Borderlands 2
Worth it · Shooter · 2012
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $4.99.
- Length
- 30.1h
- Value
- $0.17/hr
- Reviews
- 90% positive
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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.
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What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $3.00, set in June 2024. It has been discounted 107 times in the 14 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today's $4.99 at 75 percent off still sits 66 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
On value it sits in the top 7 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 80 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 ($29.99, scores 53) both come in lower.
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 5 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written September 2025 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 75 percent of the 10,843 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.
It came out 14 years ago and 8.6K were still playing it at the last check.
The drop-off
90% 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
8,551 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
Borderlands 2: The Best in the Series, Jank and All TL;DR Borderlands 2 is still my favorite game in the series. Later entries have smoother gunplay, better movement, and plenty of quality-of-life improvements, but none of them put everything together quite as well. The loot chase is addictive, the Vault Hunters offer genuinely different playstyles, Pandora is packed with memorable content, the DLC is excellent, and...
Summary They just don't make games like this anymore. This is not a perfect game, far from it, but there is a massive amount of content offered that is varied, entertaining, and very replayable. You don't need to create an account (unless you want SHIFT codes), you can play it offline or online, and it rewards you the more you play with permanent stat buffs to all of your characters (which can be toggled, as good...
My favorite Borderlands so far, it's a very good game, I do not think other Borderlands come close to this one, if you liked 1 then you will love this one further.
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 2 scores 80/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/49520/borderlands-2The 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 10, price as of Sep 24.
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