Borderlands 4
Skip · RPG · 2025
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 2, under the fair line, at $69.99.
- Length
- 30.4h
- Value
- $2.30/hr
- Reviews
- 58% positive
Recent reviews trending down: 49% over the last 30 days against 58% all-time.
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Minimum on the Steam store: 16 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 / AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT / Intel Arc A580, 100 GB of storage. Windows only.
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.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
June 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $34.99. Its cuts run 30 percent off as a rule. There have been 8 in the 16 months tracked, about 6 weeks apart.
It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 96 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep: A Wonderlands One-shot Adventure ($9.99, scores 15) beats it on value, while it beats Borderlands 2 VR ($49.99, scores 0).
Critics scored it 81, but players land 23 points lower at 58 percent. The reviews were kinder than the room.
Players rate it 58 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 49 percent. Something recent has soured the room. 10 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2026 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 3,162 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 661 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 25 percent of the 5,318 reviews written there were positive, against 58 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 30.4 hours; clearing it takes 113, which is 3.7 times the campaign.
Deck Verified, so no launch options and no controller remapping before it runs.
The drop-off
84% start to <1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
7,850 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 18:45 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
Cite this score
Borderlands 4 scores 2/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1285190/borderlands-4Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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