Gears of War: E-Day

The core is still Gears: snap to cover, pop out, fire, and push forward with your squad while the Locust try to flank you. E-Day modernises the movement with jumping, vaulting and sliding, which adds verticality and makes flanking far more deliberate. Classic weapons return in reworked forms next to new close-range guns built for brutal short-distance fights.

The campaign runs solo or online with up to four players. Horde Siege is the big co-op mode: pick a class from Assault, Marksman, Medic or Breacher, drop in as a four-player squad and hold out on larger maps against waves of Locust. Multiple squads can share objectives and gang up on world bosses, and surviving earns rewards, customisation and loadout upgrades for the next match.

Versus covers the competitive side with new maps and returning 4v4 modes. Ranked playlists are there for climbers and Social playlists for casual nights, and mastery is the familiar Gears mix of positioning, cover timing and close-range nerve. Cross-platform play lets you squad up with friends on other supported platforms, with optional account linking for roaming saves and invites. On PC you get uncapped frame rates, 21:9 and 32:9 ultrawide, full keyboard, mouse and controller remapping, DLSS 4.5, FSR Redstone, frame generation and a built-in benchmark.

Emergence Day is the moment the Gears world broke. Fourteen years before the events of the original game, the Locust Horde erupt from beneath the surface of the planet and start tearing through its cities. Marcus Fenix and Dominic Santiago are on the ground when it happens, and the campaign follows their first desperate fight to survive a war that nobody saw coming.

The Coalition has pushed the tone toward horror. Familiar Locust are reworked to be more threatening, new creatures and villains join them, and the world is built to feel grounded and dangerous rather than heroic. For longtime fans, it fills in the day the saga always looked back on. For newcomers, it is the natural starting point, since everything else in the saga follows from this day.

Gears of War: E-Day is out now on Windows PC through Steam at US$69.99. Local prices are RM299 in Malaysia, S$89.90 in Singapore, ₱3,490 in the Philippines, ฿1,999 in Thailand and Rp 899,000 in Indonesia. It supports 22 languages, including Japanese, Korean and both Chinese scripts, but none from Southeast Asia. A hardware ray tracing GPU is mandatory: minimum is an RTX 2060, RTX 5050, RX 6600 or RX 9060 with 12 GB of RAM and 115 GB on an SSD. It is optimised for Steam Deck, needs broadband and a Microsoft account, and supports cross-platform play.