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Borderlands 4

Borderlands 4

Gearbox Software·Released Sep 11, 2025·Single player

Platforms
Xbox Series XSwitch 2PCPS5
Genres
ShooterRPGAdventure
Critic75/100
Across 7 reviews
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See if you have what it takes to go down in history as a legendary Vault Hunter as you search for secret alien treasure, blasting everything in sight.

Reviews

8 reviews
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Eurogamer
Rick Lane·Sep 23, 2025
Critic60/100
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Borderlands 4 brings a more sensible script and a true open world to its cel-shaded gun-show, but these moderate improvements are undermined. Our review.

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Push Square logo
Critic70/100
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An open world was the right move for a Borderlands franchise that's on its back foot. If you can grin and bear through some bad console performance, Borderlands 4 rewards you with a whole lot more looting and shooting. Some small new additions around the edges and a solid slate of bosses and side-quests spice up this fourth numbered entry that's still as brazen and immodest as ever.

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Critic
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While everyone complains about the technical state that Borderlands 4 released in, whether it’s choppy performance or the lack of an FOV slider on consoles, I found myself on the much happier end of the spectrum. Aside from the gruellingly slow start, where I was drowning…

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Game Informer logo
Critic85/100
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Though many of the series’ core elements remain intact, Gearbox has refined and reconfigured them in such ways that Borderlands 4 rises beyond anything the series has accomplished to this point.

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IGN
Travis Northup·Sep 11, 2025
Critic80/100
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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.

Read full review at IGN
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Critic80/100
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Borderlands 4 extracts the essence of a finale shootout and spins it across an entire game, with a staggering amount of guns allowing for pure carnage.

Read full review at GamesRadar+
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