Borderlands Game of the Year
Worth it · Shooter · 2023
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $29.99. Price from Oct 20.
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.46/hr
- ReviewsA
- 90% of 31,953
- Critics
- 81 players 9 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 12% Shooter
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 20.6h
- To 100%
- 72.6h 3.5x the story
- Finish
- 3% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 80
Price and sales
- Sales
- 54 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $4.99 March 2015
- Sale every
- 42d last March 2021
Players and genre
- Online
- 161 now
- Cheaper than
- 7% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 83% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
82% start to 3% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
March 2015 is where it bottomed out, at $4.99. Across all 54 discounts in the 14 years tracked, the median cut is 75 percent, about 6 weeks apart.
Its score sits in the top 12 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 83 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Borderlands 2 ($1.99, scores 80) beats it on value, while it beats Borderlands 3 ($5.99, scores 59).
More about Borderlands Game of the Year
The press gave it 81; the people who bought it give it 90 percent. A 9-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 3 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 20.6-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. 1 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2025 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 72 percent of the 1,369 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 20.6 hours; clearing it takes 73, which is 3.5 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
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
I've 100% this game on Xbox 360, Xbox One, PS3, and PS4. Now (17 years later) its time to do the PC version (both of em as well).
2 more reviews
Masterpiece that holds up even after all these years, atmosphere unbeatable. Probably played about a whole week worth of Brick counting the enhanced edition as well. -Would do it again/10
Game and stuff to do gaming and stuff, kinda like the games you used to play when you played games and did stuff in the games. Brings gaming and stuff to the table so you can game and stuff in the game.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Get ready for the mind blowing insanity! Play as one of four trigger-happy mercenaries and take out everything that stands in your way! With its addictive action, frantic first-person shooter combat, massive arsenal of weaponry, RPG elements and four-player co-op, Borderlands is a breakthrough experience that challenges all the...
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 8 GB of storage. Windows only.
Cite this score
Borderlands Game of the Year scores 71/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. Price last read Oct 20. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/8980/borderlands-game-of-the-yearReviews 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 4, price as of Oct 20. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.