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Borderlands 3

The original shooter-looter returns, packing bazillions of guns and a mayhem-fueled adventure! Blast through new worlds and enemies as one of four new Vault Hunters.

Developer
Gearbox Software
Publisher
2K
Franchise
Borderlands
Release date
Mar 13, 2020
Store page updated
Jun 24, 2025
Price
−90% $59.99 $5.99 · Steam store ↗

Review Analysis Score

64.4/ 100

Based on 425 reviews from the past 1 year

Steam User Rating
Recent 😄 Very Positive 82% of 289
All time 😄 Very Positive 81% of 164,011
“most of the game is pretty good”

How it holds up

−50+5
Gameplay
+0.59
Controls & feel +3.14
“gunplay is the best in the series” (109)

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Story & World
-1.70
Story -2.58
“story and writing inferior to Borderlands 2” (157)

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Content Volume
+1.05
Variety -0.20

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Visuals & Sound
+1.53
Visuals +2.81
“gun design and mechanics are amazing” (26)

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Multiplayer
+0.44
Playing together +2.88
“great with friends, fun casual co-op experience” (24)
中文本地化做得很好，适合和朋友一起突突突捡装备，也可以自己休闲过剧情。

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Fairness
-2.43
Monetization -2.40
“seasonpass, battlepass, 4 bazillion DLCs” (15)

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Tech & Ops
-2.41
Stability -2.67
“game-breaking bug prevents core gameplay” (18)

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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 month · major update DLC
20%40%60%80%100%
Mar 2020Sep 2026
Reviews
per day · 278 reviews, peak 15/day
01020
Aug 19Sep 16

Steam only gives daily counts for the last 30 days; longer ranges are by month. 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 month before and after.

Review languages

Languages of the 425 reviews we analyzed from the past year — not all Steam reviews.

  • English53%
  • Chinese12%
  • Russian11%
  • Portuguese7%
  • Spanish5%
  • French3%
  • Other10%

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

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