Gears 5 similar games & best alternatives

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Gears 5

Xbox Series X|S, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox One • 2019

Should you play it?

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 works

  • Engaging cooperative multiplayer modes
  • Challenging and satisfying combat
  • Strong visual and audio presentation
  • Compelling campaign with character development
  • Good value especially on sale

Things to keep in mind

  • Campaign story pacing uneven
  • Open-world segments sometimes feel empty
  • Friendly ai can be ineffective
  • Multiplayer community can be toxic
  • Some technical issues with controls and sound

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Halo: The Master Chief Collection

  • STAR WARS™ Battlefront™ II

  • Titanfall® 2

  • Battlefield 4™

  • Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009)

  • ARC Raiders

Less dominating

Games that feels like Gears 5 but with less domination over others

  • Resident Evil 6

  • Zombie Army Trilogy

  • Killing Floor 2

  • Resident Evil Revelations

  • Sniper Elite: Nazi Zombie Army 2

  • Borderlands 2

Less competitive

Games that feels like Gears 5 but with less competition against others

  • Dead Space™ 3

  • Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy

  • Space Hulk: Deathwing Enhanced Edition

  • Mass Effect™: Andromeda Deluxe Edition

  • Warhammer 40,000: Darktide

  • John Carpenter's Toxic Commando

Less value-seeking

Games that feels like Gears 5 but with less emphasis on value for time or money

  • Call of Duty®: Black Ops II

  • Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine - Anniversary Edition

  • Zombie Army 4: Dead War

  • Destiny 2

  • Call of Duty®: Black Ops III

  • Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 3 (2011)

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Each card is a nearby game on the similarity map, compared with Gears 5. Swipe sideways to move between games. Titles already listed in What to play next are left out.

  • Cover and title: open that game’s page.
  • What works / keep in mind: the same highlights as the desktop comparison panel.
  • Bars: the main motivational differences versus this game.
How to use the graph

Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Swipe to compare nearby games with Gears 5. These titles are not in What to play next.

Gears 5: Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Competition, Status, Fellowship, Domination. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Cooperation, Story, Violence.

Last update: 21/08/2026