One of 2025's largest upcoming games is Borderlands 4 — the next mainline entry in Gearbox Software's long-running, highly popular co-op looter shooter franchise, and also its first game since 2022's Tiny Tina's Wonderlands spinoff. With an entirely new planet, story, colossal arsenal of guns to collect, and cast of Vault Hunters, it has the potential to be one of the year's best games. But tragically, over half of the entire userbase on the PC gaming platform Steam may not even be able to play it.
That revelation came when Borderlands 4's price was finally revealed on Monday, as its PC system requirements were listed on Steam at the same time. The minimum requirements in general are quite demanding — notably, you'll need at least NVIDIA's RTX 2070 or AMD's RX 5700 XT for your GPU, along with 16GB of RAM and 100GB of SSD space — but the real killer is the minimum demand for a CPU with eight cores or more.
