Single-player games like Need for Speed™ Heat
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Need for Speed™ Heat, ranked by player overlap. Every pick carries Steam's Single-player category, so multiplayer-only titles or always-online games don't sneak in. imho.run pulls the category data from Steam directly — Single-player here matches what the store labels.
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Ranked picks
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Forza Horizon 5
Single-player alternative to Need for Speed™ Heat — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Sports with Need for Speed™ Heat.
Explore the vibrant open world landscapes of Mexico with limitless, fun driving action in the world’s greatest cars.
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Need for Speed™ Unbound
Single-player alternative to Need for Speed™ Heat — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Racing with Need for Speed™ Heat.
Race to the top, definitely don’t flop. Outsmart the cops, and enter weekly qualifiers for The Grand: the ultimate street race. Pack your garage with precision-tuned, custom rides, and light up the streets with your style.
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Need for Speed™ Payback
Single-player alternative to Need for Speed™ Heat — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Sports with Need for Speed™ Heat.
Set in the underworld of Fortune Valley, you and your crew were divided by betrayal and reunited by revenge to take down The House, a nefarious cartel that rules the city’s casinos, criminals and cops. In this corrupt gambler’s paradise, the stakes are high and The House always wins.
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The Crew™ 2
Single-player alternative to Need for Speed™ Heat — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Racing with Need for Speed™ Heat.
Take on the American motorsports scene as you explore and dominate the land, air, and sea across the entire USA. New: play The Crew 2 offline or online with the new Hybrid mode, available now!
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Burnout™ Paradise Remastered
Single-player alternative to Need for Speed™ Heat — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Need for Speed™ Heat.
Burnout Paradise Remastered provides the ultimate driving playground for you and your friends to play online. This remaster includes all add-ons from the Year of Paradise, including the Big Surf Island update, meticulously recreated and ready to wreck in 4K.
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Midnight Club 2
Single-player alternative to Need for Speed™ Heat — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Racing with Need for Speed™ Heat.
The world's most notorious drivers meet each night on the streets of LA, Paris, and Tokyo. Choose from a collection of performance-enhanced cars or bikes and compete head-to-head to make a name for yourself. There are no rules. Drive anywhere in the city. Find the fastest route to win.
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Tokyo Xtreme Racer
Single-player alternative to Need for Speed™ Heat — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Racing with Need for Speed™ Heat.
The title of “fastest” never fades. Race through the sealed future Tokyo night highways in your customized car. Defeat rivals in “SP Battle,” where drivers clash by draining Spirit Points. A unique racing game where only the rules for victory matter.
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Split/Second
Single-player alternative to Need for Speed™ Heat — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Racing with Need for Speed™ Heat.
Split/Second is an intense action racing game set within a reality TV show. Competitors vie to be the first to the finish line in a set rigged to blow. Players don’t just collide with other vehicles to knock them from the track, but can also trigger devastating events that alter the race dynamics.
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Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit
Single-player alternative to Need for Speed™ Heat — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Racing with Need for Speed™ Heat.
Need for Speed Hot Pursuit launches you into a new open-world landscape behind the wheel of the world's fastest and most beautiful cars. From Criterion, the award-winning studio behind the Burnout series, Hot Pursuit will redefine racing games for a whole new generation.
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Need for Speed™ Most Wanted
Single-player alternative to Need for Speed™ Heat — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Need for Speed™ Heat.
The open-world action in Need for Speed Most Wanted gives you the freedom to drive your way. Hit jumps and shortcuts, switch cars, lie low or head for terrain that plays to your vehicle’s unique strengths. Fight your way past cops and rivals using skill, high-end car tech and tons of nitrous.
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Need for Speed Undercover
Single-player alternative to Need for Speed™ Heat — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Racing with Need for Speed™ Heat.
You never thought it would turn out like this. An all-out chase where you're the hunted. And the hunter. Now you must get behind the wheel and risk everything to infiltrate a ruthless international crime syndicate and take them down.
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Need for Speed™
Single-player alternative to Need for Speed™ Heat — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Need for Speed™ Heat.
Ready to own the streets? Get behind the wheel of iconic cars and floor it through Ventura Bay, a sprawling urban playground. Explore overlapping stories as you build your reputation – and your dream car – and become the ultimate racing icon.
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Red Dead Redemption 2
Single-player alternative to Need for Speed™ Heat — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Need for Speed™ Heat.
Arthur Morgan and the Van der Linde Gang are outlaws on the run. With federal agents and bounty hunters massing on their heels, the gang must rob, steal, and fight their way across the rugged heartland in order to survive.
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Need for Speed: Shift
Single-player alternative to Need for Speed™ Heat — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Racing with Need for Speed™ Heat.
Need for Speed™ SHIFT is an award-winning authentic racing game that combines the true driver’s experience with real-world physics, pixel-perfect car models, and a wide range of authentic race tracks. Need for Speed SHIFT takes players in a different direction to create a simulation experience that replicates the true feeling of driving...
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Sonic Generations Collection
Single-player alternative to Need for Speed™ Heat — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Need for Speed™ Heat.
Celebrate 20 years of Sonic in an all new adventure that delivers a definitive experience to Sonic fans new and old!
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Mafia III: Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Need for Speed™ Heat — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Need for Speed™ Heat.
After Lincoln Clay's surrogate family, the black mob, is betrayed and killed by the Italian Mafia, Lincoln builds a new family and blazes a path of revenge through the Mafioso responsible.