Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel similar games & best alternatives

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Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel

PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Linux, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch • 2014

Should you play it?

Launch into the Borderlands universe and shoot ‘n’ loot your way through a brand new adventure that rockets you onto Pandora’s moon in Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel!

What works

  • Fun cooperative multiplayer
  • Unique low gravity and oxygen mechanics
  • Engaging story about handsome jack
  • Varied character skill trees
  • Vibrant sci-fi art style and humor

Things to keep in mind

  • Repetitive and confusing level design
  • Shorter campaign than borderlands 2
  • Some technical bugs and glitches
  • Limited innovation beyond borderlands 2 formula
  • Overpriced at full price, better on sale

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • The Darkness II

  • Contra: Operation Galuga

  • Toukiden 2

  • Zombie Army 4: Dead War

  • Abyssus

  • Aliens: Fireteam Elite

More value-seeking

Games that feels like Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel but with a stronger sense of value for your time

  • Borderlands 2

  • Dead Effect 2 VR

  • Mycopunk

  • Deep Rock Galactic

  • Borderlands Game of the Year Enhanced

  • Mass Effect™: Andromeda Deluxe Edition

More competitive

Games that feels like Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel but with more competition against others

  • Halo: The Master Chief Collection

  • Shatterline

  • Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2

  • Destiny 2

  • Granblue Fantasy: Versus

  • Last Flag

Less intimate

Games that feels like Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel but with less focus on close relationships

  • Atlas Fallen: Reign Of Sand

  • Warhammer 40,000: Darktide

  • Dying Light 2 Stay Human: Reloaded Edition

  • Solo Leveling: ARISE OVERDRIVE

  • Serious Sam: Siberian Mayhem

  • DAIMON BLADES

Choose your own criteria ->

From the same developer

From the same developer, ranked by motivational fit.

  • Borderlands 2

  • Borderlands Game of the Year Enhanced

  • Borderlands 3

  • BioShock™ 2 Remastered

  • Duke Nukem 3D: 20th Anniversary World Tour

Similarity map

How to compare these games

Compare nearby games

Each card is a nearby game on the similarity map, compared with Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel. Swipe sideways to move between games. Titles already listed in What to play next are left out.

  • Cover and title: open that game’s page.
  • What works / keep in mind: the same highlights as the desktop comparison panel.
  • Bars: the main motivational differences versus this game.
How to use the graph

Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Swipe to compare nearby games with Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel. These titles are not in What to play next.

Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel: Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Cooperation, Fellowship, Intimacy, Leadership. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Violence. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Value, Leadership.

Last update: 21/08/2026