Game
Gears of War: E-Day
- Developer
- The Coalition
- Publisher
- Xbox Game Studios
- Released
- Genre
- Third-person shooter
- Platforms
- PCXbox
Gears of War: E-Day is a third-person cover shooter by The Coalition, published by Xbox Game Studios for Xbox Series X|S and PC on October 6, 2026. It is a prequel to the whole series, set on Emergence Day, the morning the Locust Horde burst out of the ground of Sera, and it puts a young Marcus Fenix and Dominic Santiago back in the roles that opened the first Gears of War in 2006.
CRIT6 reviewed the campaign at launch and found the series' best in years: a brutal, cinematic origin story that keeps the chainsaw, the cover and the squad banter and executes them better than before, without the loose threads of the later numbered entries.
Stories
Gears of War: E-Day review: the war's first day is the series' best in years
The Coalition goes back to the day the Locust broke through the streets of Sera, and returns with a campaign that makes Gears feel essential again.