How many people are playing Borderlands 2 right now?

Borderlands 2 has 3,185 players on Steam right now, with a 24-hour peak of 3,823 and an all-time peak of 123,596 on Sept 2012.

What is the all-time peak player count of Borderlands 2?

123,596 concurrent players on Sept 2012.

When was Borderlands 2 released on Steam?

Borderlands 2 was released on Steam on 17 Sep 2012.

Borderlands 2 Reviews

Steam user reviews · 312,242 written

Updated 17 hours ago

SteamPeaks Rating

89.7

Very positive · recent 83.4

Positive share

89.5%Very Positive

Last 30 days

87.1%−2.4 pts

381 reviews written

Played before writing

28.6 h

Median of 600 sampled reviews

Reviews per day

Mean over the last 30 days

How sentiment moved · share of new reviews that were positive

169 months on record

Positive shareReviews writtenLifetime shareDrag across the chart to zoom · double-click to reset

Data by SteamPeaks.com

Buckets that broke from the game’s own habit, on unusual volume

Review waves

Judged against the median month, not the average

When	Kind	Reviews	Positive	Against habit	What followed
May 2025 – Jun 2025	negative wave	11,637 · 10.9×	17.7%	−77 pts	Sentiment had not recovered by the next bucket
Apr 2019	negative wave	6,186 · 7.0×	54.4%	−40 pts	Sentiment had not recovered by the next bucket
Mar 2020	negative wave	4,112 · 4.6×	72.2%	−22 pts	Sentiment returned to normal in the next bucket

600 recent reviews sampled · back to 10 Aug 2026

Who is reviewing

Playtime at the moment each review was written

30.6 h

Median before a positive review

20.1 h

Median before a negative review

55%

Bought the game on Steam

23% arrived with a free key

Played mostly on Steam Deck

Hours played	Positive	Negative	Positive share
Under 1 h	9	14	39%
1–5 h	64	15	81%
5–20 h	143	18	89%
20–50 h	101	18	85%
50–100 h	80	9	90%
Over 100 h	109	20	84%

Steam’s own totals per language

Where opinion splits

Against the lifetime share

Language	Reviews	Positive	Against overall
English	178,832	90.3%	+0.7 pts
Chinese, simplified	30,308	75.5%	−14.0 pts
Russian	18,247	89.6%	+0.1 pts
Spanish	16,638	94.2%	+4.7 pts
Portuguese, Brazil	13,269	94.3%	+4.8 pts
Spanish, Latin America	2,482	89.5%	−0.0 pts

Counted from the review histogram

Milestones

Days from the first reviewed month

Milestone	Reached	Days taken
1,000 reviews	Nov 2012	61
10,000 reviews	Jan 2014	487
100,000 reviews	Jun 2019	2,464

Every month since Sept 2012

Review history

Exact counts from Valve’s histogram

Month	Reviews	Positive	Negative	Positive share
Sept 2026	52	47	5	90.4%
Aug 2026	412	360	52	87.4%
Jul 2026	456	396	60	86.8%
Jun 2026	411	367	44	89.3%
May 2026	406	364	42	89.7%
Apr 2026	431	392	39	91.0%
Mar 2026	437	394	43	90.2%
Feb 2026	399	365	34	91.5%

Counts per month and per day come from Valve’s review histogram, so they are exact. Playtime, purchase and language detail come from a sample of the most recent reviews; we keep no reviewer identity and no review text. The SteamPeaks Rating is a confidence-adjusted positive share. How it is computed