Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel
Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel
Game
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Borderlands 3
Developer Gearbox Software
Borderlands 3 is a 2019 action role-playing first-person shooter video game developed by Gearbox Software and published by 2K. It is a sequel to 2012's Borderlands 2, and the fourth entry in the main Borderlands series. Borderlands 3 was released on 13 September 2019 for PlayStation 4, Windows, and Xbox One, and released for macOS on 30 October 2019. A Stadia port was released on 17 December 2019. Versions for the… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
531 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Lemmy, Mastodon) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
74
Fresh
282 positive · 97 negative
95% range 70–79%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 282 | 97 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 26 | 22 | 83 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 2 | 10 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 1 | 8 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
62,302 of 77,249 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
73% recommend · 186 yes, 70 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 256 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Very Positive (133,152 of 164,272 positive).
Players widely praise the gameplay and gun feel as the best in the series. [1][2][3] Many reviewers criticize the story, dialogue, and antagonists as weak or cringeworthy. [1][4][5] Some players note that bugs and unskippable dialogue hurt the experience. [6][7][8]
Liked
Representative posts
- [14]
If you like the gameplay of Borderlands 2, you will like this game. If you like the story and writing of Borderlands 2, you will hate this game.
- [1]
The gun play is by far the best in the series. The story is by far the worst in the series.
- [2]
Borderlands 3 is living proof of how a game can have great gameplay, but still be bad overall. The first thing you'll immediately notice when you start playing is how buttery smooth the gameplay is (this is especially true for those coming from Borderlands 2). Gone are the floaty/stiff gunplay and movement from the previous games, which were instead replaced by controls that immediately click. Everything feels …
- [4]
TLDR: Great gunplay and deep endgame builds, but weak story, cringe villains, bugs, and a poor ending drag it down. Fun to play, yet lacks BL2’s magic. PROS: ➕Graphics ➕Gun gameplay ➕Endgame options/builds ➕Weapon manufacturer quests/rewards mail is a nice touch NEUTRALS: 🔹Good humor, but not as good as BL2 🔹Many builds available per character, but most of them use the same handful of gear CONS: ➖Terrible, cringy, …
- [3]
Great Gameplay, Terrible story. Play for the smooth ass gameplay, dont pay attention to anything but the DLCs.
Summarised from 34 of the 379 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 11, 2026. How summaries are made
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
Players who liked Borderlands 3 talk about gameplay and gunplay are smooth and refined; those who didn't talk about story and writing are widely considered the worst in the series. Which matters more to you?
Critics, per Wikipedia
The PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Windows versions of Borderlands 3 received "generally favorable reviews", while the PlayStation 5 version received “universal acclaim” (albeit with a much smaller number of reviews), according to review aggregator website Metacritic. GameSpot gave Borderlands 3 a positive review, noting its preservation of the franchise's hallmarks (including weapon variety, a "personable" cast, and "juvenile humor and ludicrous jokes"), refinements to the skill system and player movement, and that its storyline "satisfyingly wraps up the arcs of characters that fans have been following for 10 years". However, it was felt that the flow of Borderlands 3 was still disrupted by…
From the “Reception” section of Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Critic context only — not part of the audience score.
Reactions
60 of 531 · most liked firstIntroduce yourself with 4 video games. D2 postin (duh) Titanfall 3 truther Borderlands 3 defender Cyberpunk 2077 propagandist* *: play this game OR ELSE
neutral · AI labelView post →If you like the gameplay of Borderlands 2, you will like this game. If you like the story and writing of Borderlands 2, you will hate this game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Gameplay might be an improvement but... story is just straight up fan fiction, 100% cringe. Some genuine asinine fangirl must've fell in love with Vaughn from Tales from the Borderlands and thought how she could've further the story of this franchise with the cringey humor of Vaughn of which was written deliberately to be made fun of and cringed at.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →There's probably a good game here if you're willing to stare blankly at the screen every time the game goes into an UNSKIPPABLE, several minutes-long dialogue dump.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Decided to play through Borderlands 3. Observations: This might be the first game I've ever played that made me feel like I didn't exist in the story, except as a tool to move the story forward. Soon as a cutscene happens, the player ceases to exist, never seen or talked about at all.
negative · AI labelView post →The gun play is by far the best in the series. The story is by far the worst in the series.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Coming Soon to Game Pass news.xbox.com/en-us/2025/0... Standard: -Borderlands 3 Ultimate Edition (4/3) -All You Need is Help (4/3) -Still Wakes the Deep (4/3) -Wargroove 2 (4/3) -Diablo III: Reaper of Souls – Ultimate Evil Edition (4/8)
neutral · AI labelView post →好游戏，但我不推荐Take-Two Interactive旗下任何一款游戏。 Good game but I do not recommend any game published by Take-Two Interactive. 2025年2月28日，Take-Two更新了旗下所有游戏的EULA。2025年6月。 On February 28, 2025, Take-Two updated its EULA for all titles. 新协议条款包括：收集设备标识符、IP地址、精准地理位置、支付信息（含信用卡/借记卡号）、网站和应用浏览记录、账户凭证，并获取系统根目录访问权限；美国及澳大利亚、瑞士、英国、欧洲经济区以外地区的用户须放弃集体诉讼和陪审团审判权利，一切争议通过有约束力的个人仲裁解决；禁止使用修改器、MOD、漏洞利用，禁止使用VPN、代理服务器、虚拟机伪装位置或居住地。协议适用于Take-Two旗下所有游戏。 The updated terms include: collection of device identifiers, IP addresses,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Most of this game it pretty good, but there is an extremely game breaking bug that prevents me from shooting Ava in the face.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →GE-Proton11-9 Released. Patch notes in spoiler ::: spoiler spoiler # Hotfix release: # GE-Proton11-9 ## Video Playback - Added a fix for Crimson Desert getting stuck after selecting Play or starting a new game due to looping menu-video playback. Affects both Wine-Wayland and XWayland. ## Rendering and HDR - Added automatic HDR detection for DX11/DXVK and DX12/VKD3D-Proton with Wine-Wayland or Gamescope. - `PROTON_ENABLE_HDR=1` and `PROTON_USE_HDR=1` are no longer required.…
neutral · AI labelView post →gameplay ok story writing. ♥♥♥♥ sake. todler level writing
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The story is bad... but the gameplay is the best in the series. The story ruins the game and makes the game borderline unplayable. So if you dont like looter shooters dont play the game as the story is not worth it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Borderlands 3 is like buying yourself a delicious cake with the exact type of amazingly fluffy, homemade cake mix you've been craving for weeks but you bite into it to find it's glazed in really, really gross icing. I cannot stress how good the actual cake is but you should just be aware that you'll have to either stomach the icing or shave it off. BL3 has such an amazing diversity in weapons and gear and it is visually breathtaking at times but the story and dialogue (ESPECIALLY THE…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Borderlands 3 isn't funny but as someone who plays, at some point or another, every game that tries to be 'funny' it's in the bottom half but only barely like Agents of Mayhem and Saint's Row the Saint's Row are both less funny than Borderlands 3
negative · AI labelView post →The following review is incomplete, but entirely relevant: The good: Mechanics are improved and refined over the previous entries in the Borderlands franchise. The bad: The characters, particularly the main antagonists, are unimaginably awful. This game is overloaded with voice acting and most of it unlistenable. The ugly: My game is currently softlocked because of a bug that has existed since at least 2020. I am stuck on Mount Maraboshi in the Legend of McSmugger DLC mission. I cannot…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Personally, this is were the saga dies for me. Gameplay wise this one is the best, guns feel amazing and although I still think Vault Hunters from TPS are still the best bunch, this ones are fun and varied (even if still more than half the skills are just percentage boosts). But everything else goes from meh to terrible. The story should work, the Vault Hunters will travel to different planets hunting Vaults and facing a deadly cult... you say it and it sounds cool, but the excecution is the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A game that makes me really feel like I'm wasting my time. The appallingly slow movement and simplistic builds with reddit storytelling makes for such a uniquely bad experience that I question what I ever saw in the series at all. At least I saved money on the sequels!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Borderlands 3 is living proof of how a game can have great gameplay, but still be bad overall. The first thing you'll immediately notice when you start playing is how buttery smooth the gameplay is (this is especially true for those coming from Borderlands 2). Gone are the floaty/stiff gunplay and movement from the previous games, which were instead replaced by controls that immediately click. Everything feels better, from just running from point A to point B, to moving around during combat,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Whenever someone says that story doesn't matter, or that you shouldn't care about story if the game plays okay, Borderlands 3 and Bayo 3 immediately come to mind as games that would be far more beloved if they simply had no story at all.
negative · AI labelView post →Amazing guns. Terrible everything else. Gearbox please hire new writers.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The gameplay is really good, but the story is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ awful, and that's like 70% of the fun on a borderlands game
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →How long will Borderlands 3 keep me from Tales of Graces Remastered, a remaster of a game I thought was just alright when I initially played it and then Zestiria and Arise happened I learned how the power scaling worked so now it calls me like a Siren
neutral · AI labelView post →i gotta ignore what gearbox is doing and ignore the wack ass story and dialogue. i kinda love the way the guns feel in this game. still gets mogged by borderlands 2 like CRAAAZY and im not buying borderlands 4
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game has easily the best gunplay in the franchise The issue is that you spend more time standing listening to the unskipable unnecessarily long vomit-inducing beyond terrible dialogue than shooting
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The writing lets itself down but the gameplay is superb.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Unfunny jokes Mediocre game, shadow of its previous entries Also weird ass CEO, hard pass.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →-great gameplay - bad story , some parts were fine like Promethea and Eden-6 - the bad story parts are really bad - amazing DLC - great vault hunters - if you play the games for the gameplay this is a great game, if you play for the story then you will despise it
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Today we're comparing Borderlands 4 to Borderlands 3. Why does the new game run so much worse? www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIpP...
neutral · AI labelView post →My favorite character from Borderlands 3 and the character she flirts with. Honestly I've been wanting to draw this since the game first came out and I saw their interactions.
neutral · AI labelView post →Randy pitchford has singlehandedly ruined this franchise and only a video of him setting himself on fire will suffice as an apology. I cannot stress it enough how much i absolutely despise everything about this game
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →So, after years of starting it, giving up, and repeat. I am finally pushing through Borderlands 3... and I like it? The main antagonists are HORRIBLE and there hasn't been one funny joke, but the gunplay, world and atmosphere are great! The game feels like it was made for the Xbox 360/PS3 era lol
neutral · AI labelView post →Welcome to the maddening, non-stop, OCD triggering, obsessive looting Hell you loved in Borderlands 2! Here in the third instalment you'll find exactly what your greedy mind is looking for, more looting Hell! Serve with many stale jokes aimed to a 12 yo audience and to a plot as thick as wrapping tissue. And yet, the game is fun . I'm not really sure why, possibly the amount of crazy weapons, the characters we learned to love, or the little nice quests you can find well hidden somewhere (Baby…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →this game is absolutely peak when you dont have an annoying moron in your ear telling you it sucks. ive beaten this entire game including mayhem 10 and all the dlcs on epic games. it's incredible and the replayability is up there alongside elden ring for me. better than BL2 for me.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →TLDR: Great gunplay and deep endgame builds, but weak story, cringe villains, bugs, and a poor ending drag it down. Fun to play, yet lacks BL2’s magic. PROS: ➕Graphics ➕Gun gameplay ➕Endgame options/builds ➕Weapon manufacturer quests/rewards mail is a nice touch NEUTRALS: 🔹Good humor, but not as good as BL2 🔹Many builds available per character, but most of them use the same handful of gear CONS: ➖Terrible, cringy, “Influencer” antagonists, especially after BL2’s Jack ➖Can’t swap…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Hi bluesky! I'm Heather. I'm a Lead UIX Designer in games currently assisting Psyonix on Rocket League. Previously I was at Gearbox where I shipped Borderlands 3 and Wonderlands. Looking for all those beautiful game dev faces again. 🥺
neutral · AI labelView post →Graphics ( + ) Music ( + ) Weapons ( + ) Gunplay ( + ) Vault Hunters/skills ( + ) Story ( - ) Ava ( -, -, - ) Krieg ♥︎ Maya
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Gunplay is great, really enjoyable and fun. That's it. So if all you care about is the gameplay and nothing else then this is a game for you. If you're more into the story though... It is absolute trash, the true "monkeys with typewriters" kind of deal lmao where the people coming up with the plot really didn't know what they were doing. My honest reaction to the end bossfight and cutscene was a very confused "what?" which I don't think is the reaction you expect when you're done playing lol…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Well, I gave Borderlands 2 another chance on this Krieg playthrough, but I'm just not vibing with it. Love this game, but I just prefer playing Borderlands 3. So back we go with some new mods to play with starting tomorrow! #Borderlands Here's a taste:
positive · AI labelView post →Everything you've heard about this games story is unfortunately true, this game's story is a complete disgrace to the borderlands series. Every single "joke" and piece of dialogue feels meticulously long and dragged out to force you to suffer for as long as possible because nothing can be short and sweet anymore, every new character (except for one but they kill off 20 minutes later to show off their boring bland overpowered villain character) they introduced is so unsufferable it makes you…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The DLC plots were good, but I swear, all I remember out of the core game of Borderlands 3 was two very popular characters dying for the shock value, and a woman making monkey sex noises for literally three minutes straight for a defense section.
negative · AI labelView post →Been having a blast with my Borderlands 3 replay on my ROG Xbox Ally X 🥰 Super chill playthrough, where I'm not stressed about beating it before the next game or anything, just taking it at my own pace and really reliving this awesome experience that I had at launch over SIX YEARS AGO 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
positive · AI labelView post →#CitizenScience embedded into Borderlands 3, a popular video game. Here, it was used to crowdsource the alignment of 1M 16S rRNA sequences from human microbiome studies. The resulting multiple sequence alignments are better than state-of-the-art computational methods. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
neutral · AI labelView post →GE-Proton11-9 Released. Patch notes in spoiler ::: spoiler spoiler # Hotfix release: # GE-Proton11-9 ## Video Playback - Added a fix for Crimson Desert getting stuck after selecting Play or starting a new game due to looping menu-video playback. Affects both Wine-Wayland and XWayland. ## Rendering and HDR - Added automatic HDR detection for DX11/DXVK and DX12/VKD3D-Proton with Wine-Wayland or Gamescope. - `PROTON_ENABLE_HDR=1` and `PROTON_USE_HDR=1` are no longer required.…
neutral · AI labelView post →Man finally actually finished Borderlands 3 with some friends and that's a good ass video game very down for borderlands 4 despite also wanting to crush Randy pitchforks skull
positive · AI labelView post →Gameplay is great, story feels like it was written by 15 year olds. The story itself feels like juvenile humor and it’s really hard to give a ♥♥♥♥ about. If you’re mainly interested in the game play it’s worth a try but the story will probably not engage you. I honestly wish there was a neutral stance on "Do you recommend this game?" instead of a Yes or No.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Linux, and Borderlands, and downloads... oh my!. I'm not really a gamer, so I'm just curious. I bought Borderlands 4 a few days ago and have been playing it on my Linux desktop every day since then, and every day I run it, it downloads another 2GB patch. Every. Day. I have to make sure I don't start it when anyone else wants to use the WAN, and I have to start it a half-hour before I want to play, and I'm just curious if this is normal? Is it Linux? Is it Borderlands? Is it Steam? I've read…
neutral · AI labelView post →The writing makes me want a lobotomy. It takes pure skill to write something so unbearably annoying. I genuinely don't know if Claptrap being the least annoying character is funny in the most ironic context or if it's downright depressing
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I already ranted about this in another thread, but I do not think anyone would mind if Borderlands 4 looked visually identical to Borderlands 3. That game looks good, even today, yet now we have a weird sequel that runs like trash and has so many rendering features that it stops being Borderlands.
positive · AI labelView post →It's interesting how super fans get to define the conversation surrounding a game years after launch. Borderlands 3 was relatively well received. IGN gave it a 9 and had positive things to say about its tone and characters. But now every perspective goes out the window in favor of the narrative
neutral · AI labelView post →Shades of Mattrick here. "We have a game for people who can't afford Borderlands 4. It's called Borderlands 3." Randy's not wrong (at least about point A), but his bedside manner is atrocious, LOL. He should've left this one in Drafts.
neutral · AI labelView post →some of the best FPS gameplay ever made but overshadowed by: - attrocious 'coroporate-edgy' dialogue and voice acting that caused me to play with the voices muted or nearly muted depending who is talking, - constant unskippable in-game 'cutscenes' with no player interaction that force you to sit there and wait for a few minutes to continue playing, - uninteresting storyline, sidequests, and characters, - visually dull, repetitive, linear overworld that is broken up into load-screen gated maps -…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great Gameplay, Terrible story. Play for the smooth ass gameplay, dont pay attention to anything but the DLCs.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Coming soon to Xbox game Pass and PC Game Pass: South of Midnight, Blue Prince, Borderlands 3, and more! news.xbox.com/en-us/2025/0...
neutral · AI labelView post →Reddit chungus humor cannot overpower the joy of playing this with a friend
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →good gameplay but a LOT of yapping from very annoying characters. Story is the weakest part. Solid 7.3/10
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Borderlands 3 is barely an okay game. A lot of people will complain about the humor and the ♥♥♥♥♥♥ side missions, but I wanna focus on what bothered me the most. As many others have said before me, this one easily has the worst story out of all of the Borderlands games, but for me, it wasn't that big of a deal until it was very obviously affecting the quality of the gameplay. Let me explain. This is not a problem unique to this iteration of the franchise, and I think it's also a huge issue in…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Why is the damn game 130 GB. Wtf is wrong with game devs now that they forgot how to zip files.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Borderlands 2 was one of my favorite games. I 100% completed that game entirely solo/offline. When I heard that Randy assaulted his employees, I swore off Borderlands 3. You can play other games folks. Don't give them a single penny.
negative · AI labelView post →I like video game soundtracks if I’m working. The Eden-6 music from Borderlands 3 is the best. For general comfort, Firewater, old Nine Inch Nails, Concrete Blonde, and Nick Cave’s Murder Ballads.
positive · AI labelView post →Getting the bolognese out of the way so I can settle into a lovely game of Borderlands 3 for the millionth time
neutral · AI labelView post →
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