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Borderlands 4

Gearbox Software · 2K · 2025-09-11

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ActionAdventureRPG

Franchise: Borderlands · Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative

Releases: TBD (Nintendo Switch 2), Sep 11, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Sep 11, 2025 (PlayStation 5), Sep 11, 2025 (Xbox Series X|S)

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.

58%
positive of 82k reviews
Mixed
steam rating
87/100
critic score (4 outlets, IGDB)
58/100
IGDB user rating (56 ratings)
48h
to beat · rushed 18h · completionist 83h
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$69.99
steam price (US)
Borderlands 4 is a 2025 action role-playing first-person looter shooter game developed by Gearbox Software and published by 2K. It is a sequel to Borderlands 3 (2019) and the fifth mainline entry in the Borderlands series. The game was released for PlayStation 5, Windows, and Xbox Series X/S on September 12, 2025 to generally favorable reviews from critics. A Nintendo Switch 2 release was announced but has been put on an indefinite pause with no future plans. Set six years after the events of the last game, the story follows a new group of Vault Hunters in the ancient planet Kairos, who join its local resistance to find the planet's Vault and overthrow the despotic Timekeeper.

Trailer

Borderlands 4 trailer thumbnail

Borderlands 4 - Official Cinematic Launch Trailer

≈435,489 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Healthy
  • · 2,073 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~259/week).
  • · Review velocity up 95% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (28,003 reviews).
  • · Top 3% of 10,791 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.6M–3.7M copies

Review-multiple estimate from 82,454 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$69.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $29.96 at GameBillet (2026-08-06) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $69.99 · on sale 98 of 150 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
18k18k20252026Week of 2025-09-11: 17,591 positiveWeek of 2025-09-11: 10,412 negativeWeek of 2025-09-18: 5,169 positiveWeek of 2025-09-18: 3,260 negativeWeek of 2025-09-25: 2,793 positiveWeek of 2025-09-25: 2,310 negativeWeek of 2025-10-02: 1,417 positiveWeek of 2025-10-02: 1,148 negativeWeek of 2025-10-09: 814 positiveWeek of 2025-10-09: 774 negativeWeek of 2025-10-16: 648 positiveWeek of 2025-10-16: 659 negativeWeek of 2025-10-23: 450 positiveWeek of 2025-10-23: 540 negativeWeek of 2025-10-30: 276 positiveWeek of 2025-10-30: 294 negativeWeek of 2025-11-06: 200 positiveWeek of 2025-11-06: 232 negativeWeek of 2025-11-13: 171 positiveWeek of 2025-11-13: 208 negativeWeek of 2025-11-20: 700 positiveWeek of 2025-11-20: 229 negativeWeek of 2025-11-27: 597 positiveWeek of 2025-11-27: 179 negativeWeek of 2025-12-04: 120 positiveWeek of 2025-12-04: 120 negativeWeek of 2025-12-11: 111 positiveWeek of 2025-12-11: 129 negativeWeek of 2025-12-18: 116 positiveWeek of 2025-12-18: 116 negativeWeek of 2025-12-25: 154 positiveWeek of 2025-12-25: 112 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 118 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 116 negativeWeek of 2026-01-08: 94 positiveWeek of 2026-01-08: 98 negativeWeek of 2026-01-15: 78 positiveWeek of 2026-01-15: 92 negativeWeek of 2026-01-22: 66 positiveWeek of 2026-01-22: 91 negativeWeek of 2026-01-29: 65 positiveWeek of 2026-01-29: 106 negativeWeek of 2026-02-05: 91 positiveWeek of 2026-02-05: 128 negativeWeek of 2026-02-12: 89 positiveWeek of 2026-02-12: 99 negativeWeek of 2026-02-19: 110 positiveWeek of 2026-02-19: 94 negativeWeek of 2026-02-26: 108 positiveWeek of 2026-02-26: 171 negativeWeek of 2026-03-05: 71 positiveWeek of 2026-03-05: 84 negativeWeek of 2026-03-12: 74 positiveWeek of 2026-03-12: 65 negativeWeek of 2026-03-19: 99 positiveWeek of 2026-03-19: 88 negativeWeek of 2026-03-26: 168 positiveWeek of 2026-03-26: 282 negativeWeek of 2026-04-02: 122 positiveWeek of 2026-04-02: 152 negativeWeek of 2026-04-09: 90 positiveWeek of 2026-04-09: 104 negativeWeek of 2026-04-16: 56 positiveWeek of 2026-04-16: 77 negativeWeek of 2026-04-23: 56 positiveWeek of 2026-04-23: 57 negativeWeek of 2026-04-30: 49 positiveWeek of 2026-04-30: 74 negativeWeek of 2026-05-07: 39 positiveWeek of 2026-05-07: 64 negativeWeek of 2026-05-14: 65 positiveWeek of 2026-05-14: 74 negativeWeek of 2026-05-21: 90 positiveWeek of 2026-05-21: 93 negativeWeek of 2026-05-28: 84 positiveWeek of 2026-05-28: 103 negativeWeek of 2026-06-04: 50 positiveWeek of 2026-06-04: 73 negativeWeek of 2026-06-11: 45 positiveWeek of 2026-06-11: 47 negativeWeek of 2026-06-18: 53 positiveWeek of 2026-06-18: 42 negativeWeek of 2026-06-25: 145 positiveWeek of 2026-06-25: 177 negativeWeek of 2026-07-02: 202 positiveWeek of 2026-07-02: 198 negativeWeek of 2026-07-09: 176 positiveWeek of 2026-07-09: 153 negativeWeek of 2026-07-16: 135 positiveWeek of 2026-07-16: 138 negativeWeek of 2026-07-23: 118 positiveWeek of 2026-07-23: 88 negativeWeek of 2026-07-30: 115 positiveWeek of 2026-07-30: 126 negativeWeek of 2026-08-06: 103 positiveWeek of 2026-08-06: 104 negativeWeek of 2026-08-13: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-08-13: 2 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$69.99$29.962025-06-162026-08-172025-06-16 — best price $69.992025-06-23 — best price $69.992025-09-03 — best price $63.432025-09-14 — best price $69.992025-10-08 — best price $69.992025-10-13 — best price $47.352025-10-18 — best price $49.992025-10-25 — best price $49.992025-11-04 — best price $59.192025-11-13 — best price $48.712025-11-24 — best price $52.492025-12-04 — best price $61.592025-12-18 — best price $48.132026-01-08 — best price $55.952026-02-06 — best price $48.132026-02-17 — best price $42.602026-02-26 — best price $69.992026-03-18 — best price $43.112026-03-26 — best price $69.992026-04-03 — best price $36.112026-04-11 — best price $58.792026-04-24 — best price $62.992026-05-11 — best price $39.902026-05-21 — best price $36.352026-05-29 — best price $36.292026-06-11 — best price $36.992026-06-24 — best price $37.792026-07-09 — best price $34.992026-07-14 — best price $69.992026-07-23 — best price $30.792026-08-03 — best price $30.092026-08-09 — best price $35.002026-08-17 — best price $69.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

6043422026-05-28 — 420 pageviews2026-05-31 — 445 pageviews2026-06-03 — 409 pageviews2026-06-06 — 427 pageviews2026-06-09 — 449 pageviews2026-06-12 — 376 pageviews2026-06-15 — 385 pageviews2026-06-18 — 466 pageviews2026-06-21 — 604 pageviews2026-06-24 — 398 pageviews2026-06-27 — 530 pageviews2026-06-30 — 492 pageviews2026-07-03 — 521 pageviews2026-07-06 — 507 pageviews2026-07-09 — 444 pageviews2026-07-12 — 530 pageviews2026-07-15 — 433 pageviews2026-07-18 — 468 pageviews2026-07-21 — 424 pageviews2026-07-24 — 408 pageviews2026-07-27 — 424 pageviews2026-07-30 — 377 pageviews2026-08-02 — 452 pageviews2026-08-05 — 446 pageviews2026-08-08 — 387 pageviews2026-08-11 — 491 pageviews2026-08-14 — 371 pageviews2026-08-17 — 403 pageviews2026-08-20 — 476 pageviews2026-08-23 — 431 pageviews2026-08-25 — 402 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
83.6%
earned "Crimson Rising"
5.8%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opOnline Co-opCross-Platform MultiplayerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsAdjustable Text SizeCamera ComfortColor Alternatives11 DLC

13 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Thai, Traditional Chinese…

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)22,7460%63
PS5 (PlayStation)20,4181%53
Xbox Series (Xbox)10,9870%52

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Recent updates

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