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Pandora is well suited to a co-op run: online and LAN play support up to four players, and friends can join the campaign in progress. Four classes and procedurally generated gear give the shooter its distinctive loot chase. At ≈ $2.53 from 
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01About Borderlands 2
Borderlands 2 mixes first-person shooting with loot hunting across Pandora. Pick one of four Vault Hunter classes, collect procedurally generated weapons and gear, and take on creatures, psychos, and Hyperion alone or with friends. The story centers on revenge against Handsome Jack. Steam player rating: 89% positive from 210,665 reviews. Released September 20, 2012.
Credits
Composer
Cris Velasco · Sonic Mayhem · Jesper Kyd · Kevin Riepl
Developer
Gearbox Software · Aspyr (Mac) · Aspyr (Linux)
Publisher
2K · Aspyr (Mac) · Aspyr (Linux)
Voice
[Q138507460]
Lowest recorded in 36 months
$0.002025-06-05 · SteamBase game · same records as the chart above; USD history, not a regional Steam low.Language support
| Language | Interface | Subtitles | Audio |
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| Traditional Chinese | Yes | Yes | — |
| English | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| French | Yes | Yes | Yes |
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| Language | Interface | Subtitles | Audio |
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| German | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Italian | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Japanese | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Spanish | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Korean | Yes | Yes | — |
Steam PC edition data · 2026-10-19
02Before you buy
Co-op
The Steam PC version supports online and LAN co-op for up to four players, with drop-in campaign play.
Controls and language
The Steam PC version offers full controller support. German audio and subtitles are supported.
03Frequently asked questions
Which classes can I play?
Choose from the Siren, Commando, Gunzerker, and Assassin. The Gunzerker can dual-wield any two weapons found in the game.
Where does the story take place?
The story takes you across Pandora and pits you against Hyperion CEO Handsome Jack.
Can I play the campaign with friends?
Yes. Online and LAN co-op support up to four players, and players can join the campaign without restarting.
8.8
Overall Score
Graphics8
Audio6.5
Gameplay9.5
Story9
Content9
“The looter-shooter that nailed both random-loot grind and a top-tier villain in Handsome Jack, built for long co-op nights”
Our Verdict
Gather the six dimensions and Borderlands 2 reads as a game with very sharp strengths and very honest flaws. It is no flawless all-rounder. But it pulled off the two things that matter most — the pull of the loot grind and the soul of its villain writing — at a height the genre still struggles to reach. The 8.8 verdict is for that rare double act.
The coordinate it planted, and who it is for
Rewind to 2012 and the thing it did was foundational. It did not invent the looter-shooter, but it sanded a rough genre smooth and proved, forcefully, that the rush of a loot grind and the work of telling a real story can coexist in one game without elbowing each other out. Later titles — Destiny 2, The Division — all run on the framework it blazed. Calling it the genre's foundation stone is no exaggeration. The tech dates, the visuals get outrun, but a villain you both laugh at and loathe and a loot loop you cannot put down do not depreciate; whenever people argue about how a looter-shooter ought to be built, this game is still the reference pulled off the shelf.
So who is it for? Anyone who wants the satisfaction of gear progression, is glad to grind long co-op nights with friends on comms, and still refuses an empty plot — this is built for you almost to spec. It hands you dozens to hundreds of hours of purpose, plus a villain who makes you laugh out loud and a cast that will not shut up. If you love the "one more drop and then bed" brand of late-night hook, it becomes your comfort food. Few games of its generation reward that particular appetite as completely, and fewer still do it while keeping you genuinely invested in why you are out there grinding in the first place.
Who should skip it, the edition to grab, and its place in the family
Who should walk away? If the "go here, clear the foes, fetch the thing" errand structure grates on you, or if what you crave is a lean, tight, no-wasted-line linear single-player story, the padded campaign pacing and sprawling side quests will wear you down. Its joy is built on finding variety inside repetition, not on a single uninterrupted arc — that is its character and its filter. The same goes if you are the kind of player who uninstalls the instant the credits roll: most of its content design simply is not aimed at you, and the calculus turns sour. Decide first whether you want a story or a system to live in, then book your trip to Pandora.
On editions, grab the one with all the DLC — a Game of the Year or Handsome Collection build. The series-best pack praised above, Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep, and most of the endgame kit live inside that DLC; buying the base game alone is buying half a game and missing the best of it. Within the family tree this is the load-bearing sequel: it caught the world the first game left behind, used a prequel to chart Jack's rise, and used the third entry to extend the looter-shooter framework it defined — Jack's full arc spanning several games, with this one its boldest brushstroke. In the end its hardest-to-replace quality is the weld: bottomless randomized gear progression fused to an ever-present villain. Rivals like Destiny 2 can run a grind more industrial and more polished, yet none has written a villain you remember for life. A play system with a soul is harder to copy than a perfect, cold one — and that, more than anything, is why people still bring it up after all these years.
Popular Steam reviews
Native-language selection · 10 reviewsSelected helpful reviews in this language show both recommendations and criticisms. This selection does not represent the overall positive rating; opinions reflect the version reviewed.
RecommendedSteam player
Well, my review is mainly for beginners who have just started this game or willing to buy it. This is also for them who had stopped playing it after some trivial hours of trying. A great game but yet I think the enjoyment will depend on how you are playing it! All that I mean, if you want to get the fullest essence of this game then play with suitable co-op partner(s). Some who enjoys solo, they may say different but as I played solo because I had none to play with, so I felt even boring in some point and so also I felt how much the experience would be better with suitable co-op partner(s). This is a hard-core game for hard-core gamers. Death and incapability may happen every now and then… but again the number may be reduced dramatically if you have your co-op partner(s). There are some other advantages too to play co-op (such as, better loot, or think that while you are reloading your gun, your co op partner still firing and thus you will be less hurt by enemies) and the game itself prompts for co-op although everything can be done in solo except few achievements. This is a long game, including DLCs and need patience to finish them all. However, as I said before, this is a hard core game with almost a lot enemy everywhere, so, at some point you can feel frustrated if you don’t have proper levelled equipment and so you should farm for right things enough. Here again comes the advantage of co-op; such as you 4 people if farm for 4 weapons and then you can make duplicate of those [though it is a glitch] and you 4 can be well equipped… which chance does not exist in solo and so can be a lot time consuming and monotonous to be advanced. For new players, as I was when I started this game… may be a problem to understand the architecture of the game. At the very beginning the game starts in NORMAL mode. Once you will finish the main game… then TVHM [True Vault Hunter Mode] will be unlocked which you can take as medium difficulty. Re-playing the game in TVHM mode from the beginning once you reach at level 50 and then so also if you have finished the last mission of main story, then UVHM [Ultimate Vault Hunter Mode] will be unlocked for you. So take this as hard mode. There are over power [OP (1 to 8)] mode also where you can think it as very hard difficulty mode where enemy is up of your level. but that can be unlocked once you reach the ultimate level of the game, i.e. level 72. So, the main game will take you upto the level 50; The UVH pack 1 will take you upto 61 and UVH pack 2 will take you to level 72. Addition as on 30th June: Since I have just finished the main mission of main game in UVHM mode so I shall suggest you if you are playing UVHM then you must carry 2 blue pistols: Potent Rubi and Potent Gorg Nozzle and always keep one of these at your one slot. Whenever you are low in health start shooting using it. This is the review basing on my present experience of nearly 400 hours; I can update this review in the future as I shall get new experience.Show moreShow less
381.4 hours at review2,446 people found this helpful
Not recommendedSteam player
Take-Two and 2K games have updated all their games Terms of Service, turning this game as well as all of their other games into literal spyware. Important Info in Terms of Service: • Mods are a bannable offense • Display of Cheats/Exploits is bannable • Forced arbitration clause and a waiver of class action and jury trial rights for all users residing in the United States and any other territory other than Australia, Switzerland, The United Kingdom, or The Territories of The European Economic Area • You can be banned for using a VPN while connecting to online servers • Cannot access game content on a Virtual PC Collected Data Types: • Identifiers / Contact Information: Name, user name, gamertag, postal and email address, phone number, unique IDs, mobile device ID, platform ID, gaming service ID, advertising ID (IDFA, Android ID) and IP address • Protected Characteristics: Age and gender • Commercial Information: Purchase and usage history and preferences, including gameplay information • Billing Information: Payment information (credit / debit card information) and shipping address • Internet / Electronic Activity: Web / app browsing and gameplay information related to the Services; information about your online interaction(s) with the Services or our advertising; and details about the games and platforms you use and other information related to installed applications • Device and Usage Data: Device type, software and hardware details, language settings, browser type and version, operating system, and information about how users use and interact with the Services (e.g., content viewed, pages visited, clicks, scrolls) • Profile Inferences: Inferences made from your information and web activity to help create a personalized profile so we can identify goods and services that may be of interest • Audio / Visual Information: Account photos, images, and avatars, audio information via chat features and functionality, and gameplay recordings and video footage (such as when you participate in playtesting) • Sensitive Information: Precise location information (if you allow the Services to collect your location), account credentials (user name and password), and contents of communications via chat features and functionality.Show moreShow less
343.7 hours at review36,228 people found this helpful
RecommendedSteam player
Borderlands 2 is a game for those that enjoy the feeling of finding awesome equipment hidden in a massive pile of other stuff. Sure, you don't NEED to go in-depth with this game. On the first playthrough you can get by with just picking up gear as you travel along, choosing stuff that looks better than your current gear, and maybe occasionally buying something in the vendor that looks handy. The deeper you go down the rabbit hole however, the more there is to discover. The story is decent for a First Person Shooter (albeit one with RPG elements), and dialogue is often amusing to a degree. Handsome Jack, the main antagonist is a cartoon villain with M rated attitudes. He believes, or at least pretends to believe that he is the good guy, and you are just a "Filthy Bandit.". Graphically, the game has a lot more variations in design and color scheme than it's predecessor (which was brown, brown, and a bit of color here and there). Cell shaded graphics with thick, graphic novel like outlines is the style of the game, and does a good job of separating it from the average FPS. Now, on to the gameplay itself!: Action is often fast paced and exciting. So long as you don't allow yourself to get too far ahead of the enemy levels, you'll find battles where you have to fight hard to win. The game does a decent job of easing you into the various elements, such as different gun types (Pistol, SMG, Assault/Combat Rifle, Shotgun, Revolver, Rocket Launcher, and Sniper Rifle), the importance of a good shield, grenade mods (alter the way your grenade behaves, including damage bonuses and special effects), Class Mods (Class-specific devices which can boost skills, and have other effects like increasing fire rate with specific weapon types), and lastly Relics (Device which generally boost damage or defence in some way). Equipment rarity is also made fairly clear. It goes White, Green, Blue, Purple, Magenta, Orange, Seraph, and Pearlescent. The final two rarities (Pearlescent and Seraph) are special. Seraphs require you to have at least one of the season pass DLC to obtain (and you need all 4 of the Season Pass DLC to obtain all the Seraph rarity items), and as to Pearlescent rarity weapons, you need to be in Ultimate Vault Hunter Mode (Playthrough 3) for them to have a chance of being spawned. Don't assume that a blue is automatically better than a green rarity item, even at the same level. Experiment! Playable Characters and Skills: There are 4 included playable characters, and two DLC characters. Each class has it's ups and downs, and a special game changing skill unique to them. For example, Salvador (Gunzerker) will dual-wield guns when his action skill is active, meaning TWICE THE FIREPOWER. Axton (Commando) drops a turret, which damages enemies and draws aggression away from you. Maya (Siren) locks an enemy's movements for a short time, allowing you to get in free hits. Zer0 turns invisible for a few seconds and launches a decoy, and his first attack made whilst in this mode does increased damage. The DLC characters are Gaige (Mechromancer) who launches a flying robot that attacks nearby enemies, and Kreig (Psycho); a schizophrenic musclebound maniac that will whale on everything within reach with increased offensive and defensive capabilities and can even throw his axe at more distant targets. Aside from the action skills unique to the character, there are various other skills that you can put points into, and have an effect on gameplay in some way. For example, increasing fire rate or damage for a few seconds after a kill is made. Each character has 3 skill trees, each ending with a final gamechanging skill modifier. For example, Zer0's Bloodlust (Melee) tree ends with the Many Must Fall perk, which will instantly re-deploy the hologram if he kills the enemy with one melee strike. As mentioned before, Class Mods unique to a character class will boost certain skills. It's possible for them to go as high as +6, meaning some skills can be boosted to 11, as the normal limit on points you can put into most skills is 5, though some skills are only 1 (those usually affect the way you play). Plus, there is a gun that shoots swords....EXPLODING swords...In DLC4 (Tiny Tina's Assault on the Dragon Keep). So yeah, there is that too. I hope you found my review useful, even if it might be a bit messy XDShow moreShow less
671.5 hours at review1,826 people found this helpful
Not recommendedSteam player
Borderlands aka Take-two and 2K games have updated their games even their older games. THIS INCLUDES COLLECTS USERNAMES AND PASSWORDS, IP LOCATIONS AND BROWSER HISTORY DATA. Important Info in ToS: • Mods are a bannable offense • Display of Cheats/Exploits is bannable • Forced arbitration so long as it is permitted in your region • You can be banned for the using a VPN while connecting to online servers • Cannot access game content on a Virtual PC • Best last they reserve the right to modify this Agreement, in whole or in part, at any time A company who's CEO was accused of leaving a USB with illegal material on it as well as sensitive data of Gearbox/2K partners in a medieval themed restaurant wants all your delectable data and will never let anyone gain access to your data intentionally or not. ᴾʳᵒᵐᶦˢᵉ Collected Data Types: • Identifiers / Contact Information: Name, user name, gamertag, postal and email address, phone number, unique IDs, mobile device ID, platform ID, gaming service ID, advertising ID (IDFA, Android ID) and IP address • Protected Characteristics: Age and gender • Commercial Information: Purchase and usage history and preferences, including gameplay information • Billing Information: Payment information (credit / debit card information) and shipping address • Internet / Electronic Activity: Web / app browsing and gameplay information related to the Services; information about your online interaction(s) with the Services or our advertising; and details about the games and platforms you use and other information related to installed applications • Device and Usage Data: Device type, software and hardware details, language settings, browser type and version, operating system, and information about how users use and interact with the Services (e.g., content viewed, pages visited, clicks, scrolls) • Profile Inferences: Inferences made from your information and web activity to help create a personalized profile so we can identify goods and services that may be of interest • Audio / Visual Information: Account photos, images, and avatars, audio information via chat features and functionality, and gameplay recordings and video footage (such as when you participate in playtesting) • Sensitive Information: Precise location information (if you allow the Services to collect your location), account credentials (user name and password), and contents of communications via chat features and functionality.Show moreShow less
65.9 hours at review1,959 people found this helpful
RecommendedSteam player
A game about 4 trash collectors looking for the best trash ever 10/10Show moreShow less
41.4 hours at review1,683 people found this helpful
Not recommendedSteam player
It should be illegal to change terms of service or user agreements on a non live service game after years from release with exception to new DLCs or new content. Terms of service used to be about reserving the copyrights and intellectual property of a business and its artists. Now its just about being able to sue as many people as possible for as much money as possible.Show moreShow less
1.6 hours at review1,468 people found this helpful
RecommendedSteam player
2026-07-08 Edit: SHiFTs servers have changed and is why the game won't launch. They are working on a fix. (Next day edit) Thank you rage-baiters for falling for my trap card. Have a nice day. Don't believe without actual facts There is nothing wrong with the EULA There is no malware / rootkit / spyware / etc. Recent negative reviews are basing their claims that can be traced backwards to a single source who has a history of spreading misinformation online. Unlike others, I did my research on my own and even compared the EULA to what it was previously. There is nothing wrong with the EULA compared to the ones you probably agreed to for Valve, Blizzard, Nexon, Roblox, etc. etc. Nobody has come forward with any actual proof for any malware, rootkit, spyware, nor anti-cheat. If there was, you would have heard about it from numerous, and 100% real, security professionals in the InfoSec field. AI like ChatGPT / etc. are not security professionals! AI-generated answers are just fancy "next word predictions" that your smartphone is capable of. The only difference between these AI-generated answers and your phone is that the AI has a bunch of more data fed to it (and using such AI feeds it more information into their databases). Never trust AI blindly -- Always do your research yourself!! -- Ammended from the comments, without edits (thank you, Skywatcher68) -- Everyone should read what Randy Pitchford has to say. https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/borderlands-boss-reassures-players-amid-review-bombs/ TLDR: the EULA is from the lawyers, the software is from the programmers, and neither has a say in what the other does. For those who, like some of the commentators in that link, don't trust the boss, here's another link which not only agrees with CtrlAltCutness here but also points out that the EULA changed in *February*! https://www.thegamer.com/borderlands-take-two-user-agreement-changes-steam-review-bomb/Show moreShow less
459.8 hours at review1,413 people found this helpful
Not recommendedSteam player
It should be illegal to change terms of service or user agreements on a non live service gameShow moreShow less
63.2 hours at review1,190 people found this helpful
RecommendedSteam player
The Review: Borderlands 2 is a great game. You should at least try it. Now, the main reason I am writing this. No, the game is not spyware. It’s a misunderstanding based on a recent update to the terms of service. What happened was the games publisher, Take Two Interactive, updated the terms of their end user license recently. Several actors in the Borderlands community misread these changes as them turning the currently released games in the franchise into literal spyware. This is not true. The games are perfectly safe to run and your data will not be stolen. The codebase for the games is unchanged, all the update did is add an advertisement for the upcoming fourth game and you have to agree to the new EUL before you can play online. That said if you feel uncomfortable playing due to this controversy or Take Two changing the EUL without your consent, I understand. I post this only to clarify the situation and will update it as needed. If you want more on the situation, this Reddit post does a good job explaining it: https:// old.reddit.com/r/Borderlands/comments/1kusnqa/new_eula_question_if_anyone_knows/mu4esbx/?context=3 QnA: Will the game spy on me? – NO. The games code base is unchanged from before the update. The game itself will not collect any information. Will I need a Kernel Level Anti-Cheat which will spy on me? - NO. You will not need to install any anti-cheat to play Borderlands 2. The update did not change this. Why has the EUL been changed? - Take Two recently bought Gearbox and thus the rights Borderlands franchise. As part of their acquisition of Gearbox, Take Two is updating all online games Gearbox to use their EUL since they host the servers now. Can I play without agreeing to the new EUL? - Yes. You will have to play the game in offline mode and cannot access multiplayer features, but you can still play without agreeing to the EUL. Will I be banned from multiplayer or sued by Take Two for using mods? - NO. The game is a 10+ year old co-op shooter. Take Two does not care if you mod it. This part of the EUL is relevant for modern releases and in active development projects such as Grand Theft Auto Online where cheating and piracy via mods is a very real problem. Will I be banned from multiplayer for using foul language? - NO. Again, this is a 10+ year old game. Take Two does not care if you trash talk your teammates. Again, this part of the EUL is relevant to more modern projects. Still, please respect your teammates. What data does the new EUL cover? - Emails, phone numbers, username, name, IP address, and passwords if relevant. If this sounds concerning, know that this is standard for many EULs where you need to create an account. You provided all this information except the latter to Steam when you created your account, Take Two just asks Steam to look at this information. The password clause is only for your Gearbox Shift account, it will not steal banking passwords or your Steam password. Edit June 6th, 2025: Clarified a few things and added a linkShow moreShow less
46.6 hours at review1,254 people found this helpful
Not recommendedSteam player
Take-Two and 2K games have updated all their games Terms of Service, turning this game as well as all of their other games into literal spyware. Important Info in Terms of Service: • Mods are a bannable offense • Display of Cheats/Exploits is bannable • Forced arbitration clause and a waiver of class action and jury trial rights for all users residing in the United States and any other territory other than Australia, Switzerland, The United Kingdom, or The Territories of The European Economic Area • You can be banned for using a VPN while connecting to online servers • Cannot access game content on a Virtual PC Collected Data Types: • Identifiers / Contact Information: Name, user name, gamertag, postal and email address, phone number, unique IDs, mobile device ID, platform ID, gaming service ID, advertising ID (IDFA, Android ID) and IP address • Protected Characteristics: Age and gender • Commercial Information: Purchase and usage history and preferences, including gameplay information • Billing Information: Payment information (credit / debit card information) and shipping address • Internet / Electronic Activity: Web / app browsing and gameplay information related to the Services; information about your online interaction(s) with the Services or our advertising; and details about the games and platforms you use and other information related to installed applications • Device and Usage Data: Device type, software and hardware details, language settings, browser type and version, operating system, and information about how users use and interact with the Services (e.g., content viewed, pages visited, clicks, scrolls) • Profile Inferences: Inferences made from your information and web activity to help create a personalized profile so we can identify goods and services that may be of interest • Audio / Visual Information: Account photos, images, and avatars, audio information via chat features and functionality, and gameplay recordings and video footage (such as when you participate in playtesting) • Sensitive Information: Precise location information (if you allow the Services to collect your location), account credentials (user name and password), and contents of communications via chat features and functionality.Show moreShow less
3.8 hours at review1,165 people found this helpful
Source: original Steam user reviews. Helpful votes are an archived snapshot, not live data. Last collected: 08/14/2026.