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2012 · Loot · Shooter · Co-op

How long isBorderlands 2?

by Gearbox Software & Aspyr (Mac)

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41 hours

for the typical playerhalf of them between 12 hours and 110 hours

Borderlands 2 among the 20 looter shooters here

The whole tier list
BPlayed tier

#6

of 20

ranked by owners here who played past two hours

59%
got past 2 hours
+7 on the kind's 52%
31%
past 20 hours
+7 on the kind's 24%
72%
launched it
+7 on the kind's 65%
1,182
libraries own it
1 in 2 of the 2,483 read here
Borderlands 2 ↓
#1 Borderlands® 4#20
A#5 Borderlands 366% past 2h
B#6 Borderlands 259% past 2h
B#7 ZERO Sievert63% past 2h
28% of its owners here never launched it. More or fewer than the next game?Play higher or lower

The longest-played looter shooter here: 41 hours for the typical player, more than all 23 others.

Does Borderlands 2 hold up?

Holds steady

Do the first two hours of Borderlands 2 tell you?

In the first two hours71%recommend it

After that91%recommend it

10 in 100 said no: 8 after the window had closed, 2 while a refund was still possible.

How this is counted

Half of its Steam reviewers had played 41 hours or less when they gave their verdict. The middle half sat between 12 hours and 110 hours.

One token is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. Counted from about 313,000 Steam reviews, by the hours each author had played when they wrote theirs. It is not a time to beat.

It holds steady: between 85% and 92% recommend it at every stage past the first two hours.

6% of its reviews were written inside Steam's two-hour refund window, and 71% of those recommend it. After the window, 91% do. Of the players who gave it a thumbs-down, 84% were already past the window; the typical thumbs-down came 22 hours in.

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When would you get there?

6weeks

At an hour a night, you’d pass the typical player’s 41 hours on Friday, December 25.

Half of its reviewers had played between 12 and 110 hours: Nov 26 to Mar 4, 2027 at this pace.

How this is counted

The typical player's hours are the hours Steam reviewers had played when they wrote their review, not a time to beat. The days count from today, playing the hours the pace says on each day.

Where do players get filtered in Borderlands 2?

The filter

Dragon Slayer

18 of every 100 players got to this one and no further.

They hold First One's Free and never earned it.

  1. Launched it100% launched it
  2. First One's FreeCompleted the mission "My First Gun".−1090% hold it
  3. Dragon SlayerCompleted the mission "Best Minion Ever".Filtered −1872% hold it
  4. A Road Less TraveledCompleted the mission "The Road To Sanctuary".−666% hold it
  5. An Old FlameCompleted the mission "Hunting The Firehawk".−759% hold it
  6. No Man Left BehindCompleted the mission "A Dam Fine Rescue".−752% hold it
  7. Wilhelm ScreamedCompleted the mission "A Train To Catch".−547% hold it
  8. Can See My House From HereCompleted the mission "Bright Lights, Flying City".−344% hold it
  9. Farewell, Old GirlCompleted the mission "Wildlife Preservation".−539% hold it
  10. Identity TheftCompleted the mission "The Man Who Would Be Jack".−336% hold it
  11. Bombs AwayCompleted the mission "Toil And Trouble".−432% hold it
  12. Cool Story, BroDefeated Jack.−230% hold it
How this is counted

90% of the players who launched Borderlands 2 hold First One's Free, its first story achievement on Steam, and 30% hold Cool Story, Bro, its last. The steepest drop comes between First One's Free (90%) and Dragon Slayer (72%).

Steam's global achievement stats count everyone who ever launched the game, people still playing included. They are not a finish rate. The filter is the steepest drop between two story achievements; the players who never reached the first one barely started, and are never the filter.

Before you play Borderlands 2

Or read it on one page

The whole story of Borderlands 2

Read it, ending included

Where did you leave it?

Stopped part way? Your Steam profile brings back the story so far, read aloud, up to the last story achievement you hold. Nothing past it.

No Steam, or played it elsewhere?

Is Borderlands 2 worth it?

Is Borderlands 2 worth it? Yes.

  • A steal

    3.8× the hours of a typical looter shooter, for the same money

  • Loved

    91% recommend it after the refund windowmost looter shooters: 79%

  • Usually played

    72% of owners here have played itmost looter shooters: 67%

How this is counted

At Steam's US list price of $19.99, the typical player's 41 hours come to 49¢ an hour. Past the two-hour refund window, 91% of its Steam reviewers recommend it. At 49¢ an hour, Borderlands 2 is the cheapest hour of all 23 looter shooters here: the typical one of 23 looter shooters here charges $1.87, so the same $19.99 buys 3.8× the hours.

The price is Steam's US list price for the game by itself: not a sale price, a bundle or what anyone paid. The hours are the ones its reviewers had played, not a time to beat. Its kind (looter shooters) is what the game is first, as a model that knows games named it once from a list of Steam's kinds (for a game it did not know, its strongest Steam tags name it), among the kinds with at least 20 priced games here; failing that, by its Steam genre. The going rate is the middle hourly cost of those games, and the receipt prices its typical hours at it. The words beside it compare it with its kind: loved is 90% recommending it or more, liked 80%, mixed 65%; it gets played when a quarter fewer of the owners read here never launched it than of its kind's typical game. Whether it holds up is drawn on the hours road above, and counts toward the one-word answer.

Where can I play Borderlands 2 today?

Almost anywhere

PC, PS5, Xbox Series, Switch and 4 more.

  1. Xbox 3602012
  2. PS Vita2014
  3. todayAndroid2016
  4. todaySteamVR2019ported
  5. todayPS42023in Borderlands Collection: Pandora's Box
  6. todayPC2023in Borderlands Collection: Pandora's Box
  7. todayXbox One2023in Borderlands Collection: Pandora's Box
  8. todayXbox Series2023in Borderlands Collection: Pandora's Box
  9. todayPS52023in Borderlands Collection: Pandora's Box
  10. todaySwitch2024in Borderlands Collection: Pandora's Box

and 1 older machine before these

How this is counted

From IGDB, found by its Steam app: the machines Borderlands 2 came out on and the year it first reached each, and the collections, ports, remasters and remakes that carry it. A machine counts for today while it, or the one after it, still plays its games and its store sells them: Switch, PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One and Series, PC and phones. A PC release from before 2005 counts as gone, unless Steam sells it. IGDB does not say when a store stopped selling a release, so a delisted one can still show here.

Would you like Borderlands 2?

Give the ball your Steam profile link or name. It reads the games you own most like Borderlands 2, how long each held you against the typical player, and how long Borderlands 2 would take you. Public profiles only. No account needed, and no library is saved.

How this is counted

It reads how long you tend to stay: across every game you've played whose typical hours it knows (free games left out), how often you went past the typical player and how often you left before half their hours. It glows when you often stay past them, dims when you often leave early, and needs five played games to read at all. Then it shows the games you own most like this one, by the same measure as the shelf of games like it, each with your hours against the typical player's.

Why not a forecast for this game: on 36,766 Steam libraries, how a player did on games like one told little beyond how long they stay in games at all, so those games are shown as evidence and never scored. Nothing of the library is kept.

@drezel holds this page

  1. 1st@drezel433 h
  2. 2nd@player-43155 h
  3. 3rd@nu1x149 h
  4. 4th@mossyotter137 h
  5. 5th@slowspeaker137 h
  6. 6th@zocchihedron112 h
  7. 7th@teddy-bear-inc67 h
  8. 8th@ravage63 h

Public pages here, by the hours Steam has on this game. From two hours up, the most hours holds the page.

What did people here do with Borderlands 2?

  • C

    The middle pick of 10 players on the Steam tier list

  • 1 in 8

    Name 100 runs say its name: players asked to name 100 games from memory

How this is counted

Counted from the Steam libraries read here and the pages kept here, not from all of Steam's players. A case is one owner, or one in twenty of them when there are more. The tier is the middle player's on the Steam tier list, shown once ten players have ranked it.

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  2. 2

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How this is counted

Its own series apart, where it plays alike; then the games sharing the most of its strongest Steam tags, genres and themes, the better known ahead among the about as alike. A model that knows games read the list once: the ones it said do not play like this game are left out, the closest come first. Under each name, what sets it apart from Borderlands 2: a kind of game it is that Borderlands 2 is not, a feature its tags carry that Borderlands 2's barely do, how many hours people play it, how its reviewers feel. Each case wears the hours its own page leads with.

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