Borderlands Game of the Year
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Discover the original co-op shooter-looter, crammed with new enhancements! As one of 4 trigger-happy mercenaries with RPG progression, equip bazillions of guns to take on the desert planet Pandora.
Borderlands Game of the Year Enhanced is a fps, shooter and co-op game
developed by Gearbox Software and Blind Squirrel Games
and published by 2K.
Released on August 31st 2023 is available on Windows, Steam Deck and Steam Machine
in 6 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain and Japanese.
It has received 18,430 reviews of which 14,928 were positive and 3,502 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.9 out of 10. 😊
The game is currently priced at 2.99€ on Steam with a 90% discount.
The Steam community has classified Borderlands Game of the Year Enhanced into these genres:
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First-Person
Loot
Online Co-Op
Action
RPG
Looter Shooter
Dark Humor
Comedy
Action RPG
Gore
Singleplayer
Multiplayer
Sci-fi
Atmospheric
Funny
Violent
Character Action Game
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- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS *: Windows 7 64-Bit
- Processor: Intel Core i3 530 @2.93GHz/AMD Phenom 9950 @2.6GHz
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Geforce GTX 660, Radeon HD 6970
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 25 GB available space
- Sound Card: Directx 9.0c
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Yes. You should play this game. That is, with a few specific exceptions: [*] If you have an aversion to early 2000’s jank. [*] Achievement hunters who want to enjoy their entire achievement journey. [*] If you want to skip the rough first season and skip to the good stuff. Borderlands is an absolutely *perfect* game for 2009; in 2026…it’s still good and worth a run for the adventure, but your time is better wasted in one of its far superior successors. ESPECIALLY Borderlands 2 . CORE CHARACTERISTICS • STYLE: Humor-driven Fetch Quest Looter-Shooter • AVG. SESSION: 30 minutes to Several hours • CHALLENGE: Zany Adventures (Playthrough 1) to Brutally Scaled (Playthrough 2) • MOOD: Anything Goes Violent Shooty Fun Time 🟢 THE POSITIVES ➕ The GRAPHICS. The art style holds up surprisingly well for being a game made nearly 20 years ago. (The blessing of stylized graphics!) ➕ The CHARACTERS. Not only the four Vault Hunters, but *definitely* the supporting cast. Characters like Scooter, Marcus, and CL4P-TP are rightfully remembered as some of the strongest and most entertaining side characters in gaming. ➕ The VOICE ACTING. Again: characters like Scooter are brilliantly written and voice-acted, but so are the main cast… Special shoutout to Brick, who is *constantly* having the very best time taking his foes to murder-church! ➕ The MUSIC. The themes perfectly reinforce the feeling of being a space cowboy in the wild west of Pandora. It’s perfect for the game. ➕ ENEMY VARIETY. The variety of enemies is diverse enough to make the world feel alive while being consistent enough to make your feelings about different types very, very personal. ➕ The DLC. Some of the best parts of the game are actually the DLC packs, which elevate the story, the world, and the adventure. The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned and Claptrap’s Robot Revolution are particularly enjoyable, while Mad Moxxi’s Underdome Riot and The Secret Armory of General Knoxx were probably better when we had more time to waste on fewer games. 🟡 THE..."TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT" 〰️ The punishing inventory management of a bygone era. The game makes inventory management a genuine pain in the backpack. It’s a blessing once you reach the point where you only care about Epic and Legendary weapons and can ignore everything else…but until then, enjoy the needless frustration of storing, cycling, and upgrading your gear. 〰️ Repetitive farming and fetch quests. Look…I get it…that was the name of the game in the early 2000’s when you had nothing better to do. Now? Why not go outside. Cook a meal. Spend some quality time with friends. (This would’ve been a very good area of improvement in the re-release, particularly with less backtracking, an updated teleportation system, less grindy requirements, and other useful advancements that showed up in the sequels.) 〰️ Weapon variety is okay…but comparing weapons is difficult. Borderlands was famous for having tons of guns and certainly improves on this formula in future games. However, in this first game, the drop rate of higher-level weapons and useful stat combos can feel limiting…leading to very long periods of “upgrade drought” when you’re running around with (sometimes significantly) under-leveled weapons. 〰️ The inability to discern the elemental weaknesses. It can be frustrating trying to remember what enemy is weak to what element. Some are more intuitive than others, but there’s a clear reason they added an elemental damage tutorial near the start of Borderlands 2 . 〰️ Artifacts don’t communicate whether they can be used. At some point, you’ve leveled up your artifact skills as far as you can, but nothing in the UI denotes that you no longer need to collect them. 💢 THE NOT-SO-GREAT ➖ PLAYTHROUGH 2. Since you can only really reach ~level 35 on your first playthrough, you will inevitably make the transition to Playthrough 2 to reach max level, expand your skills, and unlock new weapons. Unfortunately, Gearbox’s solution to make the mode harder is to make every enemy feel like a giant sack of potatoes that hits harder than a bus passing through Fyrestone. There’s little chance of recovering from being downed, and even Mordecai struggles to spike down your enemies. Playthrough 2 very quickly becomes zero fun, especially if you’re looking to complete the longer-term achievements or harder content like Knoxx’s Armory or Moxxi’s Underdome. ➖ The ACHIEVEMENTS. While most are fairly intuitive and unlock as you play, many are needlessly (and sometimes painfully) grindy. They are very “early 2000’s”: built for an age when we had nothing better to do with our time and no other games to play, and should have been rethought and redesigned for the GOTY Edition. ➖ VEHICLES. Cars in the Borderlands can best be described as “clunky.” Not only can they be difficult to drive around a world where the smallest rock can throw you off your path, but their health and damage struggles to keep up with enemies in Playthrough 2…making them the quickest and most painfully necessary way to fund Hyperion’s New-U stations. ➖ ROLAND’S TURRET. Its placement is inconsistent, it can’t be picked up if you misplace it, its impact on the battlefield isn’t really strong enough to be a meaningful game-changer, and its cooldown is exceptionally long until the late-late game. ➖ A variety of BUGS. Not just the fun ones you kill in-game…the game suffers from some frustrating issues that will crop up from time to time. [*] Occasionally your cursor will disappear entirely. [*] Custom waypoints will consistently re-appear on the map. [*] Audio lines will get cut off if other audio cues overwhelm them. [*] In-game chat is enabled by default and needs to be disabled via a config file. [*] A memory leak means the game will slow and inevitably crash if you play for more than an hour or two. [*] The game will have massive performance dips at moments that can be frustrating to play around. The game doesn’t feel “clean,” which is unfortunate since it was re-released (twice) with the chance to optimize and address the issues that hold it back from rising to the modern age of gaming. 🧐 THE VERDICT… Borderlands is a good game. It always was and continues to be. Yes, it can be janky and frustrating and even downright broken at moments…but if you’re not worried about achievements and want to do a story run for the lore before moving on to the truly LEGENDARY [url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/49520/Borderlands_2/] Borderlands 2 , it’s well worth the journey. ⭐ OVERALL: 8.5/10
This recommendation would largely mimic my review that I originally made of the original game over a decade and a half ago. It is still fun to come back to the original game in 2026. In fact, I'm doing so with a party of three as of this week. You don't have to spend ten times the amount to get a core Borderlands experience. This does the job more than fine, despite its age. Granted, it does have its fair share of jank with this release (online needing some CFG file tampering with other players, collision being odd at times, etc.) but after going through the rest of the games in the franchise, the original game ends up being a very solid experience. The gunplay is the key focus of these games and, for the most part, is very fun and serviceable. Admittedly, it's better with the later games in the release and some of the synergy and systems that they made between games 2, PS and 3 are likely superior but you can have some serious fun with the simplicity in this release. In fact, it has a skill leveling system that is unique to this game in the franchise, something they did away with in terms of 'the more you use a type of weapon, the more proficient you'll become'. Not entirely certain if that's a good or bad thing this many years on but I never had a problem with it in comparison to the buff system that they use now which is largely just random percentage buffs you get every so often based on challenges you clear on the newer games. Your mileage may vary. For being the first game in the series, this really is it in a distilled form with no substitutes. It's where I wish the franchise was close to today - a wild west space shooter in comparison to what feels like knockoff Halo with the newer games. If you got tired of the story and cheesy dialogue that constantly plagues the newer releases from 2 and on but you never gave the original game a shot because people overwhelming said 'start with 2 and play only 2', or similar, then take a step back and play this game. And if you've never played a single title in the series but are very interested in first-person shooters and looters similar to Diablo, then this is a fine entry point in the franchise. This game consistently rotates around the five dollar mark and includes every aspect of the original release, now reworked in HD with modern networking. If you enjoy this title, you'll likely enjoy the rest of them with varying degrees of success or disappointment. How far you go in this game will likely determine how diehard of a fan you'll become - this was most certainly the genesis for my fandom, for better or worse.
OK. I love this game for a few reasons. First off... the humour is continuous througout the game which I find lacking in the second and third installments personally. Second, the gameplay itself is very excellent. The DLC's are great and fun to play. I have played this game over and over and never have gotten bored, always new weapons to find. Overall.. excellent game, fun to play!
Folks, Borderlands: Game of the Year Enhanced is a tremendous game. Tremendous. Maybe one of the greatest looter-shooters ever made, people are saying it. You go to Pandora, total disaster, horrible planet, absolutely no leadership, psychos everywhere, monsters everywhere, and somehow it’s fantastic. And the guns, nobody has guns like Borderlands. Millions of guns. Beautiful guns. Fire guns, electric guns, exploding guns. Other games give you twelve guns. Very sad. Borderlands gives you millions. You see that orange legendary beam and you say, “I need that gun.” You have four health left, twenty psychos shooting at you, doesn’t matter. We’re getting the gun. And the Enhanced edition? Beautiful. Sharp graphics, great atmosphere, fantastic art style. Still looks good after all these years, which a lot of games cannot say, believe me. The story gets a little crazy at the end, you finally reach the Vault and suddenly there’s a gigantic tentacle monster, nobody expected it, frankly I don’t think the Vault Hunters expected it either. But who cares? You kill it, grab the loot, and go find an even better shotgun. Borderlands helped create the looter-shooter genre, everybody copied it, and they’re still copying it. 9/10. Pandora is a terrible place, probably one of the worst places. Fantastic game.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Borderlands Game of the Year Enhanced is currently priced at 2.99€ on Steam.
Yes, Borderlands Game of the Year Enhanced is currently available at a 90% discount. You can purchase it for 2.99€ on Steam.
Yes, Borderlands Game of the Year Enhanced received 14,928 positive votes out of a total of 18,430 achieving a rating of 7.94.
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Borderlands Game of the Year Enhanced was developed by Gearbox Software and Blind Squirrel Games and published by 2K.
Yes, Borderlands Game of the Year Enhanced is playable and fully supported on Windows.
No, Borderlands Game of the Year Enhanced is not playable on MacOS.
No, Borderlands Game of the Year Enhanced is not playable on Linux.
Yes, Borderlands Game of the Year Enhanced is playable on Steam Deck, though it might require a few minor tweaks. Make sure to check the Steam store page and community feedback on ProtonDB for exact compatibility details.
Yes, Borderlands Game of the Year Enhanced is playable on Steam Machine, though it might require a few minor tweaks. Make sure to check the Steam store page and community feedback on ProtonDB for exact compatibility details.
No, Borderlands Game of the Year Enhanced does not support VR.
Borderlands Game of the Year Enhanced offers both single-player and multi-player modes.
Borderlands Game of the Year Enhanced includes Co-op mode where you can team up with friends.
No, Borderlands Game of the Year Enhanced does not currently offer any DLC.
No, Borderlands Game of the Year Enhanced does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
No, Borderlands Game of the Year Enhanced does not support Steam Remote Play.
Yes, Borderlands Game of the Year Enhanced is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
You can find solutions or submit a support ticket by visiting the Steam Support page for Borderlands Game of the Year Enhanced.
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Developer
Gearbox Software,
Blind Squirrel Games
Publisher
2K
Release
31 Aug 2023
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