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If Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box is your kind of game, the closest matches are Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit, Burnout™ Paradise Remastered and TrackMania² Stadium — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its destruction is amazing, licensed music is memorable and cinematic. 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 →Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box is an open-world racing game developed by Criterion Games and published by Electronic Arts, released in 2009. Players explore Paradise City, a large environment featuring hundreds of miles of roads and underground passages. The game includes a destruction system, marked man events, road rage challenges, and stunt runs alongside its open-world racing structure. More than 70 licensed cars are available, and online cooperative multiplayer is supported. Players describe the experience as both relaxing and epic, with some noting the game has a cinematic quality and nostalgic appeal. Reviewers highlight the memorable licensed music and praise the map design and open-world structure for setting it apart. The game holds an 87 Metacritic score and 84% positive from over 4,000 Steam reviews. It is not supported on Steam Deck.
About Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box: 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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Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit
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Shares a cinematic mood with Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box.
Top pick for Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Racing with Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box.
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 Remastered
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Shares an epic mood with Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box.
Second-strongest match for Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Racing with Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box.
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.
TrackMania² Stadium
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Third-strongest match for Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Racing with Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box.
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.
Wreckfest
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Shares an epic mood with Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box.
Ranked #4 for Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
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.
Need for Speed Undercover
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Shares a nostalgic mood with Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box.
Ranked #5 for Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Racing with Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box.
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Street Legal 1: REVision
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Shares a nostalgic mood with Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box.
Ranked #6 for Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Racing with Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box.
Raw, unfiltered street racing, where high speeds are deadly, and every dent matters! REVision Edition of this 2002 bargain-bin classic brings countless bug fixes, optimizations, quality-of-life improvements, and optional gameplay extensions!
Need for Speed: Shift
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Ranked #7 for Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Racing with Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box.
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Shares a funny mood with Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box.
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Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit
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Shares a cinematic mood with Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box.
Reviewers of Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Racing with Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box.
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™ Most Wanted
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Shares an epic mood with Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box.
Reviewers of Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Racing with Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box.
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.
Wreckfest
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Shares an epic mood with Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box.
Reviewers of Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box cross-mention this title as a similar play.
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.
JDM: Japanese Drift Master
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Discover Japan’s legendary car culture in JDM! Take on challenging mountain roads, visit Japanese legendary drifting spots in licensed JDM cars and immerse in the story about second chances told through manga pages. Explore an open world where every turn invites you to master the art of drift.
Forza Horizon 4
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Shares an epic mood with Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box.
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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.
Split/Second
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Shares a cinematic mood with Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box.
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Street Racing Syndicate
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Shares a nostalgic mood with Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box.
Reviewers of Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Racing with Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box.
The raw, high-stakes world of illegal street racing comes to life in Street Racing Syndicate. Trick out over 40 authentic licensed cars with parts from over 15 real-world manufacturers, then turn your customized ride loose on the streets of 3 cities across the USA.
The Crew™
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Shares open world racing and a nostalgic mood with Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box.
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Another title from Criterion Games, the studio behind Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box. Shares Racing with Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box.
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Shares an epic mood with Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box.
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Shares a cinematic mood with Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box.
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Need for Speed™ Rivals
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Shares open world racing and an epic mood with Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box.
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Burnout™ Paradise Remastered
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Shares an epic mood with Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box.
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Frequently asked about Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box
- Does Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box work on Steam Deck?
- Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- Does Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player).
- What games are most similar to Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box are Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit, Burnout™ Paradise Remastered, TrackMania² Stadium.
- Who developed Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box?
- Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box was developed by Criterion Games and published by Electronic Arts.
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