Gears 5
Skip · Shooter · 2019
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $29.99.
- Length
- 11.3h
- Value
- $2.65/hr
- Reviews
- 71% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, 80 GB of storage. Windows only.
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.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
July 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $4.49. 43 discounts in the 7 years on record. They run about 66 percent off, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.
It is pricier than 87 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 67 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.
Critics scored it 82, but players land 11 points lower at 71 percent. The reviews were kinder than the room.
14 of the 799 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2025 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 36 percent of the 2,654 reviews written there were positive, against 71 percent overall, and those are 13 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.
The drop-off
70% start to <1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
230 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Amazingly well optimised and classic gears action. Runs 90fps on my laptop 4050 at 3440x1440 with incredible graphics
Solid game , if you know gears of war then you should know what to expect . Gnashers rule , learn to wall bounce and play the meta or youll suck and hate it lol. fun for me
This should been movie not a game, coming from from gears of war 2 and 3 its beyond boring.... the poor chain saw... another triple A slop
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Gears 5 scores 20/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1097840/gears-5The BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 5, price as of Sep 24.
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