Gears 5

Third-person shooter with a semi-open campaign and co-op battles

The Coalition · Published by Xbox Game Studios · Released Sep 9, 2019

Reviews: Mostly Positive; 71% of 25K
Recent reviews: Mostly Positive; 76% of 260 in 30 days
Playing now: 157; right now
Steam Deck: Playable
Last update: 3 years ago; Jun 21, 2023

What is Gears 5?

A third-person action shooter set on Sera, with a campaign that alternates linear missions and open areas as you fight enemy forces. Kait Diaz leaves the wider war effort to investigate her connection to the enemy, while Versus provides competitive matches and Horde and Escape provide class-based cooperative play.

For you if...

+you like campaigns that mix linear missions and exploration
+you want class-based cooperative battles alongside competitive matches
+you plan to play locally through split-screen

Not for you if...

−you prefer shooters without gore or graphic violence
−you want a campaign built only from linear missions
−you do not want to sign into an Xbox profile

What players say

71% of 25,293 reviews are positive · 76% of 260 in the last 30 days

Players praise the combat, environment variety, and multiplayer modes, particularly Horde and Escape. Common complaints focus on the campaign's writing and pacing, persistent bugs and crashes, and failures when signing into the required Xbox account.

Screenshots and trailer

Gears 5 system requirements

As published by the developer.

Minimum

OS: Windows 7 SP1 64-bit, Windows 10 64-bit
Processor: AMD FX-6000 series | Intel i3 Skylake
Graphics: AMD Radeon R9 280 | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 (Windows 10) | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 (Windows 7)
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Storage: 80 GB available space
DirectX: Version 12

PC version details

DRM, required accounts, controller support and Steam features.

DRM: None declared on Steam
Third-party account: Xbox Live
Controller: Keyboard and mouse
Platforms: Windows
Achievements: 181
Steam features: Cloud saves, Family Sharing, Trading cards, In-app purchases
Age rating: 17+

Steam Deck: Playable

Default controller config not fully functional
Some text entry requires manually opening the on-screen keyboard
Some in-game text is small and may be hard to read
Shows Steam Deck controller icons
Default graphics settings perform well on Steam Deck
Singleplayer gameplay requires active internet connection

Multiplayer and co-op

Languages

Full audio: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Spanish - Latin America, Traditional Chinese. Text only: Arabic, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Turkish.