Borderlands 4
Last updated: 2026-01-21
- Engaging and improved story experience
- Exceptional gunplay and combat mechanics
- High replayability with abundant content
- Severe performance optimization issues
- Repetitive and empty open-world design
- Overpriced relative to content offered
Emotions
Frustration34%Disappointment25%Satisfaction9%Excitement5%Enjoyment5%
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Mixed (5/10)
- Total reviews
- 74,287
- Positive
- 44,74560.2%
- Negative
- 29,54239.8%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 4,905,870
- Estimated revenue
- $343,361,841
- Game price
- $70
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 1,9463.81%
- Estimated copies lost
- 128,513
- Estimated revenue lost
- $8,994,625
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 1,9573.8% Avg playtime 1h | 1470.3% Avg playtime 1.1h |
| > 2h playtime | 21,22341.5% Avg playtime 65.4h | 27,76254.3% Avg playtime 93h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 387.5 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 32.4 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 0 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 131.9 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
51,089 total
Organic purchasers35,46769.4%
Voted up: 56%
Key activations15,62230.6%
Voted up: 53%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
51,089 total
First impression0-2h5,27010.3%
Voted up: 28%
Mid game2-10h13,28426.0%
Voted up: 60%
Late game10-20h8,43716.5%
Voted up: 60%
Endgame20h+24,09847.2%
Voted up: 56%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
39.8%
Global baseline 54.6%
98 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 74,287 total.