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Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel

2K Australia · 2K · 2014-10-13

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ActionRPG

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

Releases: Oct 17, 2014 (PlayStation 3), Mar 27, 2015 (PlayStation 4), May 29, 2020 (Nintendo Switch), Jul 20, 2016 (Android), Mar 24, 2015 (Xbox One), Oct 17, 2014 (Xbox 360)

Launch into the Borderlands universe and shoot ‘n’ loot your way through a brand new adventure that rockets you onto Pandora’s moon in Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel!

Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel is an Action RPG released in 2014, priced at $39.99, with an estimated 2,000,000 to 5,000,000 owners and a Mostly Positive review sentiment (79% of 43,249 reviews).

187
playing now
79%
positive of 43k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
2,000,000–5,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
75/100
critic score (15 outlets, IGDB)
72/100
IGDB user rating (413 ratings)
76
Nexus mods (435k downloads)
74/100
opencritic · fair · 42% recommend · from 53 critics
30h
to beat · rushed 18h · completionist 61h
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$39.99
steam price (US)

187 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 10:00 UTC (census sample)

Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel is a 2014 action role-playing first-person shooter game developed by 2K Australia with assistance from Gearbox Software and published by 2K. It is the third game in the Borderlands series, and is a spin-off set after 2009's Borderlands and before 2012's Borderlands 2. It was released for Linux, OS X, PlayStation 3, Windows, and Xbox 360 on 14 October 2014. Updated ports for Windows, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One were released as part of Borderlands: The Handsome Collection on 24 March 2015.

Trailer

Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel trailer thumbnail

Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel Launch Trailer | PS3

≈400,301 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Cooling
  • · 187 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 690 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~86/week).
  • · Review velocity down 74% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (2,492 reviews).
  • · Top 2% of 27,535 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.1M–2.6M copies

Review-multiple estimate from 43,331 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Fanatical$3.39-92%
GreenManGaming$3.60-91%
Steam$3.99-90%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $2.90 at AllYouPlay (2026-09-07) · bundled 15×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $39.99 · on sale 179 of 243 observed days · $0.49 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
2.2k2.2k20182026Week of 2018-01-01: 120 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 35 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 69 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 89 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 36 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 73 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 69 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 80 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 26 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 87 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 33 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 71 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 66 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 38 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 48 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 592 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 34 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 104 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 33 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 104 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 33 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 107 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 35 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 122 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 39 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 504 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 731 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 133 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 69 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 2,238 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 254 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 1,862 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 173 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 147 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 69 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 132 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 77 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 128 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 54 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 625 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 50 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 429 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 39 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 316 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 41 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 243 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 54 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 380 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 148 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 346 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 88 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 340 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 68 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 288 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 52 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 225 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 43 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 191 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 34 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 132 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 28 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 124 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 26 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 223 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 35 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 200 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 33 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 223 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 46 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 251 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 36 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 182 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 42 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 169 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 26 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 127 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 31 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 189 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 39 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 177 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 40 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 149 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 40 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 155 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 29 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 163 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 34 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 208 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 33 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 179 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 34 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 194 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 28 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 147 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 37 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 119 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 33 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 118 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 119 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 47 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 152 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 33 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 137 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 27 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 121 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 29 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 115 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 109 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 119 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 110 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 26 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 115 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 28 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 134 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 30 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 135 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 32 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 140 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 120 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 26 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 112 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 147 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 29 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 116 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 112 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 27 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 124 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 118 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 99 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 107 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 92 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 122 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 28 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 88 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 72 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 31 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 64 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 92 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 141 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 33 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 128 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 29 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 75 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 105 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 107 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 29 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 134 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 90 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 28 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 121 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 40 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 86 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 159 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 84 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 606 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 133 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 894 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 124 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 97 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 102 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 38 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 77 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 55 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 118 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 39 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 68 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 59 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 67 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 69 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 64 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 89 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 69 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 63 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 79 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 53 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 23 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

5681732026-09-14 20:00 — 415 players2026-09-16 04:00 — 285 players2026-09-17 11:00 — 205 players2026-09-18 19:00 — 398 players2026-09-20 02:00 — 402 players2026-09-21 10:00 — 189 players2026-09-22 18:00 — 436 players2026-09-24 01:00 — 349 players2026-09-25 09:00 — 187 players2026-09-26 16:00 — 435 players2026-09-28 00:00 — 522 players2026-09-29 07:00 — 195 players2026-09-30 15:00 — 328 players2026-10-01 22:00 — 352 players2026-10-03 06:00 — 286 players2026-10-04 14:00 — 448 players2026-10-05 21:00 — 419 players2026-10-07 05:00 — 235 players2026-10-08 12:00 — 225 players2026-10-09 20:00 — 442 players2026-10-11 03:00 — 383 players2026-10-12 11:00 — 215 players2026-10-13 19:00 — 368 players2026-10-14 10:00 — 187 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
24k249Oct 2014Aug 2026Oct 2014 — avg 24,024 · peak 67,244Feb 2015 — avg 2,574 · peak 5,933Jun 2015 — avg 2,923 · peak 8,479Oct 2015 — avg 1,623 · peak 3,454Feb 2016 — avg 1,781 · peak 3,612Jun 2016 — avg 1,131 · peak 2,701Oct 2016 — avg 1,180 · peak 2,767Feb 2017 — avg 1,101 · peak 2,187Jun 2017 — avg 1,373 · peak 3,120Oct 2017 — avg 1,041 · peak 2,238Feb 2018 — avg 1,066 · peak 2,358Jun 2018 — avg 1,029 · peak 2,479Oct 2018 — avg 871 · peak 1,718Feb 2019 — avg 1,385 · peak 3,182Jun 2019 — avg 4,225 · peak 9,580Oct 2019 — avg 1,092 · peak 2,586Feb 2020 — avg 637 · peak 1,136Jun 2020 — avg 709 · peak 1,423Oct 2020 — avg 398 · peak 750Feb 2021 — avg 589 · peak 1,168Jun 2021 — avg 433 · peak 810Oct 2021 — avg 461 · peak 846Feb 2022 — avg 450 · peak 816Jun 2022 — avg 478 · peak 888Oct 2022 — avg 351 · peak 683Feb 2023 — avg 409 · peak 768Jun 2023 — avg 370 · peak 690Oct 2023 — avg 354 · peak 662Feb 2024 — avg 373 · peak 861Jun 2024 — avg 285 · peak 503Oct 2024 — avg 390 · peak 776Feb 2025 — avg 485 · peak 1,029Jun 2025 — avg 479 · peak 940Oct 2025 — avg 415 · peak 857Feb 2026 — avg 280 · peak 551Jun 2026 — avg 249 · peak 490Aug 2026 — avg 295 · peak 561
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Chart history

PositiveNegative
662026-09-222026-10-132026-09-22: 1 new positive2026-09-22: 1 new negative2026-09-23: 6 new positive2026-09-23: 2 new negative2026-09-28: 3 new positive2026-09-28: 4 new negative2026-09-29: 2 new positive2026-10-01: 4 new positive2026-10-01: 2 new negative2026-10-03: 1 new negative2026-10-04: 3 new positive2026-10-05: 2 new positive2026-10-05: 1 new negative2026-10-06: 3 new positive2026-10-06: 2 new negative2026-10-07: 1 new negative2026-10-08: 4 new positive2026-10-10: 1 new negative2026-10-12: 4 new positive2026-10-12: 1 new negative2026-10-13: 3 new positive2026-10-13: 1 new negative
New Steam reviews per day (census review snapshots). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$59.99$2.952015-01-012026-10-142015-01-01 — best price $23.272015-04-30 — best price $43.952015-08-24 — best price $28.132016-01-07 — best price $39.992016-04-07 — best price $12.612016-08-19 — best price $24.002017-02-07 — best price $39.992017-06-04 — best price $35.992017-09-07 — best price $11.992018-01-11 — best price $39.992018-05-17 — best price $9.452018-09-04 — best price $39.992019-01-04 — best price $9.992019-04-25 — best price $39.992019-08-22 — best price $13.192020-01-02 — best price $39.992020-04-13 — best price $9.492020-08-12 — best price $39.992020-11-15 — best price $39.992021-03-02 — best price $39.992021-06-18 — best price $11.992021-10-07 — best price $39.992022-01-04 — best price $37.992022-04-28 — best price $35.692022-08-12 — best price $39.992022-11-16 — best price $10.802023-03-13 — best price $9.992023-07-01 — best price $3.992023-10-06 — best price $35.992024-02-09 — best price $3.382024-05-23 — best price $3.592024-09-13 — best price $39.992025-01-14 — best price $39.992025-05-04 — best price $3.682025-08-21 — best price $3.682025-11-30 — best price $39.992026-04-06 — best price $37.592026-07-16 — best price $4.002026-10-01 — best price $3.992026-10-14 — best price $3.39
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

168882026-05-31 — 131 pageviews2026-06-04 — 91 pageviews2026-06-08 — 103 pageviews2026-06-12 — 103 pageviews2026-06-16 — 88 pageviews2026-06-20 — 97 pageviews2026-06-24 — 108 pageviews2026-06-28 — 142 pageviews2026-07-02 — 110 pageviews2026-07-06 — 129 pageviews2026-07-10 — 100 pageviews2026-07-14 — 118 pageviews2026-07-18 — 132 pageviews2026-07-22 — 126 pageviews2026-07-26 — 117 pageviews2026-07-30 — 121 pageviews2026-08-03 — 132 pageviews2026-08-07 — 124 pageviews2026-08-11 — 108 pageviews2026-08-15 — 131 pageviews2026-08-19 — 95 pageviews2026-08-23 — 119 pageviews2026-08-27 — 108 pageviews2026-08-31 — 136 pageviews2026-09-04 — 122 pageviews2026-09-08 — 137 pageviews2026-09-12 — 126 pageviews2026-09-16 — 160 pageviews2026-09-20 — 136 pageviews2026-09-24 — 106 pageviews2026-09-28 — 123 pageviews2026-10-02 — 125 pageviews2026-10-06 — 119 pageviews2026-10-10 — 116 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Twitch viewers

18402026-09-30 18:34 — 13 viewers2026-10-01 03:34 — 1 viewers2026-10-01 13:34 — 2 viewers2026-10-01 22:34 — 3 viewers2026-10-02 07:34 — 2 viewers2026-10-03 07:34 — 6 viewers2026-10-03 16:34 — 5 viewers2026-10-04 01:34 — 184 viewers2026-10-04 10:34 — 2 viewers2026-10-04 19:34 — 14 viewers2026-10-05 04:34 — 4 viewers2026-10-05 15:34 — 3 viewers2026-10-06 00:34 — 183 viewers2026-10-06 09:34 — 148 viewers2026-10-07 11:34 — 1 viewers2026-10-07 20:34 — 12 viewers2026-10-08 05:34 — 3 viewers2026-10-09 06:34 — 1 viewers2026-10-09 15:34 — 2 viewers2026-10-10 00:34 — 105 viewers2026-10-10 09:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-11 08:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-11 17:34 — 2 viewers2026-10-12 02:34 — 3 viewers2026-10-12 11:34 — 5 viewers2026-10-13 11:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-13 20:34 — 15 viewers2026-10-14 05:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-14 10:34 — 0 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
82.2%
earned "Invaders Must Die"
14.1%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudRemote Play on TVFamily Sharing2 DLC

7 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Russian

Post-launch support: 2 DLC released, first 2015-03-24 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
PS4 (PlayStation)120,8745%64
Steam (Steam)94,6554%63
Xbox One (Xbox)46,6583%63
PS3 (PlayStation)18,3929%64
Xbox 360 (Xbox)18,1904%63
Switch (Nintendo)3780%0

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.

Player tags

FPSRPGLootCo-opFunnySpaceActionComedyShooterAdventure

Census log

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

Recent updates

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Similarity via IGDB.

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