Endgame Gear XM2WE Wireless Gaming Mouse Review

A Closer Look & Performance

The XM2WE comes with a little USB dongle, as well as a bridge block that you can use as an extended USB port when paired with the cable.

The cable is Type-C, so you can use your own cable if you wanted to. It’s very lightweight and flexible and features a good-quality paracord braiding. This is used for charging the mouse, but it’ll also allow you to use the mouse in a wired mode too should you need it.

This is a super clean-looking mouse though, it’s very smooth and flowing. Looking at my Glorious Model D Minus, which normally looks sleek, looks aggressive by comparison. The Endgame Gear XM2WE is like a puffed-up marshmallow but overall, the look and feel of it are very nice, it feels surprisingly robust despite being so lightweight.

The side buttons are nice and large and have a rounded design so you can easily trigger them by sliding your thumb up or down over them, or by clicking them in as usual. They have some lovely Kailh switches on the side too, so they feel very tactile and responsive.

The body of the mouse is surprisingly minimalist, just an uninterrupted smooth body shape that feels very comfortable in your hand, and is also very non-distracting, as there are absolutely no RGB antics going on here either. The mouse is also available in black if you find the white a little too bright for your desktop.

Down the right side, there’s a nice set of curves that promote a comfortable and natural finger resting position and gripping point, making it easy to hold the mouse, and very easy to use a light grip and a lift-off technique.

The mouse buttons themselves are absolutely huge, taking up a little over half the length of the mouse body. They’re both individual panels, so there’s going to be no interference from one to the other. Plus, they’re both directly mounded on the switches with zero pre-travel. There’s quite a large area you can use to actuate the switch too, so a long-fingered palm rest or a small handed claw grip should all work as well as each other.

The scroll wheel is quite large but heavily recessed into the mouse body with a soft rubber grip coating, making it very easy to control. It’s not a fast wheel, but it is light and accurate so you can give it a quick flick and it’ll stop dead, making for accurate and fast weapon swaps.

The underside of the mouse has two of the largest PTFE feet I’ve ever seen, especially towards the rear. There’s a good 40% of the surface area here covered with low friction material. This is funny because a mouse this lightweight could get away with a fraction of that. The end result is a mouse that glides like it’s on ice.

The mouse can be turned on and off on the bottom too, sure, it’ll into sleep mode if you leave it, but if you’re storing the mouse in your bag or something, it’s better to turn it off entirely. There’s also a mode button here, which can be used to cycle through your profiles for DPI, macros, etc.

The PixArt sensor is as good as you might expect, it’s not my first time using this sensor, as it’s actually a very common high-end gaming mouse sensor right now, and for good reason. It tracks extremely accurately, it’s got a broad CPI range, and really, I can not find a fault with it.

It’s a great mouse for those who like to dial in their settings and just leave it alone. You can change profiles using the button on the bottom of the mouse, but if you’re like me, you likely never will. I set the DPI to 2000 and largely just left it alone. If you do change your profile, there is a coloured LED indicator on the left side, tap the button to cycle through the profiles which you can set colours to. Don’t worry if you’re not an LED fan though, it turns off after a few seconds.