Need for Speed™ Most Wanted
Skip · Action · 2020
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
Under the fair line today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 80% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$19.99Skip
Typical seasonal cut
$3.9980% offFair
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.96/hr
- Reviews▼
- 77% of 28,456
- Critics
- 78 players 1 lower
- Genre rank
- Top 25% Action
Holding it back: DRM, Refunds
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $3.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 10.2h
- To 100%
- 35.8h 3.5x the story
Price and sales
- Sales
- 51 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $1.99 November 2020
- Sale every
- 40d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 291 now
- Recent reviews
- 78% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 6% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 72% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 51 times in the 6 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 25 percent. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 72 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Forza Horizon 5 ($59.99, scores 82) beats it on value, while it beats Need for Speed™ Rivals ($19.99, scores 35).
More about Need for Speed™ Most Wanted
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 37 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2026 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,368 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 334 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. 1 of the 37 refunded reviewers was past Valve's two-hour window when they wrote the review. Inside the two-hour refund window, 53 percent of the 6,557 reviews written there were positive, against 77 percent overall, and those are 26 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 10.2 hours; clearing it takes 36, which is 3.5 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 31 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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
I recently installed this game, and surprisingly, the game cannot by play. EA ask me to try at thee later time
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
No controller support. No quick mapping to objective. No pursuit enders. No climbing to the top from the bottom feeling. Crash cutscene into everything. This isn't my Most Wanted. This is goy slop.
Started palying on ps3 and I got a pc, saw the game, waited for sale, bought the game (with all expansions) and enjoyed it all the way through and got the Koenigsegg Agera R, 10/10.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 20 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Need for Speed™ Most Wanted scores 41/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1262560/need-for-speed-most-wantedReviews 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 Oct 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.