Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel
Fair · Shooter · 2014
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Fair at $3.99, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Aug 2014. Buy it now if you want it.
- Cost per hourS
- $0.22/hr
- Reviews▼
- 79% of 43,377
- Critics
- 75 players 4 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 29% Shooter
Holding it back: Reviews
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Time and effort
- Main story
- 18.1h
- To 100%
- 60.8h 3.4x the story
- Achievements
- 63
Price and sales
- Sales
- 97 on record
- Typical cut
- 70% off
- Steam low
- $3.99 March 2023
- Sale every
- 42d last November 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 257 now
- Recent reviews
- 78% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 3% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 51% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
82% start to 2% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
March 2023 is where it bottomed out, at $3.99. It has been discounted 97 times in the 12 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 70 percent, about 6 weeks apart.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 29 percent. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Borderlands Game of the Year ($29.99, scores 71) beats it on value, while it beats Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep: A Wonderlands One-shot Adventure ($9.99, scores 15).
More about Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written June 2025 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 64 percent of the 2,006 reviews written there were positive, against 79 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 18.1 hours. Doing everything runs 61, 3.4 times as long.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Pros - New gear. Laser guns are added to the arsenal and are the most versatile weapon class in the game thanks to their barrels totally changing their firing patterns, Slag is replaced with the far superior Cryo which immobilises enemies with damage over time and has few enemy types with resistance to it, and you get new mobility options with a brief flying ability that can take you up or slow your descent and a...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel Is the Best Borderlands Game. Fight Me. I genuinely don't understand why this game gets so much hate. Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel is easily one of the best games in the entire franchise, and honestly, I might even go as far as saying it's the BEST one. The low gravity, the oxygen mechanics, the unique characters, the humour, and the absolutely ridiculous weapons make this game such a fun...
It is really a step backwards in the franchise. Do this race. Won't tell you where to go. Die constantly. I'm no gaming virtuoso but this game is unnecessarily hard and repetitive.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Launch into the Borderlands universe and shoot ‘n’ loot your way through a brand new adventure that rockets you onto Pandora’s moon in Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 8500 / ATI Radeon HD 2600, 13 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel scores 57/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/261640/borderlands-the-pre-sequelReviews 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 Nov 5, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.