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Borderlands 4

Borderlands 4 is a mayhem-fueled looter shooter, jam-packed with billions of weapons, deadly enemies, and intense co-op action. Break free from a dangerous hidden planet as one of four new badass Vault Hunters.

Developer
Gearbox Software
Publisher
2K
Franchise
Borderlands
Release date
Sep 11, 2025
Store page updated
Sep 14, 2026
Price
−50% $69.99 $34.99 · Steam store ↗

Review Analysis Score

29.0/ 100

Based on 407 reviews from the past 1 year

Steam User Rating
Recent 😐 Mixed 47% of 1,036
All time 😐 Mixed 58% of 85,703
“fun with lots to do, what you expect from Borderlands”

How it holds up

−50+5
Gameplay
-1.41
Freedom -1.48

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Story & World
-1.76
Story -1.61
“ending was bland and boring with few returning characters from previous games” (30)

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Content Volume
-2.04
Variety -2.96
“open world padding, forgettable side quests, bland locations” (15)

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Visuals & Sound
-0.79
Visuals -0.51

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Multiplayer
-1.73
Playing together -0.80

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Fairness
-3.76
Monetization -3.15
“don't waste money buying it now, wait two years” (22)

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Tech & Ops
-3.63
Performance -3.94
“riddled with crashes, freezes, stuttering, poor optimization” (167)

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Scores are the average of reviews that mention each category (−5 to +5). Fainter bars were mentioned by fewer reviews; grey means too few to trust. Tap a category ▾ to see what drives it.

Steam review activity

% positive over time
since launch, by week · major update
30%40%50%60%70%80%
Sep 11, 2025Sep 17, 2026
Reviews
per day · 986 reviews, peak 119/day
0100200
Aug 19Sep 16

Steam only gives daily counts for the last 30 days; longer ranges are by week. Months with fewer than 10 reviews are left out of % positive. "Show updates" marks major updates and DLC the developer posted on Steam (since about 2020) — hover a column to see % positive the week before and after.

Review languages

Languages of the 401 reviews we analyzed from the past year — not all Steam reviews.

  • English37%
  • Chinese15%
  • Spanish8%
  • Japanese7%
  • Russian7%
  • German7%
  • Other18%

🔒 Scores broken down by language — how Russian or Chinese players rate each category — are in the paid dashboard.

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