Games like Borderlands
Closest overall match: Borderlands 2 (★ 4.0). Highest rated: Fallout: New Vegas at ★ 4.4. Quickest to finish: Overlord II at about 2 hours.
These 12 games score highest on our similarity model for Borderlands — weighted by shared tags, genre overlap, rating proximity and release era. The strongest common threads are Action RPG, First-Person and Open World. Updated Oct 16, 2026.
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78%
1. Borderlands 2
Shares Loot, Dark Humor, Action RPG, Comedy and Online Co-Op and 5 more tags; same developer.
- Year
- 2012
- Rating
- ★ 4.0
- Metacritic
- 89
- Playtime
- 11h
- Finish rate
- 65%
- Shared genres
- 2, 4, RPG
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76%
2. Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel
Shares Loot, Action RPG, Comedy, Online Co-Op and First-Person and 5 more tags; same developer.
- Year
- 2014
- Rating
- ★ 3.6
- Metacritic
- 75
- Playtime
- 6h
- Finish rate
- 63%
- Shared genres
- 2, 4, RPG
-
67%
3. Fallout: New Vegas
Shares Post-apocalyptic, Action RPG, First-Person, Open World and Partial Controller Support and 2 more tags; rated 0.6 higher; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2010
- Rating
- ★ 4.4
- Metacritic
- 84
- Playtime
- 12h
- Finish rate
- 73%
- Shared genres
- 2, 4, RPG
-
63%
4. Rage
Shares Post-apocalyptic, Online Co-Op, First-Person, Open World and Partial Controller Support and 3 more tags; rated 0.4 lower; about 5h shorter; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2011
- Rating
- ★ 3.4
- Metacritic
- 79
- Playtime
- 5h
- Finish rate
- 63%
- Shared genres
- 2, 4
-
61%
5. Tom Clancy’s The Division
Shares Post-apocalyptic, Online Co-Op, Open World, cooperative and Singleplayer; about 17h longer.
- Year
- 2016
- Rating
- ★ 3.7
- Metacritic
- 80
- Playtime
- 27h
- Finish rate
- 54%
- Shared genres
- 2, 4, RPG
-
61%
6. Duke Nukem Forever
Shares Dark Humor, Comedy, First-Person, Partial Controller Support and Steam Cloud and 2 more tags; same developer; rated 1.0 lower; about 7h shorter; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2011
- Rating
- ★ 2.9
- Metacritic
- 54
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 66%
- Shared genres
- 2, 4
-
61%
7. Fallout 3
Shares Post-apocalyptic, Action RPG, First-Person, Open World and Partial Controller Support and 1 more tags; about 6h shorter; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2008
- Rating
- ★ 4.1
- Metacritic
- 91
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 76%
- Shared genres
- 2, RPG
-
60%
8. Overlord II
Shares Dark Humor, Action RPG, Comedy, Open World and Singleplayer; about 8h shorter; same release year.
- Year
- 2009
- Rating
- ★ 3.8
- Metacritic
- 79
- Playtime
- 2h
- Finish rate
- 61%
- Shared genres
- 4, RPG
-
59%
9. Alpha Protocol
Shares Action RPG and Singleplayer; about 8h shorter; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2010
- Rating
- ★ 3.5
- Metacritic
- 72
- Playtime
- 2h
- Finish rate
- 67%
- Shared genres
- 2, 4, RPG
-
58%
10. Fallout 4
Shares Post-apocalyptic, Action RPG, First-Person, Open World and Steam Cloud and 2 more tags; about 28h longer.
- Year
- 2015
- Rating
- ★ 3.8
- Metacritic
- 84
- Playtime
- 38h
- Finish rate
- 63%
- Shared genres
- 4, RPG
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58%
11. Battleborn
Shares Action RPG, Comedy, Online Co-Op, First-Person and cooperative and 3 more tags; same developer; rated 1.1 lower; about 7h shorter.
- Year
- 2016
- Rating
- ★ 2.7
- Metacritic
- 69
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 19%
- Shared genres
- 2, 4
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57%
12. Dead Island
Rated 0.3 lower; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2011
- Rating
- ★ 3.5
- Metacritic
- 74
- Playtime
- 7h
- Finish rate
- 59%
- Shared genres
- 2, 4, RPG
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Questions people ask
What is the best game like Borderlands?
On our similarity model, Borderlands 2 is the closest match to Borderlands — shares Loot, Dark Humor, Action RPG, Comedy and Online Co-Op and 5 more tags; same developer.
Which game like Borderlands is rated highest?
Fallout: New Vegas holds the highest player rating in this list at 4.4/5 from 2,658 players.
How this list is built
Every game in our catalog is scored against Borderlands on five signals: weighted tag overlap (rare tags count more), genre overlap, platform family overlap, rating and playtime proximity, and release era. The list is recomputed nightly as ratings and new releases change.
Base game data via RAWG.