Borderlands 3 Chapters & Missions List: How Long to Beat

Borderlands 3 has finally been released for PC and consoles, officially marking the return of the popular looter shooter franchise from Gearbox Software. Before you can get to the end game grind and start farming bosses for those sweet Legendary tier drops, though, first you’ll need to beat the story campaign. Here’s how long Borderlands 3 is, and how many missions and chapters there are.

Borderlands 3 Chapters and Missions List

Without getting into spoiler territory, Borderlands 3’s story campaign features a total of 23 chapters. In our playthrough, we managed to beat the campaign in around 25 hours, while also dabbling in a few side missions along the way.

If you’re planning on seeing everything the game has to offer, you’ll almost certainly spend more than 30 hours just checking out the open world and all the available side missions.

We’ve included a list of all the chapter and mission names in the story campaign down below. Do be warned that some of the later mission names might be a tad spoiler-y, however, so look away if you want to go in completely fresh.

1. Children of the Vault
2. From the Ground Up
3. Cult Following
4. Taking Flight
5. Sanctuary
6. Hostile Takeover
7. The Impending Storm
8. Space-Laser Tag
9. Atlas, At Last
10. Beneath the Meridian
11. Hammerlocked
12. Lair of the Harpy
13. The Guns of Reliance
14. The Family Jewel
15. Going Rogue
16. Cold as the Grave
17. Blood Drive
18. Angels and Speed Demons
19. The Great Vault
20. The First Vault Hunter
21. Footsteps of Giants
22. In the Shadow of Starlight
23. Divine Retribution

Of course, once you’ve beaten the story in Borderlands 3, there’s still going to be more to do.

For starters, Mayhem Mode will become available for players who want to keep farming loot in their first playthrough, and True Vault Hunter Mode will also be there for players looking to start new game plus.

That’s all you need to know about the main missions and chapters in Borderlands 3. Be sure to check our Borderlands 3 guide wiki for more tips and information on the game.

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About the author

Zhiqing Wan

Zhiqing is the Reviews Editor for Twinfinite, and a History graduate from Singapore. She's been in the games media industry for nine years, trawling through showfloors, conferences, and spending a ridiculous amount of time making in-depth spreadsheets for min-max-y RPGs. When she's not singing the praises of Amazon's Kindle as the greatest technological invention of the past two decades, you can probably find her in a FromSoft rabbit hole.

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