Borderlands 3
Fair · Shooter · 2020
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $5.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Cost per hourS
- $0.26/hr
- Reviews▼
- 81% of 164,488
- Critics
- 81
- Genre rank
- Top 27% Shooter
Holding it back: Reviews, Monetization
Score at full price
Score today
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Time and effort
- Main story
- 23.4h
- To 100%
- 84.5h 3.6x the story
- Achievements
- 81
Price and sales
- Sales
- 64 on record
- Typical cut
- 85% off
- Steam low
- $2.99 June 2025
- Sale every
- 42d last November 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 1,859 now
- Recent reviews
- 82% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 1% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 57% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
94% 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
The lowest price on record is $2.99, set in June 2025. 64 discounts in the 7 years on record, a median of 85 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 27 percent. It is pricier than 99 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 3
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 7 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2026 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 55 percent of the 4,114 reviews written there were positive, against 81 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it. It sells extras on top of the sticker price (cosmetic, time-limited); the score docks it lightly for that.
The main story runs 23.4 hours. Doing everything runs 85, 3.6 times as long.
The rating rests on 164,488 reviews, so it is not going to move much from here.
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
Bought this game thinking I was going to become a legendary Vault Hunter. Instead, I spent 20 minutes shooting a guy with a gun that somehow has a worse aim than I do. "Okay, this time I'll actually use strategy." 5 minutes later: "WHAT IF I JUST SHOOT EVERYTHING?" The guns are ridiculous, the enemies are insane, and the loot addiction is very real. 10/10. Came for the story, stayed for the 47 guns I absolutely did...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Surprisingly, I had a lot of fun with the game. I wasn't a huge fan of BL1 and BL2 - both were kinda mid in my mind. I remember there being a huge hate bandwagon about the 2 main villains on release - and yeah, the dialogue and writing in this game is mostly bad, cringy and unfunny, with a decent amount of gross out "humor" to boot. But the gameplay and gunplay really do carry this game, with visuals (despite the...
Borderlands 3 : A Loot-Shooter With No Story to Loot Borderlands 3 is a game that somehow manages to have more guns than good dialogue, which is genuinely impressive when you consider how much dialogue there is. On paper, Borderlands 3 should be fantastic. You have guns lots of guns. You have ridiculous enemies, colourful environments, explosions, skill trees, and enough loot to make your inventory look like the...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, AMD Radeon HD 7970 or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 2 GB, 75 GB of storage. Windows only.
Cite this score
Borderlands 3 scores 59/100 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/397540/borderlands-3Reviews 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.