Games like Need for Speed: Shift
If Need for Speed: Shift is your kind of game, the closest matches are Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit, Shift 2 Unleashed and Need for Speed Undercover — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, grim and immersive. 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.
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Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Need for Speed: Shift.
Top pick for Need for Speed: Shift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. 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.
Shift 2 Unleashed
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Need for Speed: Shift.
Second-strongest match for Need for Speed: Shift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. 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!
Need for Speed Undercover
WHY THIS
Shares car customization and a challenging mood with Need for Speed: Shift.
Third-strongest match for Need for Speed: Shift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. 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.
Project CARS
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Need for Speed: Shift.
Ranked #4 for Need for Speed: Shift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. 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.
Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Need for Speed: Shift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. 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.
DiRT 4
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Need for Speed: Shift.
Ranked #6 for Need for Speed: Shift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. 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.
Assetto Corsa
WHY THIS
Shares car customization and an immersive mood with Need for Speed: Shift.
Ranked #7 for Need for Speed: Shift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. 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!
Assetto Corsa Competizione
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Need for Speed: Shift.
Ranked #8 for Need for Speed: Shift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. 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.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Need for Speed: Shift
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Project Motor Racing
WHY THIS
Shares car customization and a challenging mood with Need for Speed: Shift.
Reviewers of Need for Speed: Shift cross-mention this title as a similar play. 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.
Wreckfest
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Need for Speed: Shift.
Reviewers of Need for Speed: Shift 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.
Screamer
WHY THIS
Shares car customization and an intense mood with Need for Speed: Shift.
Reviewers of Need for Speed: Shift cross-mention this title as a similar play. 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.
Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Need for Speed: Shift.
Reviewers of Need for Speed: Shift cross-mention this title as a similar play. 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.
Shift 2 Unleashed
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Need for Speed: Shift.
Reviewers of Need for Speed: Shift cross-mention this title as a similar play. 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!
HOT WHEELS UNLEASHED™
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Need for Speed: Shift cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Racing with Need for Speed: Shift.
Collect the best vehicles in the Hot Wheels™ universe, build spectacular tracks and dive into breathtaking races.
TRAIL OUT
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Need for Speed: Shift cross-mention this title as a similar play. 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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Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
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.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Steam Engine Simulator
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
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More from Slightly Mad Studios
Other recommendable Steam games by Slightly Mad Studios, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Project CARS 2
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Need for Speed: Shift.
Another title from Slightly Mad Studios, the studio behind Need for Speed: Shift. 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.
Project CARS
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Need for Speed: Shift.
Another title from Slightly Mad Studios, the studio behind Need for Speed: Shift. 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.
Shift 2 Unleashed
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Need for Speed: Shift.
Another title from Slightly Mad Studios, the studio behind Need for Speed: Shift. 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!
Project CARS 3
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Need for Speed: Shift.
Another title from Slightly Mad Studios, the studio behind Need for Speed: Shift. 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.
Test Drive: Ferrari Racing Legends
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Need for Speed: Shift.
Another title from Slightly Mad Studios, the studio behind Need for Speed: Shift. 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.
Project CARS - Pagani Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Need for Speed: Shift.
Another title from Slightly Mad Studios, the studio behind Need for Speed: Shift. Shares Racing with Need for Speed: Shift.
Project CARS - Pagani Edition
FAST & FURIOUS CROSSROADS
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Need for Speed: Shift.
Another title from Slightly Mad Studios, the studio behind Need for Speed: Shift. 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.
Frequently asked about Need for Speed: Shift
- Does Need for Speed: Shift run on Steam Deck?
- Need for Speed: Shift is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- Does Need for Speed: Shift have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Need for Speed: Shift supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player).
- What games are most similar to Need for Speed: Shift?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Need for Speed: Shift are Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit, Shift 2 Unleashed, Need for Speed Undercover.
- Who developed Need for Speed: Shift?
- Need for Speed: Shift was developed by Slightly Mad Studios and published by Electronic Arts.
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