Gears of War: E-Day ships with 55 achievements, and the split leans heavily toward multiplayer. A handful come naturally from playing the campaign to the end, but the biggest grinds live in Horde Siege and Versus, where you rack up tens of thousands of kills, max out classes, and re-up your player level.
Quick answer: To unlock all 55, finish the campaign on Insane with 100% completion (all Hard Cases, collectibles, secondary objectives, and Supply Cache items), reach 25,000 Versus kills, max your player level, and max all four Horde Siege classes. Doing that chain fires “Dead Serious,” and clearing every other achievement fires “The Lucky Ones Died on E-Day.”
How the 55 achievements break down
Most achievements are worth 15 points. A smaller group of completion milestones award 25 points, two capstone feats hand out 75 and 85, and the “earn everything” achievement is worth 0. Gears of War: E-Day is an Xbox and PC exclusive, and this final achievement works like a PlayStation Platinum trophy for the game.
| Point value | What it usually means |
|---|---|
| 0 | Awarded for earning every other achievement |
| 15 | Story beats, single tasks, and most multiplayer milestones |
| 25 | Full-campaign clears and large multiplayer grinds |
| 75 & 85 | Insane 100% completion and the full end-game chain |
Campaign story achievements (Acts 1–5)
The campaign runs across five Acts. Each of the following unlocks automatically as you push through the story, so simply playing to the credits earns all of them. “FNG” comes even earlier, from finishing Boot Camp.
| Achievement | How to unlock | Points |
|---|---|---|
| FNG | Complete Boot Camp | 15 |
| Emergence Begins | Progress through Act 1 | 15 |
| We Must Improvise | Progress through Act 1 | 15 |
| The Bigger They Are… | Progress through Act 1 | 15 |
| The Scorched Legion | Progress through Act 2 | 15 |
| You Want What On the Front of a Gun?! | Progress through Act 2 | 15 |
| Got to the Choppa | Progress through Act 2 | 15 |
| Get Back You Eight-legged Freak | Progress through Act 3 | 15 |
| Twice the Pride, Double the Fall | Progress through Act 3 | 15 |
| …The Harder They Fall | Progress through Act 3 | 15 |
| End of the Line | Progress through Act 4 | 15 |
| The Only Good Bug is a Dead Bug | Progress through Act 4 | 15 |
| Nothing Left but the Fight | Progress through Act 5 | 15 |
| For My Boys | Progress through Act 5 | 15 |
Campaign completion and collectibles
These reward thorough play. You need every Hard Case, every collectible, all secondary objectives, and all Supply Cache items to fully clear the campaign side. The Insane clear (“Today We Are Canceling the Apocalypse”) is the prerequisite that later feeds into the game’s hardest capstones.
| Achievement | How to unlock | Points |
|---|---|---|
| You’re My Brother | Complete all Acts in Co-Op on any difficulty | 15 |
| Side Piece | Complete all campaign secondary objectives | 15 |
| Relax. I’m the Map. | Discover all Hard Cases in the campaign | 15 |
| Memories From E-Day | Find all campaign collectibles | 15 |
| Quartermaster | Unlock all Supply Cache items in the campaign | 15 |
| Remember Kalona | Complete all Acts on any difficulty | 25 |
| Today We Are Canceling the Apocalypse | Complete all Acts on Insane difficulty | 25 |
Horde Siege achievements
Horde Siege is the reworked co-op wave survival mode, and it holds the largest cluster of achievements. Several tie to specific class tools such as the Sonic Disruptor, Injector, Pulse Drone, and Stim Vaporizer, so you will need to spread play across roles. The heaviest grind here is “I WILL MASSACRE YOU,” which asks for 50,000 total enemy kills.
| Achievement | How to unlock | Points |
|---|---|---|
| Lift Outta Hell | Complete and survive 50 missions on Infantry or higher | 15 |
| Best I Can Do Is a Pizza Party | Complete 100 secondary objectives | 15 |
| Turn It Up to 11 | Execute 50 enemies stunned by the Sonic Disruptor | 15 |
| Never Fight Alone | Extract with all squadmates alive on Allfather difficulty | 15 |
| Just Let Me Get One More… | Get 100 revives | 15 |
| I Am Heavy Weapons Guy | Kill 10 enemies in a row with one detached turret | 15 |
| I’m All Amped Up | Hold 30 seconds of Adrenaline with the Injector | 15 |
| Spotted and Slotted | Pulse 1,000 enemies with the Pulse Drone | 15 |
| Form-Up! | Receive the max reward from a Perk Cache | 15 |
| Who Loves Ya, Baby? | Revive 20 players from other squads | 15 |
| Down, but Not Dead | Revive 250 squadmates from DBNO with the Stim Vaporizer | 15 |
| Stacks, On Stacks, On Stacks | Spend 150,000 Energy at the Supply Cache | 15 |
| Like a Boss | Complete 25 Invasion Events | 15 |
| This Is My Rifle | Unlock all Weapon Mods | 15 |
| Crepe du Raven | Inspect the underside of a Raven | 15 |
| I Didn’t Hear No Bell | Save your entire squad while near death | 15 |
| Field Service | Reach Player Level 100 and Re-Up for the first time | 15 |
| Got Your Wings | Re-Up for the final time and claim your wings | 25 |
| Siege Specialist | Max the Assault, Breacher, Marksman, and Medic classes | 25 |
| I WILL MASSACRE YOU | Kill 50,000 enemies | 25 |
Versus and other PvP achievements
Versus is the refined 4v4 competitive mode. Three of these come from mode-specific plays, and the fourth is a long haul. “HEY NOW, YOU’RE AN ALL STAR…” needs 25,000 kills in Versus, which is also part of the final completion chain.
| Achievement | How to unlock | Points |
|---|---|---|
| Somebody Set Us Up the Bomb | Plant the bomb in Demolition and let it explode undefused | 15 |
| It Only Game, Why You Heff to Be Mad? | Win a game of Conquest without the enemy scoring | 15 |
| Days Since Last Accident: 0 | Commit a workplace safety violation on Battleship | 15 |
| HEY NOW, YOU’RE AN ALL STAR… | Get 25,000 kills in Versus | 25 |
Enemy and weapon-specific achievements
This set rewards one-off actions against specific enemies or with signature weapons. Most can be earned in either the campaign or Horde Siege as the right foe appears. “Chainsaw Go Brrrrrrrrr,” for example, only asks you to chainsaw a Locust once.
| Achievement | How to unlock | Points |
|---|---|---|
| Brotector | Save another player from a struggle with a Locust | 15 |
| Okay, Boomer. | Carve up a Boomer | 15 |
| Right in the Ticker | Convert a Ticker and return it to sender | 15 |
| Chainsaw Go Brrrrrrrrr | Chainsaw a Locust in Campaign or Horde Siege | 15 |
| Explosive Indigestion | Detonate a Bilefrog | 15 |
| Two Grubs, One Gut-Punch | Hit two Grubs with a single Gut-Puncher round | 15 |
| Payback’s A Pitch | Take revenge on an Armored Wretch that stunned you | 15 |
The three completion capstones
These are the gatekeepers for 100%. “For Whom The Bell Tolls” bundles the full Insane clear with all side missions and hidden items. “Dead Serious” stacks that campaign requirement on top of the biggest multiplayer grinds. Clear everything and “The Lucky Ones Died on E-Day” pops on its own.
| Achievement | Requirement | Points |
|---|---|---|
| For Whom The Bell Tolls | Complete the campaign on Insane, finish all side missions, and find all hidden items | 75 |
| Dead Serious | 100% the campaign on Insane, reach 25,000 Versus kills, max your Player Level, and max all four classes | 85 |
| The Lucky Ones Died on E-Day | Earn every other achievement | 0 |
Note: the campaign work you do for “For Whom The Bell Tolls” also counts toward “Dead Serious,” so plan a single Insane 100% run rather than repeating it. The two multiplayer targets that carry the most time are the 25,000 Versus kills and maxing all four Horde Siege classes.
When you can start earning them
Gears of War: E-Day launches on Xbox Series X|S and PC on October 6, 2026, and it is a day-one release on Xbox Game Pass and PC Game Pass. Players who pre-order the Premium or Collector’s Edition get five days of early access, so those buyers can begin working through the list ahead of the standard launch. You can confirm edition details on the official Gears of War: E-Day store page.
Because the achievement set is unusually front-loaded with multiplayer grinds, the fastest path to a full clear is to run the campaign once on Insane with full collectible cleanup, then commit the bulk of your remaining time to Horde Siege and Versus. Everything else on the list falls into place along the way.
