Borderlands 3 (2019) - How Long to Beat, Player Count

About

Borderlands 3 came out on September 13, 2019 for PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, then for Mac on October 30, 2019 and for Google Stadia on December 17, 2019. On Steam, 81% of 128,165 player reviews are positive (Very Positive). 1,357 people are playing it on Steam right now, with a peak of 2,878 in the last 30 days. It is Playable on Steam Deck. The main story takes about 25 hours, doing everything about 100 hours. It was nominated for 3 awards.

Borderlands 3 is a first-person looter shooter set seven years after the events of Borderlands 2. Players select one of four new Vault Hunters and travel across multiple planets to stop Troy and Tyreen Calypso, twin cult leaders seeking to harness the power of alien Vaults scattered throughout the galaxy. The game features procedurally generated weapons, cooperative multiplayer for up to four players, expanded skill trees with multiple action skills per character, and new traversal mechanics including sliding and mantling.

Story

Seven years after the defeat of Handsome Jack, twin siblings Troy and Tyreen Calypso have formed the Children of the Vault, a violent cult built from Pandora's bandit factions. The twins, both Sirens born conjoined, seek to absorb the power of alien Vault monsters across the galaxy and open the Great Vault, a prison containing an interdimensional creature called the Destroyer. A team of new Vault Hunters, recruited by the Crimson Raiders and their leader Lilith, must pursue the Calypsos across multiple planets, forging alliances with old friends and new while racing to prevent the twins from unleashing a force capable of consuming the universe.

How long to beat Borderlands 3

from 3 players

Main storyrushing through the story

25 h

Main + extrasstory plus side content

42 h

Completionisteverything the game has

100 h

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Cast and crew

2 credits

Crew

Awards

0 won, 3 more nominations

British Academy Games Awards 2020

Nominated: Multiplayer

The Game Awards 2019

Nominated: Best Action/Adventure Nominated: Best Multiplayer

Media

Watch trailer 1 Watch trailer 2 Watch trailer 3 Watch trailer 4

Releases

Platform

Date

PC (Microsoft Windows)

September 13, 2019

September 13, 2019

September 13, 2019

October 30, 2019

December 17, 2019

November 10, 2020

November 12, 2020

Earliest full release on each platform; regional dates can differ.

PC and Steam Deck

Steam store page

Steam Deck: Playable runs, but may need some tweaks

Minimum

Recommended

OS *

Windows 7/10 (latest service pack)

Processor

AMD FX-8350 or Intel i5-3570

AMD Ryzen™ 5 2600 (Intel i7-4770)

Memory

6 GB RAM

16 GB RAM

Graphics

AMD Radeon™ HD 7970 or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 2 GB

AMD Radeon™ RX 590 or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB

DirectX

Version 11

Version 12

Storage

75 GB available space

Sound Card

DirectX Compatible

Requirements and Deck status as listed on Steam, checked Oct 28, 2026.

Borderlands 3 player count

concurrent players on Steam

1,357playing now42m ago

1,595peak today

2,87830-day peak

2,878highest we have seenOct 25, 2026

Oct 23daily peak, last 12 daystoday

Players counted on Steam every one to six hours; the daily peak is the highest count of the day.

Borderlands 3 achievements

81 achievements on Steam

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Ultimate Vault Hunter Unlock all Borderlands® 3 Achievements!

1.7%

Treat Yo Self Extract 100 pieces of gear from Arms Race.

1.7%

Might Beyond Sight Destroy 50 mysterious Eridium piles.

1.7%

Good One, Babe

1.8%

Whispers On The Wind Collect all ECHO logs on Xylourgos.

I'm Floudering Up Here Listen to 25 fish jokes.

2.5%

All 81 achievements by how many players unlocked them

How The West Was Done

2.5%

Who Collects The Collector? Defeat the wandering Debt Collector.

2.8%

Getting A Little On The Side Complete all Side Missions.

2.9%

That's Quite Challenging

2.9%

Fustercluck Off

3.6%

Ye Who Enter

3.8%

Swamped Discover all named locations on Eden-6.

3.9%

A Hundred Names For Sand Discover all named locations on Pandora.

City Slicker Discover all named locations on Promethea.

Industrious In The Face Of Cosmic Terror Complete all Crew Challenges and Side Missions on Xylourgos.

4.2%

Demysteriouslierified Solve all murder mysteries for Ava's podcast.

4.3%

Good Against Remotes Is One Thing Get a perfect score at the Firing Range on any difficulty.

4.4%

Complex Made Simple Explore the entire Stormblind Complex.

4.4%

Slaughterhouse 3 Complete all the Circles of Slaughter.

4.6%

Helpful Hunter

4.7%

Master Of All You Survey Discover all named locations.

4.9%

Killer Look Complete the Mayor's outfit.

5.1%

100-Proof Clear all the Eridian Proving Grounds.

5.3%

A Hunter, Through And Through Find and kill all four rare spawns.

5.7%

Blood Sucking Freak Defeat Hemovorous the Invincible.

5.8%

Gun Pals! Send an item to a friend.

6.4%

Rewards Card Earn a Loyalty Package from each weapon manufacturer.

7.2%

Zer0ed In Defeat all of Zer0's Targets of Opportunity.

7.3%

Got Big Game Defeat all of Hammerlock's Legendary Hunts.

7.5%

Firebug Sabotage all statues for Ember.

8.3%

Shoe Money Tonight Get a 21 in the blackjack minigame.

9.8%

Don't Be A Stranger Return for a chat with the Clapstructor.

9.8%

Scovillain Destroy all of Mr. Torgue's hot sauces.

10.1%

In the Eye of a Murdercane Win a round of Arms Race.

10.2%

Exoarchaeolo—You Get The Gist

10.3%

Red Wrath and Beyond

11.7%

Trauma Center

11.9%

Brain Pain Train Slain

12.5%

Ruin On The Horizon

12.6%

Bounty: Hunted

12.9%

Love Is The Fifth Dimension Marry your friends.

13%

Getting Off Track

13.4%

The Blast and the Furious

13.6%

Older Than The Trees Kill the Wendigo.

13.8%

It's A Wash

14.6%

Meat and Greet

14.8%

My Name Is Earl Buy 20 cosmetic items from Crazy Earl.

14.9%

Stone Cold Killer

15.9%

Party's Still On! Find the party.

16%

A Proper Hand-Off Complete mission “All Bets Off”.

16.3%

Stick It To 'Em Kill two or more enemies with a single sticky grenade.

20.4%

I Hope You Didn't Tea-bag Win a duel.

22.8%

Tales From The Eridian Slab Decipher all of the Eridian Slabs.

24.4%

Mechani-Cool Unlock 10 Vehicle Parts via hijacking.

26.4%

Stay Golden

26.7%

Tips Appreciated Tip Moxxi.

27.4%

Biggest Badass In The Borderlands Reach level 50.

27.6%

À La Carte Complete 20 Side Missions.

30.3%

Bye, Felicia!

35.2%

I Am A Goddess, A Glorious Female Warrior

35.8%

Damn, Gina

35.8%

On Fleek Equip purple-rated gear or better in every slot.

36%

Apocalypso!

37%

Cross The Streamers

38.6%

Stay Away From The Light Revive another player.

39.4%

Heir To An Empty Castle

39.9%

Dropping Loads Win a live grenade at a Slot Machine.

42%

That Was Cold

45.1%

Bolt-Ons Unlock 10 Character Heads or Skins.

47.1%

Vaulting Your Way To The Top Reach level 25.

47.4%

Gone From My Sight

48.9%

I Mustache You A Question

51.3%

Feelin' A Little Stabby Kill an enemy, knifing them with a gun blade.

58%

Florida Man

58.3%

NOG It Off

62.1%

Star Bound Reach level 10.

69.1%

So Long, Pandora!

71%

Barreled Right Over Them Kill an enemy with an exploding barrel.

81%

Welcome To The Crimson Raiders

92.3%

You Got Skills Reach level 2.

94.1%

Share of Steam players who unlocked each achievement.

Borderlands 3 2019

About

Story

How long to beat Borderlands 3

More in the Borderlands series

From the people behind Borderlands 3

Games like Borderlands 3

Cast and crew

Crew

Awards

Media

Releases

PC and Steam Deck

Will it run on my PC?

Borderlands 3 player count

Borderlands 3 achievements

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