
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.
Most likely between $64.9M and $183.8M. How we estimate →
Checked against 8 developer-reported games
| Store | Price | Score | Revenue · chart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam | $69.99 | 59% | approximately $108.1M |
| PlayStation | $129.99 | 77% | — |
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Cheapest copy: ≈ $44.39 on Steam · China (−37%). Compare 15 prices in 14 markets →
Reviews
Themes across 3080 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
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Reviews
Starting the game for the first time looked like this: 19 minutes of compiling shaders. 4 times compiling shaders in total. 2 forced restarts. 1 crash. The tutorial and intro section took 40 minutes to get through, before actually getting to the open world section, so an hour of total "playtime" before the game even started. It ran at a not-so-smooth 53 fps at the lowest settings with horrible frame times making everything feel horrible and look horrible and the frame gen could not save this. What I got to experience of the game is a dumb modern joke showering game that felt clunky and not like Borderlands at all. This game has totally lost itself and the optimization is non existing. It's such a shame to see Gearslop being this neglectful and greedy. PLEASE SAVE YOUR MONEY and don't support this slop.
This game is better than Borderlands 3 in every single way. The gunplay, the story, ... everything. It's not that high of a bar, but still. Where it falls apart is in performance and stability. I would pick 4 over 3 every single day, but I have to admit 4 is barely playable. The outlines of everything flicker constantly, assets take way too long to load in even on an SSD and LoD stays on the lowest setting for AGES when you get close and I'm not sure whether I should still cause the stuttering "stuttering", because some time it takes so long to resolve it's more like "freezing". Exceeding 60fps without DLSS is basically impossible without dropping to 1080p. Steam SAYS it's Deck Verified, but that's a lie. Not only is performance horrendous (25fps max, not clean), but Gearbox in its infinite wisdom thought it would be a good idea to REMOVE ALL GRAPHICS SETTINGS from the menu for Deck users. I assume they thought Deck users craved the limitations of console gaming (a baffling assumption), but instead of simplifying the experience, they guaranteed the only way for Deck users to get a remotely playable experience was by going into desktop mode and messing with the game files to mod it into a playable state, or trick the game into thinking it's not running on a Steam Deck through launch options to reveal the options menu again. That is the opposite of simplifying anything. It is such a bad decision I'm wondering under my tinfoil hat whether Randy made it intentionally terrible just to sabotage the game on Deck just because he hates Valve. It's so bad on paper, so terrible in practice and so universally unpopular in the community, it's hard not to assume malice at this point. ...but again, the game is actually good under that. Some bossfights are the best the series has ever seen. It's such a shame it's in such a terrible technical state to this day, because I probably would recommend it otherwise.
I´m having loads of fun with this game. But man that game is buggy, quest don´t trigger correctly, bosses are missing during the missions, items you are supposed to collect or shot don´t spawn. Until now those bugs could be fixed by restarting the game. But restarting the game every hour gets anoying real quick. Fix your f..ing game!!!
A huge disappointment. I genuinely like the Borderlands series — the first game, the second, and even the third. I deliberately waited before buying Borderlands 4 to give the developers time to fix the launch issues, but even now the loading times on higher graphics settings are painfully slow. And people complain about loading screens in Bethesda games... The open-world design actively hurts the series. Everything feels shallow, weightless, and repetitive, and the game becomes boring surprisingly quickly. Until now, I bought every new Borderlands game without a second thought. After this, if there is another sequel, buying it will no longer be an automatic decision. I rarely write reviews, but this was disappointing enough that I felt I had to.
please optimize it or somthin
Pros: fun fights (when you can find them), reduced legendary drop inflation compared to 3 Cons: NPCs who won't shut up and get to the point, rampant girl-bossery paired with universally pathetic male NPCs, overt political messaging, empty open-world lacking the density of activity in 2 and 3, cringy writing. Not recommended at even half price.
See you in 5 years with better PC to run this unoptimized mess at -90% price. If you cared at least a bit you'd get Very Positive game easily. Nobody cares about Lumen shi7 in cartoonish game.
5 hours of grind for a specific weapon with a half decent roll. 10 hours for a specific firmware per piece, another 20 hours for a good weapon roll because you don't realize that every aspect of the weapon has RNG even the base damage. Another 15 hours just to get a jakobs roll on it. 8 hours for a repkit of your liking. 15 hours to plow through a dlc just to get one weapon from the final boss. 6 hours to get a shield with amp. My friend: spends 2 hours leveling C4SH from 50 to 60, spends maybe 20 minutes getting parts and then one shots a boss with 10 million HP But yeah lets nerf vex every patch. 2k really deserves all the hate they get. Forgot to mention how streamers have 2 fully flushed out builds a week all with exact perfect rolls. Every single streamer clickbaits and shows off how their cheated build kills bosses
I don't like it
My playtime didn't even last two steps after laggy first cutscene. Played around 31 minutes? Nope. Most of that was Shader Compiling. I love Borderlands, but seriously? This isn't even a game, more of a slide show.