Borderlands 2
Worth it · Shooter · 2012
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $1.99, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Jan 2013.
- Cost per hourS
- $0.07/hr
- ReviewsA
- 90% of 313,091
- Critics
- 89 players 1 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 5% Shooter
Holding it back: DRM
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 30.1h
- To 100%
- 129.9h 4.3x the story
- Achievements
- 75
Price and sales
- Sales
- 109 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $1.99 November 2026
- Sale every
- 42d last November 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 2,338 now
- Recent reviews
- 89% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 16% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 83% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
90% 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
It has been discounted 109 times in the 14 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today's $1.99 at 90 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
Its score sits in the top 5 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 84 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 83 percent. Among the games closest to it, Borderlands Game of the Year ($29.99, scores 71) and Borderlands Game of the Year Enhanced ($2.99, scores 62) both come in lower.
More about Borderlands 2
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 5 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written November 2025 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 75 percent of the 10,841 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
30.1 hours to finish it, 130 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 4.3 times the campaign.
The rating rests on 313,091 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
Borderlands 2: A Love Letter Written in Bullets and Bad Decisions Rating: 10/10 would get my face shot off by a psychotic bandit again Let me start by saying Borderlands 2 is one of my all-time favorites, and I will not be taking criticism at this time. The premise is simple: you land on Pandora, a planet that seems to have been designed by someone who asked "what if everything wanted to kill you, including the...
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About the game
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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 2 scores 80/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/49520/borderlands-2Reviews 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 3, price as of Nov 8. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.