Need for Speed™ Rivals
Skip · Action · 2020
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 35, under the fair line, at $19.99. Price from Oct 21.
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.56/hr
- Reviews▼
- 76% of 10,772
- Critics
- 76
- Genre rank
- Top 35% Action
Holding it back: DRM, Monetization
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Time and effort
- Main story
- 12.8h
- To 100%
- 35h 2.7x the story
Price and sales
- Sales
- 10 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $1.99 August 2026
- Sale every
- 41d last September 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 62 now
- Recent reviews
- 74% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 6% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 65% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $1.99. That was August 2026. 10 discounts in the 6 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 35 percent. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 65 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Need for Speed™ Heat ($69.99, scores 38) beats it on value, while it beats Need for Speed™ ($29.99, scores 22).
More about Need for Speed™ Rivals
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 15 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2025 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 43 percent of the 1,809 reviews written there were positive, against 76 percent overall, and those are 19 percent of everything written about it. It sells extras on top of the sticker price (boost); the score docks it lightly for that.
12.8 hours to finish it, 35 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.7 times the campaign.
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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
Most Under-Appreciated NFS Game Rivals is the best creation by Ghost & Criterion. It has some of the most visceral risk to reward gameplay I have ever experienced in any racing game. One slight mistake and it's over. Your reward is gone, and your efforts are worthless. Want to go out there and earn some cash? You gotta risk your life because the cops in Rivals are BRUTAL as hell. This game ain't no joke. I was...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Unlocking frame rate bugs pursuits / cop chases, and also certain races. Game is still playable after all these years. MP was a wasted concept - it could have been so much better.
4/10. The game has a very cool concept, allowing you to play as cops or illegal racers with active abilities that add dynamic gameplay and make it stand out from other racing games. The races are highly adrenaline-fueled and, at times, epic. However, game design decisions combined with technical issues (bugs, a 30 FPS lock, spontaneous teleportation of enemy cars, civilian cars rendering at very close distances with...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 30 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Need for Speed™ Rivals scores 35/100 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/1262600/need-for-speed-rivalsReviews 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 Oct 21. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.