Mobile game · 2012

Borderlands 2

A new era of shoot and loot is about to begin. Play as one of four new vault hunters facing off against a massive new world of creatures, psychos and the evil mastermind, Handsome Jack. Make new friends, arm them with a bazillion weapons and fight alongside them in 4 player co-op on a relentless quest for revenge and redemption across the undiscovered and unpredictable living planet.

Estimated daily players

~870,0000.0%

Range 64K–7M

Estimated total players

~17,000,0000.0%

Range 6.4M–46M

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Estimates, not counts — nobody publishes real player numbers for mobile games, so these are modelled from public signals. How we work them out

Sep 18, 2012AndroidGRAC 18ACB MA15+USK 18CERO ZESRB RPPEGI AO

Role-playing (RPG)Shooter Action Comedy Open world Sandbox Science fiction

Get the game

Google Play

What the estimate rests on

Steam 58%
Reddit 16%
YouTube 16%
Twitch 11%

Player estimates

Nobody publishes how many people play Borderlands 2, so these figures are modelled from the public counts on Steam, Reddit, YouTube, Twitch. Each count stands in a roughly known ratio to a population — one Play rating per ~45 players, one Steam review per ~35 owners — and the estimates below combine those readings, weighted by how much each source can be trusted to speak for the whole game. Read the range as the answer and the headline as its middle.

Estimated daily players

~870,000

0.0%

Range 64K – 7M

Built from the live counts: Steam concurrents, Discord and Reddit members online, Twitch viewers.

Estimated total players

~17,000,000

0.0%

Range 6.4M – 46M

Everyone who has ever played, from the cumulative counts: store ratings and installs, Steam reviews, members and subscribers.

Estimated total players over time

2 readings · last 2 days

Estimated daily players over time

from live counts

Average estimated players per month

Mean estimated total players for Borderlands 2 per calendar month, newest first
Month	Estimated total players	Change
August 2026	~16,000,000	—

Community activity

Last checked Aug 9, 2026

Store signals

How many people have rated, reviewed or installed Borderlands 2 where it is sold.

Steam players in game

2,582

Reviews: 311,874

First reading taken Aug 9, 2026 — the chart appears once there are two.

Community signals

How many people gather around Borderlands 2 outside the stores — members, subscribers and live viewers.

Reddit members

251,330

0.0%

YouTube subscribers

428,000

First reading taken Aug 9, 2026 — the chart appears once there are two.

Twitch viewers

149

Live channels: 16

First reading taken Aug 9, 2026 — the chart appears once there are two.

Not tracked for Borderlands 2: Google Play, App Store, Discord. A platform appears here once the game has a link to it — most mobile games have no Steam port or subreddit, so a gap is normal rather than a sign the game is small.

Storyline

Five years after the events of Borderlands, a valuable mineral called "Eridium" starts flourishing through Pandora's crust. Handsome Jack, the leader of the Hyperion Corporation, secures this new resource and uses it to rule over Pandora with an iron fist. Meanwhile, rumors of an even larger Vault hidden on Pandora spread across the galaxy, drawing a new group of Vault Hunters to the planet in search of it.

Trailers

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Frequently asked questions

How many people play Borderlands 2?

We estimate that about 17,000,000 people have played Borderlands 2 — plausibly between 6.4M and 46M. Around 870,000 of them play on a given day, in a range of 64K and 7M. Both figures are modelled from public counts on Steam, Reddit, YouTube and Twitch rather than published by the developer, so read them as a scale rather than as a headcount.

Is Borderlands 2 still active?

Yes. Borderlands 2 is holding steady — it measured within a percent of where it was a week ago. We recheck every source daily, and the charts on this page show each platform's readings over time.

How are the Borderlands 2 player estimates worked out?

Nobody publishes player counts for mobile games, so we infer them. Each public count we can read is converted into a population using a documented ratio — roughly one Google Play rating per 45 people who played, one Steam review per 35 owners, one Discord member per 40 players — and the live counts (Steam concurrents, members online, Twitch viewers) are converted the same way into a daily figure. Those separate estimates are then averaged in proportion to how much each source can be trusted, which is why sources that disagree widen the published range instead of cancelling out. This page is built on 2 readings taken since August 8, 2026.