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Borderlands 4
Developer Gearbox Software
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… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
399 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon) · newest Oct 7, 2026 · last updated Oct 7, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
37
Rotten
101 positive · 175 negative
95% range 31–42%
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| Steam reviews | 101 | 175 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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123 newer reactions are still waiting for a label.
Steam's own rating
Mixed
49,995 of 86,856 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
Mixed reception: praised for gameplay, criticised for performance and story.
Many players praise the gunplay and movement as the best in the series, calling it "buttery smooth" and phenomenal. However, the game is widely criticised for poor performance, with reports of low frame rates and crashes even on high-end hardware. [3][7][8][29]
The story and characters are often described as forgettable or bland, with some saying the game feels embarrassed by its own history. Others note that the writing is less annoying than Borderlands 3 but still boring, and that the open-world design leads to filler content. [21][22][23][33]
Praised gunplay and movement · vault hunter designs · sound design and OST
Criticised performance and optimisation · story and characters · open-world padding · post-launch monetisation
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Reactions
60 of 399 · most liked firstThey decided that selling singular missions as dlcs is a good post-launch model. I am so completely done with this franchise. Randy, time to retire, nobody likes you.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Gearbox are actual geniuses. They made the shader compilation take 2 hours, so you can't refund the game. Edit: Geez, a guy makes one joke and everybody loses their mind! Let me come clean, instead of being a hypocrite. 1. I'll post my PC specs. According to the Steam hardware survey I'm pretty close to average hardware, but maybe that's too "potato" for a game that looks like a cartoon. 2. Shader compilation didn't actually take 2 hours. I used hyperbole to express my frustration. What…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A QUICK UPDATE TO MY REVIEW (Original review written at 25h of playtime, updated after grinding the DLCs, listening to community feedback, and responding to the developer's reply) I feel forced to update this review just to set the record straight. My current playtime speaks for itself, nobody can hit me with the "you didn't play enough" card. When the game dropped, I completely swallowed the hype and bought the most expensive version, the Ultimate Edition with all DLCs included. What a…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Do not buy this game! I played for roughly 552 hours. Linux. Proton. All good. I then got banned from denuvo (CodeFusion) for no obvious reasons. CodeFusion did not react when I tried to reach out multiple times. Steam support could not help. I understand that. 2kgames support quite quickly made clear that they won't help, after I told them multiple times, that CodeFusion did not react. In the end you buy a game for a lot of money. You do nothing wrong and get banned. You…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a genuinely sad day for me as a HUGE Borderlands fan from day one. I wanted to really wanted to love this new installment from Gearbox. I’ve played every Borderlands game over the years, on multiple platforms, including The Handsome Collection on console. Borderlands isn’t just a series to me; it’s my gaming happy place. Borderlands 1 was the very first couch co-op game my fiancée and I ever played together. We sank hundreds of amazing hours into it, laughing and looting. Along…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →How this got the green check-mark of verification on the Steamdeck at 20 frames per second-before-you even get on a mount, I'll never know. Thought Valve oversaw the green-lighting process.. Edit: I just noticed borderlands 2 isn't even fully verified for the deck and that runs on the ps vita. Yet somehow the infamously unstable Borderlands 4.. C'mon Valve. What're we doing? EDIT: A dev responded to my review saying the game is indeed not steamdeck verified chaps. Im... Not sure what the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Leaving a bad review because this game somehow became Steam Deck verified? Absolutely no way to justify that badge. The game is NOT playable on Steam Deck, don't be fooled. 20fps is not worthy of the verified badge. Valve wtf are you doing??
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game feels embarrassed by its own history and desperately tries to cosplay as other, more successful franchises. This is not an evolution of Borderlands lore - it is a strict deviation. Whole arcs, themes, and established rules are simply ignored. The game behaves as if BL1 - 3 were optional reading. Major characters don’t just die or fade out - they do not exist. No mentions. No hints. No consequences. It feels less like a sequel and more like a reboot that forgot to tell you it was…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The gameplay is good. The story and characters are awful and forgettable, although they're less annoying than BL3. Not a bad game, just disappointing. Makes me want to play BL2 again. *UPDATE* $70 for this with 0 dlc is unbelievable.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I learned that suffering fools is never worthwhile. Really perfect that's a key to success, now go spread the word about Clap Trap Aeronautics Academy... After 50 hours with Borderlands 4, I walked away with one overwhelming thought: this game has the best gunplay in the franchise trapped inside one of the most forgettable Borderlands I’ve ever played. Let’s get the positives out of the way first because there are quite a few. The shooting is phenomenal. Every weapon feels satisfying, combat…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →When you go through the story you slowly start to feel something is missing. You can't quite put your finger on it, though slowly you come to realize that a blandless permeates everything. The same enemies, the same envirenmonts, samish guns. The spark is not there, its just a copypasta open world of mindless shooting. No tactics, no interesting gunfights or mechanics. Just aim and press. For sure the open world, molded like a generic Ubisoft game, doesn't fit BL in the slightest. Where are…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not sure why this publisher decided to punish those who bought standard edition. The huge initial price and lack of sale for dlcs while complete game editions are 30% off is something new to this series. And with a launch like this, the clear conclusion is to not buy this series's games day one ever again. Will probably skip the dlc for this altogheter as well, for a good measure.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I did not want to write this but the new update is appalling. You cannot release a new character and then in the same stroke make it so 70% of the game's content isn't replayable. Shared progression. I get it, a lot of people wanted this, but it was not thought through. This is not an issue of "OH no now my character starts at level 5 I cant experience 1-4 again" Thats not an issue, that doesn't logistically matter. What matters is that all of the maps side objectives: The reason you have…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm a longtime Borderlands fan, but I refuse to buy Borderlands 4, even at 50% off, purely on principle. My issue isn't the game itself, it's Randy Pitchford's attitude toward the community that has supported Gearbox for years. The way he responded to fan criticism came across as dismissive, condescending, and, at times, outright insulting. That's not the kind of leadership I want to financially support. Whether or not people agreed with every criticism of BL4 at launch, many of the concerns…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm starting to accept the fact that Borderlands 2 will never have a decent successor and it is so sad.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Gameplay is badly optimized for any hardware thats not brand new. 30-40 fps on an rtx 3080 with dlss is a joke. 8/27/26: Decided to give the game a second try and it runs fairly decent now. Occasional fps drops down to 60 and slightly below occur still, but that's normal for most games. I average around 80 fps now.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The actual gameplay is fun and the writing isn't as bad as expected, but it still runs like ♥♥♥♥ so hold off until it's on a very deep discount. I had maybe 10 or so crashes through the course of the campaign but they weren't nearly as annoying as the frequent stuttering and multi-second freezes
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pitchford’s line about Borderlands 4 being a “premium game for premium users” is a hollow joke considering how utterly ravaged by bugs it is. Like, this thing is broken in many ways that the arrogance about it isn’t even partially earned.
unlabelledView post →Borderlands 4 is such a great game to buy two years later with all the content and patches. Don't waste your money on it now.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i just watched it spend 15 minutes compiling shaders, crash, and then begin compiling shaders again, i think we genuinely do not hate Pitchford enough as a society
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Do you want a Borderlands game that is blander, duller and filled with open world padding? Then BL4 is the game for you. Personally, I think the move to a open world was a mistake. The amount of good content feels like its spread too thin between open world filler and forgettable side quests. The writing is less obnoxious than BL3, true, but now its just really boring. You will often be made to stand around and listen to NPCs who drone on with no way to skip dialogue. I miss the humor and…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It should be illegal to drop a game this unoptimized. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ruined this series for me.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Hey, between you and me - if you do refund Borderlands 4 and "play a different game" please know that Mycopunk is just $15.
unlabelledView post →Game crashes multiple times per game session and image saying the quiet part out loud and stating they plan to release $20 paid content every QUARTER on a full priced game!!!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I cannot recommend this entry into the Borderlands franchise. We've waited far too long (8 months since release) for any *meaningful* changes to the subpar skill trees that have no place at endgame. Whilst I'd love to say these changes have finally come with the April 30th patch (I don't really think they have), the game won't even launch to allow me to test them. Not that it would even really matter since there's nothing to actually test your builds on at endgame yet anyway (reminder that its…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Optimization ruins this game. Makes no sense for a company to label their game as a "premium gaming experience", nobody wants to dump thousands of dollars into a rig so they can play BORDERLANDS. This is also noteably one of the only games that runs like an absolute dumpster fire on a 4060 that I know of. Fix your game instead of expecting people to have to compensate for you're ♥♥♥♥♥♥ excuse for a functioning game Gearbox.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →After 55 hours of gameplay, i loved it, game was great loved the gunplay game was fun story could be better but i still wanted to play each vault hunter, come may 1st the update made the minimum for system requirements an intel core i7, i have an ultra i5, granted its still good not the best, but all my other specs are good, i played the game for 55 hours with literally no issues with graphics or gameplay. Post may 1st update my game literally just doesnt open, not even crashes, i click play, i…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i love the borderlands franchise, but this game is just a virus on your pc... i finished the game last year and haven't played it since, so i wanted to see if it got any better now. Before i even got into the main menu, i had to sit through 2 shader compilation screens, another one in the menu and another one when i hit play., 4 compilation screen before you even get into the game is insane.. but you might say, "well ofcouse, its a optimization to fix the bad performance from the launch",…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →this game couldve been so good. its just so un-optimized. i was maybe getting 40 frames...
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I struggled to get into Borderlands 4 at first. I put somewhere around 10–20 hours into it, found myself getting bored, and eventually set it down for about 10 months. I recently decided to give it another shot, and this time it finally clicked. More importantly, I figured out why I struggled with it so much the first time. I’ve been playing Borderlands since day one and have played through every game in the series. Over the years, I developed a pretty specific way of playing them: enter an…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I will not-so-briefly vent out my frustrations in the newest series of my reviews, because it seems way too convenient to provide myself a moment of relief in doing so. I spent two birthdays with this franchise as two completely different persons. Trust me, BL couldn't possibly have changed enough compared to me. Yet, I absolutely don't see that ''soul'' or whatever you want to call it that once made me care for the franchise. I may never articulate on that idea properly and it won't matter…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →RANDY PITCHFORD'S EPIC WORLD OF LOOT AND AWESOMNESS THE FOURTH is probably the most corporate feeling and nothing burger mainline Borderlands game in the series. I still hear more people complain about 3 than even talk about 4, it's like a game that just came out and died the day of without any sort of attention. If you're interested at all you should wait for a sale because there is absolutely nothing in this game worth $70
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →- Game was fun until story ended - End game is meh - Can't ride around in vehicles with friends due to cringe Destiny "Sparrow" spawning of vehicles - Performance is trash on highest quality systems....cough....RANDY Buy Borderlands 2, pretend 3 doesn't exist, and then wait for this one to go on sale with all the DLC in one package when it actually runs worth a s**t. 3/10
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's 2025. Seamless open world isn't something that we've cared about really.... ever? There's not a single game in history that is held in high regards because it had a breathtaking lack of loading screens. You know why Borderlands 2 and 3 (to a degree) held such high interest over the years? Visual variety and engaging locations to visit. A cozy hubworld in BL3 that you could spend hours in before deciding which of the varied locations you'd test your new build in next. BL3's story pace and…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →!!DO NOT BUY THIS GAME!! Lost more thank 70 euros and 36 hours of my life on this - Played more than 36 hours - Game crashes (on a computer way more powerful than minimum requirements) - After the crash the game deleted all the local saves on its own - The game overwrote steam backup, making it impossible to retieve the saves - Most probably never going to play this again due to the risk of losing even more time (problem also happened to many people online) I'm a fan of the franchise, with…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Purely in terms of gameplay, Gearbox has more or less perfected the Borderlands formula in Borderlands 4. So if you enjoyed previous Borderlands titles, there's no reason why you won't find something to enjoy with this one. Borderlands 4 has it all: showers of loot, cool cel-shaded graphics, blood and guts, now encompassed within their version of the open-world format. If that's all you want from the game, go for it. Unfortunately, that's where the good stuff about Borderlands 4 ends. The…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I have a 9800x3d, 5090, and 96 GB of 6600 ram on a 1440p ultrawide... Even I have been waiting on performance improvements because this game runs like crap. Randy P. must have sent out a memo to not make the game run any better. Clearly his comment saying that this is a "premium game made for premium gamers", means nothing when I cannot get any more premium of a setup yet it still runs like trash. BTW I am fine with DLSS in single player games, but even with it this game looks and runs…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Devs. Stop apologizing and fix the game For those dummies that criticize me for playing only 12 min...that's all I need to know how bad this game runs. Shaders compiled twice before the game even started. I have a 5070ti 16gb vram with 64gb of ram with latest intel i9 285k. Game is full of latency issues and frame rate drops at 1440p 60 fps. I have more than recommended specs so stop defending Gearbox and Randy. I have this game on ps5 pro...recommend buying that version. Will buy once…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've been playing Borderlands for about 15 years. I have thousands of hours across Borderlands 2 & 3 and 100s across each non-mainline entry. But after 500 hours in Borderlands 4 and I still dont know where I stand on it entirely. So I'll break it all down into key peices, and let the story tell itself. :Gameplay & World: Gunplay and exploration is the cleanest the series has felt so far. Adding to the Mantle & Slide introduced in BL3, Glide & Grapple are the new additions. Kairos feels…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →hi everybody! I'm urgently looking for full-time game writing/narrative design work. I'm a 6-year industry pro working with both AAA and indie studios on titles like Borderlands 4, Endoparasitic, and [REDACTED]. I also edit and consult! Updated portfolio is live on my new site: www.nessacannon.com
unlabelledView post →TLDR: Runs like ♥♥♥♥, not a game worthy of "premium" pricing. I completed the whole game and through UVHM5 to form a solid conclusion about my thoughts. #1, the game has serious performance issues, regardless of what Randy wants to believe. Network play is still pretty bad, just like the other games. Desynchronization and missing projectiles is common; even during single player modes at times. Loot falls through floors or gets stuck out of bounds in specific scenarios #2, the story is OK,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's fun, like it's borderlands but it runs like literal ass. It's been 5 months and it STILL runs like ass and they are just dropping dlc's.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Borderlands 4 trailer will debut at The Game Awards
unlabelledView post →It just isn't fun, I don't even know why. BL1 is nostalgic, BL2 is a masterpiece, BL3 is great, but didn't live up to the standard set by 2, and Borderlands 4 is just kinda there. This is a case of an open world game that just feels empty. The guns are all "quirky", but rather than it being in a fun way like they were in 3, they're just annoying to use. I haven't run into any performance issues, other than the game needing to compile shaders every time I fast travel, die, etc. The bosses…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →SO You Wanna Hear a Story about Soulless Corporate Trash? I want to start by saying I have been a Borderlands fan since the very first game released in 2009. I've bought every single game on Xbox, and over the last few years have started playing all over again on PC. With that out of the way, Borderlands 4 is by far, the worst game in the series and you should not buy it, not even on sale. There is so much wrong with this trainwreck that I don't even know where to start. I'm not going to…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've been playing Borderlands since the original game was released in 2009 on xbox (eventually migrated gaming to PC). I've purchased and played every series and DLC. I've put more collective hours into Borderlands games than any other game franchise by several orders of magnitude. My husband gave me a custom oil painting of Gaige, my favorite Vault Hunter, as my wedding present. I'm a huge fan of this franchise. Unfortunately, the decision to remove the mini map from Borderlands 4 has ruined…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Review After 100% Completion - Including Updates 1-2 and Mad Ellie and the Vault of the Damned DLC Recommendation: Recommended What I Liked (Pros): + Movement and gunplay are phenomenal, grapple hooking, gliding, sliding, and chaining it all together feels buttery smooth. It’s easily the best-feeling Borderlands game to date. Even spawning your vehicle and riding through the open world feels awesome, fast, responsive, and reminiscent of Destiny’s Sparrow in the best way. + Open world and…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I just....can't bring myself to care enough to play this game. Its....alright? It feels empty, missing something that even BL3 had. The skills are there, the guns are there, but the fun somehow isn't.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It’s so unfortunate that this gem of a game is drowning in performance issues. Randy says it’s our hardware but even the 50 series are struggling with this game. AAA developers. Give me unreal engine 4 on ultra graphics with steady frames instead of a UE5 powerpoint on low settings. Also AI frame generation is a joke unless you like input delay.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It’s bad enough that that any game on a console does the “pretend mouse cursor in menus” thing, but did Borderlands 4 *have* to make it a tiny dot in the center of a big triangle? I keep instinctively trying to click with the top of the triangle because, y’know, that’s how cursors work.
unlabelledView post →Forget the public backlash over Randy's Randy-like comments. Forget the initial performance issues. This game plays like Gearbox sold the rights to some generic AAA company like Ubisoft. They ditched their entire past, which drew in and kept the previously loyal fanbase they had, to try to reboot it into another generic open world game. This is not a Borderlands game. It is an empty vacuum of 4 bland types of terrain, filled with repeatable garbage that distracts from a very sparse story that…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is by far the most Borderless and Generic game in the franchise. It doesn't feel like a Borderlands game, there are almost no returning characters, the writing is absolutely bland, there is no endgame right now and rerolling a new VH feels like punishment rather than being enjoyable. I really hope the DLC will improve the game, because right now i can't find the motivation to launch the game again.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Putting Borderlands 4 on the shelf, my inventory keeps disappearing and that's a stupid fucking bug to happen in that game.
unlabelledView post →The hardware requirements necessary to run this at an acceptable FPS is beyond imagination. An absolute mess of high end requirements to support a game that looks and feels like it should run on a low-end graphics card.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →You can tell how bad the launch is by how the game is already 20% off barely a month after release
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Been busy no-lifing the heck out of Borderlands 4 with my buds, 100+ hours and we still haven't finished the game! Enjoying a lil' snack break while Cheesy breaks the game using a Kickball and a knife while all three of us break the couch with way too much fast food! Gosh, These burgs are legendary!
unlabelledView post →My experience of ♥♥♥♥ and borderlands torture 4: Compiling shaders Poor game performance with stuttering, putting visuals on low did not help. "UNKNOWN FAILURE TYPE! (Code: 9)" How about second compiling shaders? Teleporting all over the place due to SHiFT™ server lag. Install config mod to get the game to stop stuttering and massively boost framerate to be playable. How about third compiling shaders? Bullet hitreg either do not register or is delayed by anywhere between 0,5 to 2…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Honestly the DLC should be given out for free as an apology for what they did to this game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Boderlands has fallen from it's former glory. An absolute broken abomination of a game. Why in the world did they get rid of side by side comparison of items??????
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Base game this isn't worth the price tag. So much of what made up previous Borderlands titles has been stripped away in this iteration. There is no incentive to replay the game on new characters because of the open world aspect. There is a 6 year time jump from BL3 to BL4 and combined with BL3's story and how bad New Tales was, all proves that the writers for Borderlands are less qualified that monkeys slapping away at type writers. The new free Halloween event is so badly implemented I feel…
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