Borderlands 4 Reviews

Borderlands 4 is ranked in the 89th percentile of games scored on OpenCritic.
Sep 30, 2025

The new characters are fun, the gunplay is as cool as ever, and the additional mechanics add an extra layer. The only fly in the ointment is that the sheer amount of fights do start to get repetitive, but with a crew, Borderlands 4 is about as good as it gets.

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7 / 10.0
Oct 2, 2025

This massive sequel brings a new dose of great action to the series. However, the story itself is uninteresting and drawn out unnecessarily. Navigation and travelling through the environment could also be improved.

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6 / 10.0
Oct 2, 2025

Borderlands 4 is, unfortunately, a big disappointment, which, despite changing the formula, has neglected many important elements. The plot is formulaic and predictable, and while the gameplay is an improvement over its predecessor in many ways, in many cases it is a complete step backwards. I won't even mention the technical state of the game, because it's just sad. Unfortunately, my expectations have not been met.

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8 / 10.0
Sep 30, 2025

Borderlands 4 managed to reintroduce a fresh artistic vision and new ideas to the series, and fortunately, most of these ideas were very good and delivered an enjoyable gameplay experience. These new ideas also did not compromise the core traits that define the series, as the game preserved its legacy of chaotic, over-the-top shooting with an enormous variety of weapons. At the same time, however, Borderlands 4 is also a field of technical issues. These problems naturally weakened the experience, but the overall gameplay was still much more enjoyable than the issues were harmful. And despite all these problems, I found myself coming back to play again every day.

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7.5 / 10.0
Oct 2, 2025

Borderlands 4 is a gorgeous, incredibly well-crafted experience on the gameplay and story fronts. With many innovations in the series, farming and gun rolls. As well as very cool action skills for every character. However, the state the game launched in makes it very hard to recommend to people who are suffering on PC. The console experience feels like the best way to go if you want to play it. But, even then, some of the icon loading, texture streaming problems, and being unsure if the memory leak that plagues the console version is resolved make it an unacceptable launch for such an exceptional game.

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80 / 100
Sep 30, 2025

Borderlands 4 delivers a humor-filled looter-shooter experience with deep character builds, though it is slightly held back by repetitive gameplay loops and uneven enemy reactions.

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Eurogamer
Top Critic
3 / 5
Sep 23, 2025

Borderlands 4 brings a more sensible script and a true open world to its pseudo-cel-shaded gun-show. But these moderate improvements are undermined by frustrating exploration and combat that takes too long to properly shine.

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82 / 100
Sep 18, 2025

Even a terrible UI and choppy performance didn't spoil several dozen hours of numbers-go-up bliss.

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Travis Northup
Top Critic
8 / 10.0
Sep 11, 2025

Borderlands 4 gives the series the massive kick in the pants it has needed, with a fantastic open world and greatly improved combat, even bugs and invisible walls can sometimes throw off that groove.

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8 / 10
Sep 11, 2025

Gearbox Software takes a 'back to basics' approach with Borderlands 4 that ends up being exactly what the series needed.

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TheGamer
Top Critic
Sep 25, 2025

Sixteen years in, this is Gearbox’s cel-shaded shooter series at its best. From a well-calibrated tone, still-satisfying guns, best-in-class traversal, and an inviting open world, Borderlands 4 answers the question I asked when it was announced. How much can the Borderlands series possibly change? Turns out the answer is both not much… and a whole lot.

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Sep 11, 2025

Every time Gearbox made me laugh or grin, I would catch myself wishing for more of that authenticity

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8.5 / 10.0
Sep 11, 2025

It’s simultaneously a poster child for excess and restraint, which sounds paradoxical, but for a series named for existing on the border of seemingly opposed concepts, it feels right at home.

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7 / 10
Sep 11, 2025

To its detriment, Borderlands 4 feels like a direct response to Borderlands 3.

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4 / 5.0
Sep 11, 2025

Does Borderlands 4 rise to the occasion and do the beloved franchise justice or is this just another Borderlands 2 wannabe?

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Tom's Guide
Top Critic
Sep 23, 2025

There are a few things holding Borderlands 4 back from being a must-play for everyone, but for longtime fans of the series, it ticks all the right boxes and makes shooting enemies to get loot as joyous an experience as it ever has been.

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Jay Ku
Top Critic
9 / 10.0
Sep 11, 2025

The sheer diversity of characters, gear, and ways to have fun is never-ending, and the open-world format is a surprisingly welcome addition to this amazing co-op FPS. Borderlands 4 is a leap in the right direction, and I can only hope that this trend continues upwards for the rest of the franchise.

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9 / 10.0
Sep 11, 2025

Borderlands 4 is the redemption the saga needed - Gearbox has listened to the community and fixed everything that needed fixing. It's fresh, crazy, fun, chaotic - everything Borderlands should be and the perfect answer to that saying "two plus two always equals four". They've taken the best parts of Borderlands 2, corrected the mistakes of Borderlands 3, and added new mechanics that work without losing the essence.

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8 / 10
Sep 19, 2025

I really like Borderlands 4. I like it on the story front, gameplay front, mechanical front, and just all of it really. I have every intention of coming back to it and replaying it with the DLC characters in later playthroughs, and while the endgame stuff isn't that fleshed out yet, I have faith that it'll improve as time goes on. Let's just hope everyone else can enjoy it without bugs soon too!

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Hobby Consolas
Top Critic
86 / 100
Sep 11, 2025

Borderlands 4 establishes itself as a well-rounded entry that offers updated and tremendously fun gameplay. A lackluster campaign and a somewhat generic open world prevent it from reaching its full potential, but this is a looter shooter capable of standing alongside the best in the genre.

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