Borderlands 4 Forces Fans To Fall Back in Love With a Classic Game
Published 9/17/2025
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Series X|S / Switch 2 / PC / PS5 - 9/12/2025
Borderlands 4
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.
- Developer
- Gearbox Software
- Publisher
- 2K
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Critic avg
82
61 scored reviews
Total coverage
61
All coverage currently scored
Score range
60–100
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Signal shape
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Score range is 31+ points
Critic landscape
The critic average is 82 across 61 scored reviews, with a 40-point spread. Critics are far apart on this one.
How to read this
Treat the average carefully. A polarized landscape is where reviewer match, review text, and score deltas matter more than the headline number.
Most scored reviews currently sit in the 80–89 band.
Score distribution
Shows how included scored reviews are clustered across the normalized 100-point scale.
61 included scored reviews
90–10019 reviews · 31%
80–8930 reviews · 49%
70–796 reviews · 10%
Below 706 reviews · 10%
Showing 31-40 of 61 matching critic reviews. 61 total critic reviews. Page 4 of 7.
Jesse Vitelli
Restart.runBorderlands 4 Review: Mayhem and Order
Published 9/17/2025
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80
-2 vs critic avg
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Read originalErik Hodges
Try Hard GuidesBorderlands 4 Review — Quadruple Badass
Published 9/17/2025
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90
+8 vs critic avg
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Read originalSteve Boxer
The GuardianBorderlands 4 review – the chaotic, colourful shooter has finally grown up a little
Published 9/17/2025
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Score
60
-22 vs critic avg
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Read originalJonathan Toyad
KakuchopureiBorderlands 4 Review: Freedom Wars
Published 9/16/2025
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80
-2 vs critic avg
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Read originalBrau3er
GameSpaceBorderlands 4 PC Review
Published 9/16/2025
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87
+5 vs critic avg
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Read originalTao Dawkins
NoobFeedBorderlands 4 Review
Published 9/15/2025
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90
+8 vs critic avg
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Read originalMichael Gerra-Clarin
Game8A Much-Needed Second Wind
Published 9/13/2025
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82
0 vs critic avg
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Read originalMaisie Scott
GamesCreedBorderlands 4 Review
Published 9/12/2025
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60
-22 vs critic avg
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Read originalJames Stephanie Sterling
The JimquisitionBorderlands 4 - Grap Trap (Review) Writer: James Stephanie Sterling
Published 9/12/2025
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60
-22 vs critic avg
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