Games like Need for Speed™ Most Wanted
If Need for Speed™ Most Wanted is your kind of game, the closest matches are Need for Speed™ Rivals, Need for Speed™ and Burnout™ Paradise Remastered — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, epic and intense. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →Need for Speed Most Wanted (2020) is an open-world arcade racer from Criterion Games that combines action, adventure, and competitive driving mechanics. The game centers on a car collection system with pro-mod unllocks, drift-focused handling, and freeroam exploration across a sprawling map. Players and reviewers describe the experience as challenging, epic, intense, and nostalgic, noting that drifting feels effortless and satisfying while cars unlock without excessive grinding. Fast-paced chaotic driving delivers what players call pure fun, and online multiplayer ranks participants against others via leaderboards. The game runs at a normal difficulty with medium-length sessions and supports online co-op. Currently priced at $4.99, it holds a 75% positive rating from over 8,100 Steam reviews and is marked playable on Steam Deck.
About Need for Speed™ Most Wanted: 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™ Rivals
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Need for Speed™ Most Wanted.
Top pick for Need for Speed™ Most Wanted fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Need for Speed™ Most Wanted.
Erase the line between single player and multiplayer in this street-racing rivalry between Cops and Racers. Seamlessly join a world where your friends are already racing and chasing
Need for Speed™
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Need for Speed™ Most Wanted.
Second-strongest match for Need for Speed™ Most Wanted fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Need for Speed™ Most Wanted.
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.
Burnout™ Paradise Remastered
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Need for Speed™ Most Wanted.
Third-strongest match for Need for Speed™ Most Wanted fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Need for Speed™ Most Wanted.
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.
Need for Speed™ Payback
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Need for Speed™ Most Wanted.
Ranked #4 for Need for Speed™ Most Wanted fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Need for Speed™ Most Wanted.
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.
Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Need for Speed™ Most Wanted.
Ranked #5 for Need for Speed™ Most Wanted fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Racing with Need for Speed™ Most Wanted.
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.
Diesel Guns
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Need for Speed™ Most Wanted.
Ranked #6 for Need for Speed™ Most Wanted fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Racing with Need for Speed™ Most Wanted.
"Diesel Guns"- is an Arcade Multiplayer Online Car Combat (AMOCC) game set to deliver the same thrill you remember from classic AMOCCs like „Twisted Metal“ and „Vigilante 8“.
Need for Speed™ Hot Pursuit Remastered
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Need for Speed™ Most Wanted.
Ranked #7 for Need for Speed™ Most Wanted fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Racing with Need for Speed™ Most Wanted.
Feel the thrill of the chase and the rush of escape behind the wheels of the world’s hottest high-performance cars in Need for Speed™ Hot Pursuit Remastered– a heart-pumping, socially competitive racing experience.
FlatOut 2
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Need for Speed™ Most Wanted.
Ranked #8 for Need for Speed™ Most Wanted fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Racing with Need for Speed™ Most Wanted.
Experience the drive of your life as you throw yourself around on and off the track causing fences to shatter, tyre walls explode, water tanks and barrels fly across the track into other cars.
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Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Need for Speed™ Most Wanted.
Reviewers of Need for Speed™ Most Wanted cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Racing with Need for Speed™ Most Wanted.
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.
Need for Speed™ Heat
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Need for Speed™ Most Wanted.
Reviewers of Need for Speed™ Most Wanted cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Need for Speed™ Most Wanted.
Hustle by day and risk it all at night in Need for Speed™ Heat Deluxe Edition, a white-knuckle street racer, where the lines of the law fade as the sun starts to set.
Need for Speed™
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Need for Speed™ Most Wanted.
Reviewers of Need for Speed™ Most Wanted cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Need for Speed™ Most Wanted.
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.
The Crew™ 2
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Need for Speed™ Most Wanted.
Reviewers of Need for Speed™ Most Wanted cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Racing with Need for Speed™ Most Wanted.
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!
Forza Horizon 4
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Need for Speed™ Most Wanted.
Reviewers of Need for Speed™ Most Wanted cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Racing with Need for Speed™ Most Wanted.
Dynamic seasons change everything at the world’s greatest automotive festival. Go it alone or team up with others to explore beautiful and historic Britain in a shared open world.
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Need for Speed™ Most Wanted.
Reviewers of Need for Speed™ Most Wanted cross-mention this title as a similar play.
You are Geralt of Rivia, mercenary monster slayer. Before you stands a war-torn, monster-infested continent you can explore at will. Your current contract? Tracking down Ciri — the Child of Prophecy, a living weapon that can alter the shape of the world.
L.A. Noire
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Need for Speed™ Most Wanted cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Need for Speed™ Most Wanted.
In his fight to climb the ranks and do what's right, LAPD detective Cole Phelps must unravel the truth behind a string of arson attacks, conspiracies, and brutal murders, battling the L.A. underworld and even members of his own department.
Prey
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Need for Speed™ Most Wanted cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Need for Speed™ Most Wanted.
In Prey, you awaken aboard Talos I, a space station orbiting the moon in the year 2032. You are the key subject of an experiment meant to alter humanity forever – but things have gone terribly wrong. The space station has been overrun by hostile aliens and you are now being hunted.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Need for Speed™ Most Wanted at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Need for Speed™ Most Wanted on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Need for Speed™ Most Wanted.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Need for Speed™ Most Wanted on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Need for Speed™ Most Wanted.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Need for Speed™ Most Wanted on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Need for Speed™ Most Wanted.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Need for Speed™ Most Wanted on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Need for Speed™ Most Wanted.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
STAR WARS™ Republic Commando™
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Need for Speed™ Most Wanted on Steam right now. Shares Action with Need for Speed™ Most Wanted.
You are the leader of an elite squad of Republic Commandos, your mission is to infiltrate, dominate, and ultimately, annihilate the enemy. Your squad will follow your orders and your lead, working together as a team - instinctively, intelligently, instantly. You are their leader. They are your weapon.
STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy™
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Need for Speed™ Most Wanted on Steam right now. Shares Action with Need for Speed™ Most Wanted.
Forge your weapon and follow the path of the Jedi Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy is the latest installment of the highly acclaimed Jedi Knight series. Take on the role of a new student eager to learn the ways of the Force from Jedi Master Luke Skywalker.
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Need for Speed™ Most Wanted on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Need for Speed™ Most Wanted.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
The NOexistenceN of you AND me
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Need for Speed™ Most Wanted on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Need for Speed™ Most Wanted.
Use "game" as a medium to showcase the world of "you/girl". Explore the truth of "you/girl/world" through the form of a "visual novel".
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Need for Speed™ Most Wanted.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Need for Speed™ Most Wanted.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Need for Speed™ Most Wanted.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Need for Speed™ Most Wanted.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Need for Speed™ Most Wanted.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Need for Speed™ Most Wanted.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
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Need for Speed™ Unbound
WHY THIS
Another title from Criterion Games, the studio behind Need for Speed™ Most Wanted. Shares Action and Racing with Need for Speed™ Most Wanted.
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.
Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Need for Speed™ Most Wanted.
Another title from Criterion Games, the studio behind Need for Speed™ Most Wanted. Shares Racing with Need for Speed™ Most Wanted.
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.
Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Need for Speed™ Most Wanted.
Another title from Criterion Games, the studio behind Need for Speed™ Most Wanted. Shares Racing with Need for Speed™ Most Wanted.
Download Burnout™ Paradise: The Ultimate Box today. Paradise City is the largest and most dangerous setting yet for the best-selling Burnout series. The massive setting gives players an open-ended world to explore, as they race their vehicles through hundreds of miles of roads and underground passages with more than 70 different cars.
Need for Speed™ Rivals
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Need for Speed™ Most Wanted.
Another title from Criterion Games, the studio behind Need for Speed™ Most Wanted. Shares Action and Adventure with Need for Speed™ Most Wanted.
Erase the line between single player and multiplayer in this street-racing rivalry between Cops and Racers. Seamlessly join a world where your friends are already racing and chasing
Burnout™ Paradise Remastered
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Need for Speed™ Most Wanted.
Another title from Criterion Games, the studio behind Need for Speed™ Most Wanted. Shares Action and Adventure with Need for Speed™ Most Wanted.
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.
TrickStyle
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Need for Speed™ Most Wanted.
Another title from Criterion Games, the studio behind Need for Speed™ Most Wanted. Shares Action and Racing with Need for Speed™ Most Wanted.
Grab your board, surf through the air, show your stuff, and win eternal glory with your off-the-chain skills. Re-Live this Dreamcast Classic Today!
Frequently asked about Need for Speed™ Most Wanted
- Does Need for Speed™ Most Wanted run on Steam Deck?
- Need for Speed™ Most Wanted is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Need for Speed™ Most Wanted cost?
- Need for Speed™ Most Wanted is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Need for Speed™ Most Wanted have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Need for Speed™ Most Wanted supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, PvP).
- What games are most similar to Need for Speed™ Most Wanted?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Need for Speed™ Most Wanted are Need for Speed™ Rivals, Need for Speed™, Burnout™ Paradise Remastered.
- Who developed Need for Speed™ Most Wanted?
- Need for Speed™ Most Wanted was developed by Criterion Games and published by Electronic Arts.
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