Single-player games like Need for Speed™ Most Wanted
Below are 19 single-player Steam games similar to Need for Speed™ Most Wanted, 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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Need for Speed™ Rivals
Single-player alternative to Need for Speed™ Most Wanted — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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
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Need for Speed™ Hot Pursuit Remastered
Single-player alternative to Need for Speed™ Most Wanted — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Burnout™ Paradise Remastered
Single-player alternative to Need for Speed™ Most Wanted — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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FlatOut 2
Single-player alternative to Need for Speed™ Most Wanted — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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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Wreckfest
Single-player alternative to Need for Speed™ Most Wanted — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Need for Speed™ Most Wanted.
Wreckfest is a demolition derby themed racing game with soft-body damage modeling, sophisticated driving dynamics and in-depth vehicle upgrading, featuring both demolition derbies and more traditional track races. It’s all about fun, breakneck racing and over-the-top crashes.
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TrackMania² Stadium
Single-player alternative to Need for Speed™ Most Wanted — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Racing with Need for Speed™ Most Wanted.
TrackMania² Stadium is the return of the popular Stadium environment enjoyed by millions of players with TrackMania Nations Forever. Now part of the ManiaPlanet environment, Stadium allows for improved services around the game, better graphics and a powerful track editor.
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Little Racers STREET
Single-player alternative to Need for Speed™ Most Wanted — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Racing with Need for Speed™ Most Wanted.
Little Racers STREET fuses the fun-oriented simplicity of top-down racing games with the excitement of street racing, and the results couldn't be better!
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F1® 24
Single-player alternative to Need for Speed™ Most Wanted — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Racing with Need for Speed™ Most Wanted.
Join the grid and Be One of the 20. Drive like the greatest in EA SPORTS™ F1® 24, the official video game of the 2024 FIA Formula One World Championship™.
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Need for Speed™ Heat
Single-player alternative to Need for Speed™ Most Wanted — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Need for Speed™
Single-player alternative to Need for Speed™ Most Wanted — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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The Crew™ 2
Single-player alternative to Need for Speed™ Most Wanted — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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!
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Forza Horizon 4
Single-player alternative to Need for Speed™ Most Wanted — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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L.A. Noire
Single-player alternative to Need for Speed™ Most Wanted — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Single-player alternative to Need for Speed™ Most Wanted — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
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.
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Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Need for Speed™ Most Wanted — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Need for Speed™ Most Wanted.
The Definitive Edition of the critically acclaimed, award winning open-world action adventure, reworked, rebuilt and re-mastered for the new generation. With all previously available DLC included and a wealth of tech and visual improvements, Hong Kong has never felt so alive.
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Prey
Single-player alternative to Need for Speed™ Most Wanted — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Need for Speed™ Unbound
Single-player alternative to Need for Speed™ Most Wanted — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box
Single-player alternative to Need for Speed™ Most Wanted — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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TrickStyle
Single-player alternative to Need for Speed™ Most Wanted — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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!