means a lot 🥲

[@emilssniper2268]

Ty bro real life saver

[@jRsqILVOY]

Could you do a video on pointer / offset searching for creating trainers?

[@934strawberryfields]

Super detailed tutorial thank you

[@Swashed_]

Welcome 🙏

[@CoolPersonTotally1]

This man is a legend 🙌🙌🙌

[@g0ldstripes_]

This video is really interesting :D

[@KioskaraTTV]

Was enjoying a game for the story, couldn't give less of a damn about grinding money. This was the simplest explanation of this software, thanks! (Most others were so long and convoluted I gave up trying)

[@prok3jpeg]

Thanks, this helped a lot.

[@Swashed_]

Glad to hear!

[@DiegoTheLabrador]

very useful thank you

[@bluevector8953]

a great video length for a video like this.

[@Swashed_]

Glad you liked it!

[@Sogious]

this helped alot subbed

[@Swashed_]

Thanks bro 😎

[@coinop7278]

Even with a good tutorial like this, cheat engine is still way beyond the average gamer.

[@Swashed_]

Yeah I mean it’s technically reverse engineering game code..but it can definitely be learned

[@coinop7278]

I used to code in basic. I've been gaming since the c64. We used to call cheats 'pokes' anyway It was easy compared to this. I've realy no time to learn new languages so I guess this cheat app is useless to most people.

[@matasjuskys5654]

really helped thanks

[@oluwatima7811]

You’re excellent bruh ❤❤❤

[@Swashed_]

[@rob_hood7]

thanks bro , because of you , i didnt gave my herath away on lies of p :)

[@VPNuser]

Wow! That's awesome.

[@jaydenvaldez8531]

work for zombies bo2 and before. if your host you cam change everyones values and if your not host you can only change yours

[@LuciferIDC]

This worked thanks

[@dave.F0X]

Also, some games pick a client to be the server, so in this case if you change your values every player might get their values changed. I recall Far Cry 3 being this way.

[@ClipseAnime]

Thanks mate ❤

[@ravnkurt]

great tutorial i just have 1 thing to add, the numbers you get are only numbers atm some numbers to make the cheat stick to the game every time you play the game is a little deeper to search for

[@buurz]

When i do "next scan" or increase/decrease value by exact number, nothing shows up. SOmehting is different with the game im trying to do this with becasue it has worked in other games. Do you know what the problem might be?

[@killerdragon7689]

Thanks i love the way how you help people in videos i got it and im good to go with millions of cash thanks alot

[@Swashed_]

Happy to help

[@luppy937]

btw how do you find unchangable values? like maybe some payed in game items?

[@FINDROBLOX]

even with online games if you can find out something that the client sends to the server for something such as gold you can run that code or change that value and have it give you more than it should but because the client sends it to the server it will work on the server meaning you will actually get the value and it wont be fake its alot harder to do sometimes but it works such as on forza horizon not sure if its online or not with currency but ive tried to add values before and it went back to normal but then i had it so when i finished a race i changed the code to give me more money than it should and it actually gave me the money might not work for every game but does for most

[@Linrox]

Love the video very helpful. I am using a very similar program called pince, it is highly influenced by CE. But i was unable to change the value in game (coh1) for max pop. I found the value that changes when the pop cap goes up, but when i change it, it reverts back to the previous number. I tried to look at what was writing to that address, but i don't know assembler and don't know what to change to affect the max pop. Help please.

[@Swashed_]

It’s possible that max pop is determined by other factors and you can’t directly change that value. I just looked into it and this seems to be the case. It looks like pop cap is hard coded into the game so I don’t think that’s a value you can play around with

[@ChupoCro]

What if the value used for some parameter is stored at many locations a few bits per location and the addresses of those locations change all the time?

[@kubiran3013]

the best cheat engine tutorial

[@Aquapy_gt]

What do i do when im in my game and i scan and it wont show the numbers on the side?

[@drups87]

Thanks for the explanation, it was simple and useful however, I have some doubt in case that I want to increase an attribute that its static... for example de carrying weight for a particular game, do you know if there is a way to find/modify this number? In my case is the game The long dark, that the max weight is 30 Kg. Thanks!

[@-.-...---7]

i would guess searching your initial weight first then pick up more items to increase weight and search again

[@drups87]

@@-.-...---7 Thanks! I will try it out

[@ddlcp]

Its all about modifying the value and narrowing it down to few as much as possible

[@adambas2052]

How do I get cheat engine to work for Galaga does it work the same for every game or do I have to do something different

[@MrFelon]

Issue i have, when i find the money value. i change it. and works right but i want to make it into a script. i put it into a script after putting value up , i go to toggle the cheat and it doesn't work. it wont give me the money amount i put in value before turning it into a script. im new to cheat engine so idk. but everytime i spend money without putting it to a script the value goes down. i want it to stay at the value i want. so if i make it into my own trainer anyone can toggle money and gives them max money. but its not working. when i put it into a script and toggle the cheat i dont get the max money

[@SubidubidubiDu1]

I tried to reverse the date in Daisenryaku from 18th to 17th, and when I wanna try change the vaIue it says like input 200 something, like it doesnt wanna let me use two digit numbers.

[@missakasms]

Very clear

[@fakkfake4051]

Excellent really amazing very working good job

[@Swashed_]

Thank you so much 😀

[@Homer-je1pz]

Thanks bro. Cool quote for you. Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.

[@Swashed_]

Thanks, now I want more of it

[@bucketsGG]

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! sssshhh.. glad, I didn't have to ggrrrriinnnnddd for weeks! With my list of games, I can't afford that hahaha.. THANK YOU SO MUCH!

[@Swashed_]

Heck yeah!

[@icecontrol1]

If for example i play a game and use CE would there be an issue if i play it from the Steam Client?

[@retrogamermonkey3815]

What about games like Final Fantasy XIII? I been trying to get the thing set up for Hit Points but never seem to find the right value and if I do find a value that I'm able to alternate it reverts back to the original one and doesn't do what it previously did

[@InstabilerStoff]

Love how mah man suggests with the calmest of voices to cheat the shit óut of any online game to find a vulnerability 😂

[@Swashed_]

Hundo P. Just don’t be a dick 🫡

[@MrBellias]

great video. I would like to know if the cheat engine would work on Digimon Master Online. tks

[@animemediayt]

is this possible with a game called Predator Hunting Grounds? I've done pretty much the same, attach it to the game, first scanned the amount of credits i have (or vertium as its called) then since i cannot get more till i play a game or so i spend some for decorations, i put the new number in and next scan, it doesnt show me any valuse then, idk if im doing something wrong or your not able to do this with that game? would appreciate tutorial for that one if possible

[@Rudy_-zj3ls]

I have a question after using cheat engine does the cheat still works if i close cheat engine without saving it? And some of the games when i died i lost the cheat everytime i died in the game like i'll have to cheat it again.

[@issacchan5568]

hi thanks for the clear and easy-to-follow instructions however, i would like to ask a question In borderlands 3, there are golden keys that can unlock special chests. Without having access to the keys in early game, i have 0 in my inventory, so what can i do to find the correct variable to change in the cheat engine to increase the number of keys that i have?

[@Swashed_]

Without a way to scan for changes, there is no way to find the address for it. Also I’m pretty sure golden keys are tied to your account and the amount to have is stored online and therefore you wouldn’t be able to cheat for golden keys

[@d3parturee]

Impossible, the golden SHiFT keys are completely tied to online and accounts

[@Laggu]

Don't know if it'll help and I havent play the 3rd game, but I was able to change my golden keys in Borderlands 2. Gearbox gives out those Shift key codes on their social media sites, and some of them never expire so you could use one of those to gain some initial keys. I don't know if they give/gave out codes for the 3rd game though. There's sites that show every code they've given out. Best of luck dude

[@Coyaike]

You can put some cheats like kill in one hit. Increase the damage you deal??

[@ezgi-341]

Are there any lists of games for which we can use cheat engine?

[@regyjr2050]

If I wanted to say change the balance meter in a game how would I detect those values?

[@nqktv7050]

Thank you very much

[@Swashed_]

Any time

[@seadog-te1vj]

hi, thanks for these excellent examples. but I have a complicated situation, can you have a look? I am playing an old simulation game "dangerous water", it's a modern submarine simulating game. I want to achieve the following: for every target detected by my sonar sensor, there is a list of observing bearing lines for the past 4 hours. so I want to retrieve the target list, and every target's bearing lines. Do you have any clue how to do it ?

[@bismarcklegend9729]

Hi im new here please reply it's working on online games? Like airport city?

[@ishii4830]

Another way to find an EXACT value, is by selecting the option 'higher than' your number, and 'less than' your number, make sure the 'Not' option is selected, that should narrow down results by a lot, sometimes giving you a EXACT number.

[@Swashed_]

solid tip

[@amogiseta]

Can you do this but with Cry of fear game? I don’t know how to use this on it.

[@kronic771]

Is it possible to somehow adjust the key so as not to minimize the game by enabling or disabling this function?