The Best Order To Play All The Borderlands Games

The franchise is known for starting the looter shooter genre, or at least known for making it popular with literally billions of guns to choose from. And with as many games as this series has, it can be difficult to know what order to play them all. There is the main series trilogy, a couple of spin-off shooters, and two graphic adventure titles. In total, that makes seven games in the franchise, excluding expansions and DLC, which should be played with the corresponding base game.

There are a few things to take into account when choosing the order to play the games. Players can choose to play the games in chronological order, but that presents a few issues from a story perspective. For instance, there are story spoilers for in, despite most of the game taking place beforehand. Gameplay should also be taken into account, since starting with the latest game can make the first few titles feel clunky in comparison and thus harder to get through.

Borderlands 2 is a game about teamwork, but those who wish to adventure alone may struggle to pick the best character on the roster for solo play.

The first game provides context and the beginning of tropes later used throughout the series. For instance, introduces the idea of corporations coming to Pandora, with Atlas being the first, main villainous entity, to open Vaults in search of treasure. These Vaults and the Vault Hunters looking to open them are the center of the entire franchise and the first bunch introduced here are used throughout the series, so meeting them here is the best way to experience their story.

didn't always have its cel-shaded art style. In a 2008 E3 demo, the game had a more realistic aesthetic, but looked quite generic, so the style drastically switched.

The first game introduced the series' famed cel-shaded aesthetic and looter shooter gameplay. As the first to do so,the game is quite clunky by today's standards, and it is best to play this first so that this feeling of clunkiness isn't