Borderlands Game of the Year Enhanced
Fair · Shooter · 2023
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $29.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 20.5h
- Value
- $1.46/hr
- Reviews
- 81% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Geforce GTX 660, Radeon HD 6970, 25 GB of storage. Windows only.
Discover the original co-op shooter-looter, crammed with new enhancements! As one of 4 trigger-happy mercenaries with RPG progression, equip bazillions of guns to take on the desert planet Pandora.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $2.99. That was December 2024. 57 discounts in the 7 years on record. They run about 67 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 15 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 32 percent on value. It is pricier than 88 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: The Pre-Sequel ($39.99, scores 45).
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 September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 60 percent of the 2,098 reviews written there were positive, against 81 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.
20.5 hours to finish it, 73 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.6 times the campaign.
Still 620 concurrent players, 3 years in.
The drop-off
80% start to 3% 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
620 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
Well. It just doesnt work. I spent about 2 hours troubleshooting, trying to rename files, checking integrity, and other stuff. Game crashes before the first cinematic ends. Same spot, every single time. Even if i fix it, it wont be gearbox achievement, so negative review is the only one it deserves. Doesnt matter how much better than original game it is, it just doesnt work. I have 25 hours in the game, i dont...
See this review isn't about how the first borderlands is as a game. I have very low opinions of the first game in series anyways as it is really dated and i just don't enjoy it. But hey it might be your cup of tea who knows. However this Game of the year "Enhanced" edition if the biggest pile of dog s**t I have ever played. If you want to put your self through the pain that is playing the first borderlands just go...
I had tons of fun but after I beat the game and started playing again the game kept crashing for some reason
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 Game of the Year Enhanced scores 53/100 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/729040/borderlands-game-of-the-year-enhancedThe 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 14, price as of Sep 24.
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