Single-player games like Need for Speed: Shift
Below are 19 single-player Steam games similar to Need for Speed: Shift, 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: Hot Pursuit
Single-player alternative to Need for Speed: Shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Racing with Need for Speed: Shift.
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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Shift 2 Unleashed
Single-player alternative to Need for Speed: Shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Racing with Need for Speed: Shift.
Bring the true driver’s experience to life with all the intensity and exhilaration of being behind the wheel!
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Need for Speed Undercover
Single-player alternative to Need for Speed: Shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Racing with Need for Speed: Shift.
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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Project CARS
Single-player alternative to Need for Speed: Shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Racing with Need for Speed: Shift.
THE ULTIMATE DRIVER JOURNEY delivers the soul of motor racing in the world’s most beautiful, authentic, and technically-advanced racing game.
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Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box
Single-player alternative to Need for Speed: Shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Racing with Need for Speed: Shift.
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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DiRT 4
Single-player alternative to Need for Speed: Shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Racing with Need for Speed: Shift.
DiRT 4 is all about embracing fear. It’s about the thrill, exhilaration and adrenaline that is absolutely vital to off-road racing. It’s about loving the feeling of pushing flat out next to a sheer cliff drop, going for the gap that’s too small and seeing how much air you can get. Be Fearless.
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Assetto Corsa
Single-player alternative to Need for Speed: Shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Racing with Need for Speed: Shift.
Assetto Corsa v1.16 introduces the new "Laguna Seca" laser-scanned track, 7 new cars among which the eagerly awaited Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrifoglio! Check the changelog for further info!
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Assetto Corsa Competizione
Single-player alternative to Need for Speed: Shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Racing with Need for Speed: Shift.
Assetto Corsa Competizione, the official GT World Challenge videogame. Thanks to the extraordinary quality of simulation, you will experience the atmosphere of the GT3 championship. Compete against official drivers, teams, cars and official circuits reproduced to the highest quality ever seen.
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Project Motor Racing
Single-player alternative to Need for Speed: Shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Racing with Need for Speed: Shift.
All the passion, beauty & intensity of pro motorsport merging the most iconic cars & circuits with a new benchmark in handling performance.
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Wreckfest
Single-player alternative to Need for Speed: Shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
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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Screamer
Single-player alternative to Need for Speed: Shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Racing with Need for Speed: Shift.
High-octane action and anime aesthetics collide in this arcade racing game, featuring fighting mechanics and a storyline that hits hard. In this world, some race for glory while others seek power or revenge. Every race is a fight and every battle is personal.
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HOT WHEELS UNLEASHED™
Single-player alternative to Need for Speed: Shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Racing with Need for Speed: Shift.
Collect the best vehicles in the Hot Wheels™ universe, build spectacular tracks and dive into breathtaking races.
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TRAIL OUT
Single-player alternative to Need for Speed: Shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Racing with Need for Speed: Shift.
Welcome to the festival of explosive races, TRAIL OUT! Reckless racing around the world! Crashes, explosions, destruction, and screaming drivers!
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Rivals
Single-player alternative to Need for Speed: Shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
A deep and immersive narrative puzzle game.
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Project CARS 2
Single-player alternative to Need for Speed: Shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Racing with Need for Speed: Shift.
THE ULTIMATE DRIVER JOURNEY! Project CARS 2 delivers the soul of motor racing in the world’s most beautiful, authentic, and technically-advanced racing game.
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Project CARS 3
Single-player alternative to Need for Speed: Shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Racing with Need for Speed: Shift.
Journey from weekend warrior to racing legend & experience the thrill & emotion of authentic racing. Own, upgrade and personalise hundreds of cars, customise your driver, tailor every setting & play the way you want in YOUR Ultimate Driver Journey.
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Test Drive: Ferrari Racing Legends
Single-player alternative to Need for Speed: Shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Racing with Need for Speed: Shift.
Detailed physics underpin a huge variety of challenges set throughout the history of this landmark automotive brand. Painstakingly detailed cars and tracks reflect visceral damage as races wear on, an acute sense of speed communicates the power of these highly tuned vehicles, as advanced AI challenges even the most experienced driver.
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Project CARS - Pagani Edition
Single-player alternative to Need for Speed: Shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Racing with Need for Speed: Shift.
Project CARS - Pagani Edition
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FAST & FURIOUS CROSSROADS
Single-player alternative to Need for Speed: Shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Racing with Need for Speed: Shift.
Gear up for an epic new chapter in the Fast & Furious saga with high-speed heists, cinematic nonstop action, and adrenaline-fueled stunts in exotic locations. Join longtime family and a tough new crew to hunt down an international crime syndicate and bring them to street justice.