Gears Tactics
Gears Tactics is the fast-paced, turn-based strategy game from one of the most-acclaimed video game franchises – Gears of War. Outnumbered and fighting for survival, recruit and command your squad to hunt down…
Gears Tactics is a strategy developed by Splash Damage, released 28 April 2020 on Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 27 hrs to finish.
What Gears Tactics is
Gears Tactics is a strategy game developed by Splash Damage and released in 2020. It was published by Xbox Game Studios. It is available on Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 4.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Gears Tactics is a turn-based tactics video game developed by Splash Damage in conjunction with The Coalition and published by Xbox Game Studios. It is a spin-off of the Gears of War franchise and a prequel to the first game. The game was released first for Windows on April 28, 2020 and subsequently for Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S on November 10, 2020.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and warfare. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 61 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Gears of War series
Gears Tactics is the tenth of 12 entries we hold in the Gears of War series. It arrived 8 months after Gears 5. The next entry was Gears of War: Reloaded in 2025. Its critic score of 84 is almost exactly the series average of 83. The highest-rated entry is Gears of War 3 at 97.
How it was received
Gears Tactics holds a critic score of 84 out of 100. That places it above 82% of the 3,249 rated strategy games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2020 averaged 73, so it scored 11 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 79, across 74 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 27 hrs.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel i3 Skylake | AMD FX-6000, 8 GB RAM and AMD Radeon R7 260X | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti. An 8GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Install size is roughly 45GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Gears Tactics launched on 28 April 2020, within three weeks of Final Fantasy VII Remake, Deep Rock Galactic, Streets of Rage 4 and Tetris Effect: Connected. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4. It was a Xbox Series launch-window title.
Released around the same time: Final Fantasy VII Remake, Deep Rock Galactic, Streets of Rage 4, Tetris Effect: Connected.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Gears Tactics yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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