Borderlands 3
Fair · Shooter · 2020
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $5.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 23.4h
- Value
- $0.26/hr
- Reviews
- 81% positive
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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.
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.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $2.99, set in June 2025. 62 discounts in the 7 years on record. They run about 85 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today's $5.99 at 90 percent off still sits 100 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
This sale is doing real work. 44 at list, 59 today.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 25 percent on value. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 61 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Borderlands Game of the Year ($29.99, scores 71) beats it on value, while it beats Borderlands Game of the Year Enhanced ($29.99, scores 53).
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 6 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written February 2026 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 55 percent of the 4,104 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.
It came out 6 years ago and 3.2K were still playing it at the last check.
The drop-off
94% start to 2% 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
3,164 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
-great gameplay - bad story , some parts were fine like Promethea and Eden-6 - the bad story parts are really bad - amazing DLC - great vault hunters - if you play the games for the gameplay this is a great game, if you play for the story then you will despise it
Borderlands 3 probably has the best gameplay in the series so far. I have not played Borderlands 4 yet, but the gunplay, movement, weapon variety, and build crafting here are easily the strongest the series has felt to me. Sliding and mantling make everything flow much better, the weapons are constantly throwing weird new gimmicks at you, and the skill trees give you a lot of room to experiment. The enemy variety is...
I have tried to play this game like three times now, and I just can't. I get like half way through the story then I'm like "meh".
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Borderlands 3 scores 59/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/397540/borderlands-3The BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 12, price as of Sep 24.
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