Gears of War: Reloaded, the newly released remaster of the original Gears of War, has a low review score on Steam due to crashes and missing split-screen support. This follows a day-one patch that was supposed to fix a number of bugs and crashes on both console and PC.
On August 26, Xbox launched Gears of War: Reloaded–a remastered version of Gears of War: Ultimate Edition, itself a remaster of Gears of War--on Xbox Series X/S, PC, and for the first time in franchise history, PlayStation, a leap it made via a PS5 port. And the game is totally fine if you want to replay Gears of War again. But on PC, players are encountering some annoying issues and are upset about the lack of split-screen. Meanwhile, the Xbox port has a weird FPS bug, and I’ve experienced some issues on PS5, too.
Gears of War: Reloaded’s user review score on Steam sits at 49 percent as of 1 p.m. EST on August 27. That’s not great! Checking out the reviews, it seems a big issue with this new remastered shooter is that it crashes a lot for some folks. What’s odd is that some players claim that Gears of War: Reloaded was running fine shortly after launch, but has started crashing more since then. One fix floating around online involves deleting a specific folder and not connecting to Xbox Live, which seems to imply there might be some server shenanigans happening. Gamesradar reports that Gears of War: Reloaded works fine when downloaded and installed via the Xbox PC Game Store, suggesting that the version on Steam, or at least how it connects to Xbox servers, might not be working properly.
Other players report that changing the game’s graphical settings leads to frequent crashing. I’ll say that on PS5, I ran into two crashes and some weird performance problems as well. Digital Foundry also reports that there’s an odd FPS bug on Xbox Series X that causes the campaign to improperly run at a not-so-stable 120FPS. I also ran into weird FPS issues on PS5 and had to turn off VRR. The PC port also lacks an FOV slider and has some weird limits on keybinding.
The team is investigating crashes on Steam when launching the game and missing pre-order character skins for some users, as well as initial reports of matchmaking issues.
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Thank you for your patience.
— Gears Community (@Community_Gears) August 26, 2025
A day-one patch was supposed to iron a lot of this out, but it doesn’t seem to have completely worked. As a result, Xbox and The Coalition posted on social media on Tuesday that the team is currently “investigating” the PC crashes and reports of online matchmaking errors, as well as an issue in which people who pre-ordered did not receive the cosmetics they were promised for doing so. Keep in mind, this is a remaster of a 10-year-old remaster. It’s wild to me that Gears of War: Reloaded seemingly shipped in such a wonky state.
Another reason for the game’s low rating on Steam is that players thought Gears of War: Reloaded would support split-screen co-op on PC. Split-screen was reportedly listed on the game’s official Steam store page. There’s also evidence that split-screen co-op support was mentioned in Reloaded’s Steam page trailer. But it appears all mentions of split-screen support have since been removed. My guess is that this was a mistake and Xbox never intended to add split-screen to PC. Regardless, it’s just one more reason PC players are disappointed with Gears of War: Reloaded.
