Need for Speed™
Skip · Action · 2020
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 22, under the fair line, at $29.99. Price from Oct 21.
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.87/hr
- Reviews▼
- 69% of 30,028
- Genre rank
- Top 70% Action
Holding it back: DRM, Reviews
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Time and effort
- Main story
- 16h
- To 100%
- 31.5h 2.0x the story
- Achievements
- 45
Price and sales
- Sales
- 10 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $2.99 August 2026
- Sale every
- 41d last September 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 219 now
- Recent reviews
- 70% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 2% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 26% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
67% start to 2% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
August 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $2.99. It has been discounted 10 times in the 6 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 6 weeks apart.
It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 74 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Need for Speed™ Heat ($69.99, scores 38) beats it on value, while it beats Burnout™ Paradise Remastered ($19.99, scores 11).
More about Need for Speed™
18 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2026 to October 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,368 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 625 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 27 percent of the 4,784 reviews written there were positive, against 69 percent overall, and those are 19 percent of everything written about it.
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What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
✅ Pros: Stunning graphics and atmosphere, deep car customization and visual tuning, great soundtrack and immersive urban culture vibe, nostalgic, live-action cutscenes. ❌ Cons: Always-online requirement (can cause lag or server disconnects), weak and unchallenging police pursuits, cannot pause the game. 🏆 Rating: 7.3 / 10
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
50/50, never be NFS WORLD, but just to smash some time is ok, driving/handling not very good execution. never would pay full price
The game requires the EA launcher. The game only works with other players. Bots interfere during races. Handling in drifts is terrible.4/10
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, 30 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Need for Speed™ scores 22/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. Price last read Oct 21. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1262540/need-for-speedReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 8, price as of Oct 21. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.