PROS + The campaign is far better than those of Gears 4 and 5 + One of the best visual showcases for Unreal Engine 5 + Gameplay changes add more depth to combat, since you can customize your weapons and gear + The story nails the portrayal of the Locust Horde's brutality and humanity's desperation in the face of this new enemy + The new weapons feel great to use + Bosses are tough and require strategy to defeat + The game now features open areas with secondary objectives and a map CONS - Solo play has some drawbacks, as the squad AI isn't as smart as it should be - There are some technical bugs that need fixing; one related to Frame Generation was patched today at launch - Open areas are much more demanding on performance than linear ones; I recommend enabling Frame Gen when playing in them Overall, it’s a great return for Gears, featuring its best campaign since the original trilogy, which, imo, is still better. I can't comment on multiplayer or Horde mode, as they were unavailable until today.
Gears of War: E-Day
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Developer / Publisher
The Coalition / Xbox Game Studios
Release date
Oct 6, 2026 (Coming soon)
Genres
Action, Adventure
Russian language
Text only, no voice-over
Price
$69.99
Steam recommendations
809
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Based on the 671 most recent Steam reviews · updated 2 Oct 2026
- English reviews: 641, 1 Oct 2026 – 2 Oct 2026
- Russian reviews: 30, 1 Oct 2026 – 2 Oct 2026
- ▲ Recommended0.4 h at review6.5 h total1 Oct 2026
The vibes/gameplay and graphics are all top tier, they actually cooked with this one. They optimized the heck out of this from the beta, runs great on Steam Machine now at 1440p with FSR4
78 found helpful · 4 found funnyPerformanceGraphicsGameplayReviews written: 82On Steam - ▼ Not recommended4.7 h at review4.7 h total2 Oct 2026
This game is being flooded with bots and paid feedback to hide the review bombing this game deserves. some accounts with .4 hours in the game and writing a review on how amazing it is. the game is awful. movement feels clunky, TTK is here and there, audio is literally like playing in a trash can. i can hear Dom from across the map when it sounds like he is right behind me. Its either footsteps that don't exist and I'm shot gunned in the face OR sound like they are right behind me yet no one is there. In game its borderline indistinguishable who is a cog and who is a locust half the time. everyone looks the same, literally. Do not even get me started on the campaign. In a game who has always been known for incredible campaigns and amazing storylines......what the hell is this. ignore the game crashes in a campaign mode, but missing characters on the helicopter, T posing NPCs, aura farming aunties waltzing down a block of locusts.....constant cutscenes with so much drama involved.... and just awful........awful character development. Charging 100$ for this is tragic. Another giant has fallen, so long to the days of some of the great game developing companies dying to greed and providing unfinished and rushed product. Gears 2 is 20 years old and is far more advanced than this.
42 found helpful · 13 found funnyPerformanceStoryReviews written: 2On Steam - ▼ Not recommended1.7 h at review2.6 h total1 Oct 2026
Horrible optimization. Must be the Locust EMP attack on E-Day. Beefy system, still crawling at 60 FPS? Hitches and stutters every time a Drone blinks. Unacceptable.
33 found helpful · 14 found funnyPerformanceReviews written: 60On Steam - ▲ Recommended17 h at review17 h total1 Oct 2026
PROS + The campaign is far better than those of Gears 4 and 5 + One of the best visual showcases for Unreal Engine 5 + Gameplay changes add more depth to combat, since you can customize your weapons and gear + The story nails the portrayal of the Locust Horde's brutality and humanity's desperation in the face of this new enemy + The new weapons feel great to use + Bosses are tough and require strategy to defeat + The game now features open areas with secondary objectives and a map CONS - Solo play has some drawbacks, as the squad AI isn't as smart as it should be - There are some technical bugs that need fixing; one related to Frame Generation was patched today at launch - Open areas are much more demanding on performance than linear ones; I recommend enabling Frame Gen when playing in them Overall, it’s a great return for Gears, featuring its best campaign since the original trilogy, which, imo, is still better. I can't comment on multiplayer or Horde mode, as they were unavailable until today.
32 found helpfulPerformanceGraphicsGameplayStoryReviews written: 31On Steam - ▼ Not recommended1.5 h at review8.6 h total1 Oct 2026
Great game, just needs slightly better optimization. The cpu usage is brutal.
22 found helpful · 9 found funnyPerformanceGames owned: 1,939 · Reviews written: 87On Steam - ▼ Not recommended1.3 h at review4.3 h total1 Oct 2026
Very poorly optimized, i have a rtx 5090 and this game barely reaches high FPS on performance mode, not even 120hz. Still a lot of bugs on it. Its a shame, I was very excited for this game after I played the beta, but PvP is also unoptimized.
20 found helpful · 11 found funnyPerformanceReviews written: 67On Steam - ▼ Not recommended6.4 h at review6.4 h total1 Oct 2026
The game intermittently freezes every 10-25 minutes. Performance was very laggy, inconsistent, even with frame generation on. It stutters/hitches during gameplay. Furthermore, input lag was noticeably bad too. Also, the game suffers memory leak due to Unreal Engine 5 optimization. Hence, The Coalition dev team needs to release a patch as soon as possible.
20 found helpful · 3 found funnyPerformanceGameplayReviews written: 278On Steam - ▼ Not recommended1 h at review3.2 h total1 Oct 2026
Could try to review the game, but when it crashes every time I launch it and causes it to corrupt... what can I review other than another disastrous pile of wasted Bytes..
16 found helpful · 11 found funnyPerformanceGames owned: 1,259 · Reviews written: 26On Steam - ▼ Not recommended0.1 h at review0.4 h total1 Oct 2026
issues launching the game cant even get past unreal engine and game just suddenly crashes i had high hopes for a company like this but ig not
13 found helpful · 24 found funnyPerformanceReviews written: 4On Steam - ▼ Not recommended0.6 h at review0.6 h total1 Oct 2026
They missed the target audience with this one. This story is what happens when the companies that make the products are not staffed by people who these products are made for. The game on LUDICROUS graphic settings runs at 30-45 fps 4k with DLAA on. This PC is overclocked and utilizing a 5090, 64GB DDR5 6400 MT/s, 9800X3D 5.7ghz stable overclock. Being forced to use frame generation is like taking one step forward and two steps back.
12 found helpful · 5 found funnyPerformanceGraphicsStoryGames owned: 327 · Reviews written: 9On Steam - ▼ Not recommended8.9 h at review9.9 h total2 Oct 2026
keeps crashing once an hour
9 found helpful · 1 found funnyPerformanceReviews written: 1On Steam - ▼ Not recommended1.8 h at review1.8 h total1 Oct 2026
Game runs hot asf, feels clunky asf, feels like an old arcade game. I'm definitely refunding this gears 1, 2, 3, 4 all great, this one feels like ass. You can't queue for a specific game mode in versus and it's 90% of the time person carries something everyone protects while other team tries to get it. Horde mode is soooooo boring and uninteresting, someone goes down after point blanking a giant frog they rage quit immediately and you stuck with bots. In horde mode FPS drop when in a fight with 5 enemies wtf???? Gnasher feels like ass this game, it doesn't tell you on the death screen how much damage you did.... everything feels inconsistent and clunky. I hit onyx rank easily every time rank reset but this game I feel like im doing nothing like my bullets ain't registering or doing as much damage as the next guy. Hard pass on this one maybe if the deluxe edition was 40 bucks and base game was 20 I'd recommend it, but for 100$ it doesn't offer enough.
9 found helpful · 11 found funnyPerformanceValueReviews written: 98On Steam - ▲ Recommended12 h at review12 h total1 Oct 2026
Gears of War E-Day has been the best addition to this franchise since the first game. As Xbox is shaking up everything, the Coalition studio is coming out with their revving chainsaw and, except for the feeling where the story was a bit stretched out just to get more gameplay stacked in, which I can forgive because the gunplay and the combat level were well designed. But yeah, at some places they could’ve picked up the pace. This is the E-Day that we have been hearing about throughout the rest of the games that came in the franchise before, and you actually get to live through this. There is a moment in the beginning where people are not sure what is happening and trying to figure it out, but as a gamer, because we have seen the aftermath, you would think that you know everything that is gonna be thrown at you, but the game does an excellent job of presenting it to you to experience it fresh. It was kind of a survival combat at the beginning, well, depends a bit also on what kind of difficulty you play at, but also seeing how you first get the chainsaw attached to the Lancer and the struggle to survive this sudden attack by the Locust is really impactful. They managed to put in great boss fights along with semi-open levels where, if you choose to engage, you can get more out of this shooting combat mechanism which they perfected this time with verticality. All the levels where you have to fight an onslaught of hordes, you can run around, get a higher ground to use the vertically designed presentation to you in this game and get an edge over your opponent, and there are some phases where you get to feel the genuine horror of people finding out what they’re up against. The game has some good narrative of all the characters thrown into it, and they do present it to you in a moment of calmness, which I felt was a good way to take a small break between all the fights, as you should be. I also think that storytelling through cut scenes in in this game is way better than what I can recall from the previous game. There is a heart to it, the performance is very touching, and this game actually looks like a current Gen game so other than it being a bit stretched out while trying to ride its highs and mark my words, the highs are super good highs, It sometimes stretches itself a bit thin, but then it picks right back to the highs, which sadly hasn’t been the case with most Xbox games or the previous game of this franchise. There is less reliance on tech this time around. It’s mostly guns, bullets, bombs, grenades, and at times boom guns, which are really loved. so yeah, the new guns make a lot of sense. You have armour mods, you have injector mods, and you have the ability to add mods to your weapons, which greatly help if you’re playing on harder difficulties and makes the combat so much more worth the struggle. What else? The collectibles that some are complaining about, yeah, there is a lot of them, but I did not hear any constant pinging noise. There was maybe just a small vibration on my controller, which indicated that they’re around. Sometimes they are marked if you press the scan button, and sometimes they’re not, and you just have to find them out. and the city changes over the course of the three in game days. So you have to explore a bit and you do get to get some side quests which do have some thoughtful touch to them of how a war affects everyone. so give this game a go if you have a chance. I really feel that they did an excellent job of bringing back a shooter game which kind of combines the survival and at times horror factor in it from my side. It’s a genuine good game and at times felt a 9. but only because it gets stretched out gets an 8.5 out of 10
9 found helpful · 2 found funnyPerformanceGameplayStoryReviews written: 10On Steam - ▼ Not recommended2.9 h at review7.6 h total2 Oct 2026
Fix your ♥♥♥♥ game freezes and crashes after playing for a set amount of time.
8 found helpfulPerformanceReviews written: 6On Steam - ▼ Not recommended8.9 h at review8.9 h total2 Oct 2026
As much of a Gears fanboy that I am, and as much as I really do enjoy this game - The problems are very apparent. When the game is running smoothly it's *chefs kiss* but the CRASHING IS ***** ROUGH. Holding off on playing the campaign until that's taken care of, or atleast dampened because as of right now when someone leaves your Squad on Horde Siege, it's most likely because they crashed. I had it happen 3 times, once I was just in the main menu admiring the COG helmet... The crashes are crazy frequent so as of right now no, I don't recommend. Lets see some hot fixes before the sixth and i'll change my review but right now man ngl people are not overexaggerating with the crashes... <3 you Coalition but fix ya sheet.
7 found helpfulPerformanceGames owned: 193 · Reviews written: 19On Steam - ▼ Not recommended4.5 h at review8.3 h total2 Oct 2026
Play game. Get weapon parts. Game crashes. No parts because no extract. Better to waste time somewhere else when the game rewards your time with no progression. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
6 found helpful · 2 found funnyPerformanceReviews written: 24On Steam - ▲ Recommended4.1 h at review5.1 h total2 Oct 2026
пока обзор из раннего доступа, потом дополню ----- это самое, нет не так.. ЭТО САМОЕ ЛУЧШЕЕ, что выходило за последние полгода!! - сочный и кинематографичный графон - мясо, локусты, звуки, взрывы, анимации - ОПТИМИЗАЦИЯ!! боже, она великолепна - всё супер, даже не знаю как ещё обозвать этот шедевр - мультиплеер божественен.. 4 мужика в отряде, 3 отряда, все друг другу помогают ,если смогут, поднимают всю легшую твою тиму, если рядом, если нет - помянем :D - никаких проблем вообще не встретил. то что не получил сразу ништяки премиум издания - зайти надо во внутриигровой магаз, и жмякнуть на "купить премиум пасс", игра обработает и выдаст всё что должно, ну и потом гляньте у себя в DLC, будет 5 сезонных пропусков и плюхи прем издания (да, Halo Studios/343 Indastries, с куском непонятного Halo Campaign Evolved?) тут великолепно абсолютно всё (я не восхваляю просто так) оптимизон прям наишикарнейший, как будто это не Xbox\The Coalition делала, а CAPCOM - на моём железе, с выкрученными в ultra\Ludicrous в разрешении 3440*1440 с dlss ультра качество (не натив, иначе прям некомфортненько :D), ну и конечно желательно включить генерацию кадров и рефлекс+буст выдаёт в райне 95-115, в мультиплеере стабильно держит 95. на сервера пускает без впн и всяких других приколов, в акк xbox/майкрсофта спокойно зашёл (подцепил, что бы залутать ништяки изданий) вот так надо делать ранний доступ, игру и оптимизацию, а не как то, что вышло в июле, да 343 Indstries/Halo Studio? абслютли мастхев для всех а ну и помянем Карлоса, который чуть не отправил к праотцам Феникса, потому что спёр тухлую жрачку и накормил ею
6 found helpfulPerformanceGraphicsGames owned: 533 · Reviews written: 14On Steam - ▼ Not recommended4.5 h at review6.7 h total2 Oct 2026
Constant crashes, why so little content on launch??? Better than beta but still feels early access.
5 found helpful · 1 found funnyPerformanceReviews written: 14On Steam - ▲ Recommended0.6 h at review1.6 h total1 Oct 2026
A return to form for the series. Gears is back baby! Lets put them grubs back in the ground. 1440p ultra settings 80 fps. native res.
5 found helpful · 1 found funnyPerformanceGames owned: 110 · Reviews written: 4On Steam - ▲ Recommended2.3 h at review2.3 h total2 Oct 2026
Hello my friends 🙂 I checked out Gears of War E! today on the Steam Deck and Steam Machine, and I have to say, performance-wise I expected more. Generally speaking, it looks a little better on the Steam Deck than in the beta, but it's still far from being playable. :/ It's a real shame; the game proves once again that UE5 usually means poor optimization. It's a pity... On the Steam Machine, it definitely runs acceptably, but not really well either. :/ Here's a little preview... Steam Deck: https://youtu.be/EQjALVFZ2SM Steam Machine: https://youtu.be/wXeTA6fprbk If you like the videos, please leave some support. Thank you so much for your attention ❤️
4 found helpfulPerformanceGames owned: 1,211 · Reviews written: 71On Steam