Gears 5
Skip · Shooter · 2019
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 20, under the fair line, at $29.99.
- Cost per hour▼
- $2.65/hr
- Reviews▼
- 71% of 25,499
- Critics
- 82 players 11 lower
- Genre rank
- Top 74% Shooter
Holding it back: Monetization, DRM
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 11.3h
- To 100%
- 19.2h 1.7x the story
- Achievements
- 181
Price and sales
- Sales
- 43 on record
- Typical cut
- 66% off
- Steam low
- $4.49 July 2026
- Sale every
- 52d last June 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 269 now
- Recent reviews
- 69% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 7% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 30% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
70% start to <1% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
July 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $4.49. 43 discounts in the 7 years on record, a median of 66 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart.
It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 70 percent. Resident Evil 5 ($19.99, scores 63) outscores it, and so does Resident Evil 6 ($19.99, scores 49). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
More about Gears 5
Critics scored it 82, but players land 11 points lower at 71 percent. The reviews were kinder than the room.
14 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2025 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 36 percent of the 2,657 reviews written there were positive, against 71 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it. It carries the aggressive kind of in-app purchases, and the score already docks it for that. The sticker price is where the spending starts.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 6 of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
My thoughts on this game are pretty mixed. This was my first, and I think probably my last, experience with the Gears series. I played it solo and later went through the campaign with friends, but even then I couldn't really understand what the appeal of this game was supposed to be. Gameplay For the most part, I found it pretty boring. Maybe back in the mid-2000s, when the first games came out, this kind of...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
MC is mid Story is mid Gameplay is ok Visual is really good The game feels boring and mediocre to me
Let me first say that this is one of my most beloved gaming franchises and I have been fan since the first game came out. So I finally tried Gears 5 to see if it's really "that bad" and I must say - it really is not. Yes, the main characters (Del and Kait) aren't the most interesting and I wish we could play as our old beloved characters from previous games, but that's about the only downside for me. I was...
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About the game
From one of gaming’s most acclaimed sagas, Gears is bigger than ever. With all-out war descending, Kait Diaz breaks away to uncover her connection to the enemy and discovers the true danger to Sera – herself.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, 80 GB of storage. Windows only.
Cite this score
Gears 5 scores 20/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1097840/gears-5Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.