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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 290

All time 😄 Very Positive 81% of 164,028

“most of the game is pretty good”

How it holds up

−50+5

Gameplay

+1.89

Controls & feel +3.14 · Responsiveness, precision, and how the menus handle

“gunplay is the best in the series” (109)

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Story & World

-2.14

Story -2.58 · Plot, quests, writing, and the ending

“story and writing inferior to Borderlands 2” (157)

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Content Volume

+1.05

Variety -0.20 · Fresh content and situations versus repetition

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Visuals & Sound

+1.72

Visuals +2.81 · Graphics, art style, and animation

“gun design and mechanics are amazing” (26)

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Multiplayer

+2.48

Playing together +2.88 · Fun of playing with friends, teammates, or rivals

“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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Pricing & Fairness

-2.61

Pricing -2.40 · Whether the price, DLC and microtransactions are reasonable, and how much paying gives you an edge

“seasonpass, battlepass, 4 bazillion DLCs” (15)

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Tech & Support

-1.89

Stability -2.67 · Crashes, freezes, save loss, and game-breaking bugs

“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

Mar 2020Sep 2026

Reviews

per day · 286 reviews, peak 15/day

Aug 21Sep 18

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.