Gearbox’s Borderlands 4 formally launches on September 12, nevertheless it’s already obtainable for PC–and on Steam, it is placing up massive numbers.
Steam’s personal public stats present that Borderlands 4 is Steam’s top-selling title globally and in the US. It has exceeded 175,000 concurrent players to rank as Steam’s No. 4 most-played game today.
That is extra concurrent gamers than any earlier Borderlands sport ever achieved. Borderlands 2, which is the best-selling entry in the series, reached a record of 124,678 peak concurrent players and was the record-setter for peak concurrent gamers within the Borderlands franchise till at the moment. Borderlands 3, in the meantime, topped out at 93,820 peak concurrent players. That sport, nevertheless, was unique to the Epic Video games Retailer at launch.
Borderlands 4 can be obtainable on PC by way of the Epic Video games Retailer, so the outcomes on Steam solely account for a portion of the sport’s complete viewers on PC. The looter-shooter is coming to PS5 and Xbox Collection X|S later at the moment, with a Change 2 version arriving in early October.
GameSpot’s Borderlands 4 assessment scored the sport a 7/10. Reviewer Jordan Ramee wrote, “It is essentially the most mechanically sound Borderlands sport up to now, and the varied Vault Hunters every current an entertaining alternative to deal with the sport another way.”