Borderlands 4 Reviews
The Borderlands series has long refined the looter-shooter formula, and Borderlands 4 feels like it has finally reached its theoretical peak. From seamless maps and freer movement to expanded skill trees, every change serves the same purpose: letting players and their friends dive into the endless loop of shooting, looting, and powering up in more satisfying and varied ways.
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Borderlands 4 realises the full potential the series has always had, delivering that unmistakable Borderlands experience but with a ton of modern sensibilities to establish itself not simply as a fun co-op shooter, but as the definitive example of what a fun co-op shooter should be.
Now that we survived the wasteland of Borderlands 4, we can say that our original impression from PAX West 2025 held true. The gameplay is refined and feels like a modern looter shooter due to the quality of life improvements that Borderlands 3 neglected. Overall, Borderlands 4 is a true return to form that Borderlands 2 established and is the actual spiritual successor that Borderlands 3 wishes it could have been.
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.
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.
Review in Slovak | Read full review
Borderlands 4 returns to its glory days while introducing new exciting features. From engaging gameplay to millions of weapons and a huge world to explore, you'll find everything you've come to expect from Borderlands 4. If you're a fan of first-person Looter shooters, Borderlands 4 is one of the best games you can possibly experience.
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Borderlands 4 is easily the best entry since the hallowed Borderlands 2, reclaiming its title as the best looter shooter in the biz. Whether co-op or solo, fans of the series should check it out.
Borderlands 4 is a bold, chaotic open-world reinvention with thrilling combat and inventive loot, held back by technical issues and instability.
If this game ran smoothly under normal circumstances, it would have earned a higher score, but optimization has become the true enemy of what is arguably the most enjoyable Borderlands game in history. If you can somehow manage to play the game efficiently, there's no chance of not having fun. One day, when Borderlands 4 runs properly, it will be etched in history with the letters Eridium.
Review in Turkish | Read full review
Borderlands 4 is the best game in the franchise in many ways, with improved gameplay and a good story, all in a package of changes that truly adds an open world for the first time in its excellence. Despite this, the technical side is a complete mess.
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Borderlands 4 delivers the best story and humor the series has ever seen, easily making it one of my favorite FPS-RPG looters to date. Sadly, Unreal Engine 5 drags the fun down with its usual performance issues
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There's a ton of content packed into this package, and while the dialogue and characters are interesting enough to carry over into a gameplay structure that's starting to show its age, we wonder what this game would have been like if quality had been prioritized over quantity.
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Borderlands 4 sticks to the formula that made the series famous: frantic gunfights, dark humor, and a creative arsenal. Although it retains its classic gameplay and doesn't innovate much, the skill progression and combat remain highly satisfying.
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Borderlands 4 isn't content to simply replicate the formula of its predecessors, but attempts to expand it, enrich it, and make it more modern, dynamic, and playful, presenting itself to fans as the most ambitious and complete* chapter in the saga.
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I thoroughly enjoyed my time with Borderlands 4 and although it doesn't reinvent the series, it provides a formula that fans will appreciate while newcomers will surely be impressed by the frantic co-op online multiplayer zaniness. 🔫
All in all, if you are a fan of the basics of the series, this is very much more of the same with a few tweaks. The music may click with a lot of folks, and perhaps there are some that will relish the sheer amount of items and loadouts that you can wangle, but whilst there are thousand of weapons and a huge open world to explore, I can’t help but feel that this is quantity over quality in some areas.
It feels bad to end the review on a bit of a sour note, as Borderlands 4 is truly an incredible package. Gearbox did its homework, addressed complaints with Borderlands 3, and made significant changes to the core gameplay loops that have all come together to create what is surely going to be considered the new benchmark for the series in Borderlands 4. A mature, brilliantly written story, meaningful exploration, improved loot systems, and endless build variety had me losing hours every evening for over a week without even noticing. It’s a huge shame that, as it stands, Borderlands 4 isn’t as easy a recommendation as it should be due to the technical issues currently plaguing both console and PC players, but I have no doubt that Gearbox will continue to be reactive and get patches issued as soon as they can in order to maintain the good will generally being built up by what is otherwise a stellar release and one of 2025’s best video games.
With all that said and even with the issues I had, did I enjoy my time with Borderlands 4? Yes, definitely. From a gameplay perspective, I think this is easily one of the best in the series. The open world and multiple ways to play the Vault Hunters gives players so many choices with just how they want their game to go. Couple that with the sheer amount of stuff to do and find, it’ll have players glued to the game for hours on end. Plus having crossplay brings the community together even more than before.
Borderlands 4 is a good installment in the series. You'll enjoy a great combat system with a rich arsenal of weapons and choose from a bunch of interesting abilities. However, even though GearBox Software makes the most of its flagship brand's strengths, it fails to learn from its long-standing mistakes. These include repetitive level design and, above all, the title's inferior technical condition, which can spoil every other joyful moment of gameplay.
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