Borderlands 4 release date for Nintendo Switch 2 confirmed

Co-op action in Borderlands 4

Borderlands 4 will launch on Nintendo Switch 2 on October 3, 2025, developer Gearbox Software and publisher 2K Games have announced. The co-op action role-playing game is all set to arrive on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC (via Steam and Epic Games Store) on September 12.

Gearbox Entertainment head Randy Pitchford confirmed the release date for the Nintendo Switch 2 version of Borderlands 4 in a video post on X.

Borderlands 4 is set on a fictional planet of Kairos and features four new Vault Hunters. Kairos is a vast world teeming with warring factions. It features “lush fields, towering peaks, and deadly deserts full of fearsome enemies.”

In the latest co-op looter shooter in the Borderlands franchise, you’ll play on the side of the resistance that takes up arms against the Timekeeper, a ruthless dictator. The Timekeeper, with his Order, rules over the people of Kairos from Dominion City. They are implanted with a Bolt, a spine-grafted cybernetic device that helps the Timekeeper dominate them. The Vault Hunters crash land on the hidden planet and are arrested. They are then forcibly implanted with the Bolt, which traps them on Kairos.

Borderlands 4: Co-op gameplay, new weapons and traversal mechanics
Borderlands 4 supports up to four players in online co-op, just like its predecessor. It comes with a split-screen mode for two players. But if you would rather have a solo adventure, then that can be had, too.

The game comes with “an all-new arsenal of outrageous weaponry.” New traversal mechanics have been added to the fast-paced action shooter that will allow players to “move across the Borderlands like never before—double jumping, gliding, dodging, fixed-point grappling, and more—dealing death from every direction,” the developers said earlier.