Borderlands 4
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ActionAdventureRPGFPSLooter ShooterOpen WorldPvELoot

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Game description

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.

Basic info

DeveloperGearbox Software
Publisher2K
PlatformsWindows
Steam DeckVerified
Release dateSep 11, 2025
Price

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Minimum specs

OSWindows 10 / Windows 11
ProcessorIntel Core i7-9700 / AMD Ryzen 7 2700X
Memory16 GB
GraphicsNVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 / AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT / Intel Arc A580
Storage100 GB
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Review Analysis Score

Based on 407 reviews from the past 1 year

51.3/ 100
Bottom 5%

Steam rating: Mixed (57%)

Metacritic: 81 /100

Review analysis summary (Reviewed Oct 23, 2026)

Great gunplay buried under crashes and stutter sums up the reaction to Borderlands 4, which scores 51.3 across 407 analyzed reviews.

👍 Strengths

38 reviews praise the combat feel, calling the gunplay and movement smooth, responsive and addictive. 35 find it fun, with plenty to do and lots of loot to chase, though several add that this holds only when it runs well. 16 enjoy the story, and some single out a darker plot, a solid main villain and sharper humor. Multiplayer ranks 444th of 642.

👎 Where it falls short

Tech & Support appears in 66% of analyzed reviews and ranks 1390th of 1399. 167 reviews report poor performance, such as stuttering, low frame rates even on high end hardware and weak optimization, and some say an update made it worse. 42 describe frequent crashes and freezes, and a few say crashes cost them their local saves. 22 say it is not worth its full price and advise waiting for a sale, and some object to a weapon locked behind paid DLC. Pricing & Fairness ranks 1200th of 1399, Story & World ranks 1050th of 1096, and Content Volume ranks 1083rd of 1351.

Representative reviews Original reviews ↗

“riddled with crashes, freezes, stuttering, poor optimization” · 167 reviews
“shooting is phenomenal with satisfying weapon feel and addictive combat” · 38 reviews
“fun with lots to do, what you expect from Borderlands” · 35 reviews

How it holds up

−50+5

Controls, difficulty, progression and depth
Mentioned in 55% of reviews · Bottom 40% of the games we've analyzed

Controls & feel +1.46 · Responsiveness, precision, and how the menus handle
Positive “shooting is phenomenal with satisfying weapon feel and addictive combat” · 38 reviews
Negative “mini map removal makes navigation impossible, constantly disoriented and lost” · 12 reviews

Progression 18% · Difficulty 8% · Onboarding 8% · Freedom 26% · Strategy 18%

Plot, characters and the world
Mentioned in 50% of reviews · Bottom 5% of the games we've analyzed

Characters -0.91 · How memorable the characters and their relationships are
Negative “lacks memorable characters compared to previous games” · 2 reviews
Positive “new vault hunters and NPCs are interesting and well-written” · 2 reviews

Story 39% · World 18%

How much there is to do, variety and replay value
Mentioned in 43% of reviews · Bottom 20% of the games we've analyzed

Variety -2.38 · Fresh content and situations versus repetition
Negative “open world padding, forgettable side quests, bland locations” · 15 reviews

Volume 19% · Replayability 5%

Graphics, art style, music and sound
Mentioned in 29% of reviews · Bottom 10% of the games we've analyzed

Visuals +1.14 · Graphics, art style, and animation
Positive “cool cel-shaded graphics and showers of loot” · 5 reviews
Negative “weapon redesign bland and characterless, generic futuristic design” · 3 reviews

Audio 12%

Playing with others, the community and servers
Mentioned in 15% of reviews · Bottom 40% of the games we've analyzed

Playing together +0.83 · Fun of playing with friends, teammates, or rivals
Positive “co-op gameplay is engaging” · 7 reviews
Negative “co-op progression unfairly locked to host only, guest gets nothing after 40 hours” · 1 review

Community 1% · Servers & Connection 4%

Pricing, cheaters, balance and matchmaking
Mentioned in 30% of reviews · Bottom 20% of the games we've analyzed

Pricing -0.50 · Whether the price, DLC and microtransactions are reasonable, and how much paying gives you an edge
Negative “don't waste money buying it now, wait two years” · 22 reviews

Anti-cheat 0% · Balance 16% · Matchmaking 0%

Bugs, performance and developer support
Mentioned in 66% of reviews · Bottom 1% of the games we've analyzed

Performance -1.85 · Frame rate, optimization, and loading times
Negative “riddled with crashes, freezes, stuttering, poor optimization” · 167 reviews

Stability 30% · Developer support 32%

Grey means too few reviews mention it to trust. — means almost no reviews mention it.

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