Side Hustles - Saints Row Guide - IGN (2024)

IGN's guide to Side Hustles includes tips, walkthroughs, and rewards for all the optional side missions you can undertake in Saint's Row. If you're in need of some extra cash, you can take on these missions as they appear all across Santo Ileso's many districts. Each type of Side Hustle carries a theme, and the more you unlock, the harder they'll get - but may provide other rewards once all of them are completed.

See the list of different types of Side Hustles below, as well as where they can be found, and the rewards you can receive:

• @tcha Missions
• Pony Express Missions
• Riding Shotgun Missions
• Choplifting Missions
• Wingsuit Saboteur Missions

@tcha Missions

These missions will have you leaving bad reviews on popular gang haunts to invoke waves of enemies you defeat quickly for a good amount of cash. The lower score you give the place, the tougher the enemy wave will be, and the more money you'll make for surviving.

• 4 Star Review: $1,500, 500 XP
• 3 Star Review: $4,000, 1,200 XP
• 2 Star Review: $8,000, 2,000 XP
• 1 Star Review: $10,000, 2,500 XP

You can unlock these missions by finding and speaking to Kev's friend Sylvia in the Mercado district just south of your HQ. After completing this introductory mission, @tcha missions will appear all over the map. Click on the location below for specific tips.

Pony Express Missions

These missions will have you take on the role of an off-road courier, and must gun it through treacherous terrain and past police blockades to get to your destination in one piece - and before time runs out. You'll have the option to try and dodge nearby police, or risk more stable routes with the cops in hot pursuit.

These missions will also give you bonus objectives - often including intentionally tangling with the police - in order to get bonus experience for the mission. Click on a location below for specific tips and info:

Choplifting Missions

These missions require less firepower and more trick maneuvering, as you'll be tasked to steal important objects using a helicopter's giant magnet and get back in time - and with the object still in one piece. However, given the weight of these objects, you may find these heists difficult to pull off as they threaten to send your chopper spinning out of control due to momentum.

These missions can give you bonus objectives, such as keeping the payload low to the ground for a certain amount of time, and will reward bonus experience when these conditions are met. Click a location below for tips and strategies:

Riding Shotgun Missions

For these side hustles, you'll be accompanying a driver on a dangerous meeting where you can expect things to go sideways. In order to survive, you'll have to help in the getaway by blasting away cars and drivers - either from the passenger seat or by riding on top, but your health will only regen once you're back in the car, and the car will only regain health if you destroy other cars.

In these missions, you'll have a set of extra objectives that can earn you bonus experience for each one completed - like taking out a certain number of drivers or tires. Click on a location below to get tips for the encounter.

Wingsuit Saboteur Missions

This genre of side hustle blends subterfuge and stealth with loud explosives, as you'll be tasked to use your Wingsuit to fly in to various rooftops and plant explosives on radio antennae before detonating them - and dealing with any guards along the way. You'll have to master the art of gliding to get between targets, while wasting no time in finishing your mission before time is up.

The more dangerous the mission, you may find option objectives to achieve that will give you a one-time boost of experience - like using Wingsuit Takedowns on multiple targets. Click on a location below to get tips for how to complete each mission: