Single-player games like Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit
Below are 17 single-player Steam games similar to Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit, 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™ Heat
Single-player alternative to Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Racing with Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit.
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™ Most Wanted
Single-player alternative to Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Racing with Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit.
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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Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box
Single-player alternative to Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Racing with Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit.
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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GRID 2
Single-player alternative to Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Racing with Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit.
Be fast, be first and be famous as the race returns in GRID 2, the sequel to the BAFTA-award winning, multi-million selling Race Driver: GRID.
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The Crew™
Single-player alternative to Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Racing with Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit.
The Crew is a revolutionary action-driving MMO, developed exclusively for next-gen consoles and high-end PCs that leverage new hardware capabilities to connect players online like never before. The Crew takes you and your friends on a wild ride across a massive, open-world recreation of the United States that is loaded with exciting...
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Forza Horizon 4
Single-player alternative to Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Racing with Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit.
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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FlatOut 2
Single-player alternative to Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Racing with Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit.
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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F1® 24
Single-player alternative to Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Racing with Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit.
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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Wreckfest
Single-player alternative to Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit — 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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Need for Speed™ Unbound
Single-player alternative to Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Racing with Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit.
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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Need for Speed™ Rivals
Single-player alternative to Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Racing with Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit.
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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Burnout™ Paradise Remastered
Single-player alternative to Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Racing with Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit.
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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Need for Speed™
Single-player alternative to Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Racing with Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit.
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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Screamer
Single-player alternative to Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Racing with Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit.
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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Forza Horizon 5
Single-player alternative to Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Racing with Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit.
Explore the vibrant open world landscapes of Mexico with limitless, fun driving action in the world’s greatest cars.
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Split/Second
Single-player alternative to Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Racing with Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit.
Split/Second is an intense action racing game set within a reality TV show. Competitors vie to be the first to the finish line in a set rigged to blow. Players don’t just collide with other vehicles to knock them from the track, but can also trigger devastating events that alter the race dynamics.
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TrickStyle
Single-player alternative to Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Racing with Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit.
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!