Borderlands 2
Last updated: 2025-12-21
- Engaging story and memorable characters
- High replayability with vast loot variety
- Hilarious humor enhances immersion deeply
- Excessive late-game grinding frustrates players
- Tedious combat and repetitive enemy design
- Pacing and traversal issues disrupt flow
Emotions
Frustration19%Excitement14%Amusement9%Nostalgia9%Satisfaction9%
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Very Positive (8/10)
- Total reviews
- 315,963
- Positive
- 279,23988.4%
- Negative
- 36,72411.6%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 20,061,143
- Estimated revenue
- $401,022,249
- Game price
- $20
- Review โ sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 2,4878.02%
- Estimated copies lost
- 157,905
- Estimated revenue lost
- $3,156,521
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment ร Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| โค 2h playtime | 2,5048.1% Avg playtime 0.9h | 7172.3% Avg playtime 0.9h |
| > 2h playtime | 14,38146.4% Avg playtime 93.4h | 13,40443.2% Avg playtime 119.8h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 7 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 30.9 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 805.6 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 4,407.7 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
31,006 total
Organic purchasers17,71057.1%
Voted up: 41%
Key activations13,29642.9%
Voted up: 52%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
31,006 total
First impression0-2h3,73612.0%
Voted up: 27%
Mid game2-10h6,76221.8%
Voted up: 52%
Late game10-20h3,69011.9%
Voted up: 53%
Endgame20h+16,81854.2%
Voted up: 46%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
53.5%
Global baseline 45.5%
241 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 315,963 total.