Need for Speed™ Hot Pursuit Remastered
Fair · Action · 2020
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $5.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 16.6h
- Value
- $0.36/hr
- Reviews
- 81% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, (AMD) Radeon HD 5870 or equivalent (Nvidia) GeForce GT 640 or equivalent, 45 GB of storage. Windows only.
Feel the thrill of the chase and the rush of escape behind the wheels of the world’s hottest high-performance cars in Need for Speed™ Hot Pursuit Remastered– a heart-pumping, socially competitive racing experience.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
November 2022 is where it bottomed out, at $2.99. Its cuts run 80 percent off as a rule. There have been 48 in the 6 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today's $5.99 at 80 percent off still sits 100 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
At full price it scores 50. The current cut is what makes it a 60.
On value it sits in the top 6 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 82 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Crash Drive 2 ($4.99, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats Need for Speed™ Most Wanted ($4.99, scores 51).
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 13 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written October 2025 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 49 percent of the 2,030 reviews written there were positive, against 81 percent overall, and those are 15 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 16.6 hours. Doing everything runs 35, 2.1 times as long.
The drop-off
70% start to 2% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
116 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
This is one of the best Need for Speeds I have ever played, full stop. I forgot just how dearly I missed the formula of a linear world racing game. Being able to go through both the cop and racer ranks was such a blast. Driving here also feels fantastic. The drifting reminds me a little bit of the Ridge Racer game on PSP. Loose enough to be able to kick out whenever you want, but not so aggressively tuned to where...
The pursuit is hot but not always smooth. There are 2 parts to this review: first, the game, and second, the port. The game is incredible; it's basically a remake of the older 1990/early 2000s Hot Pursuit games. The visuals have been perfectly upgraded while remaining faithful to the original vibe. And the addition of car combat is one of the best things they could have added to it. It's basically perfect as a...
A phenomenal game ran into the ground by an enshittified company who loves adding bloat to your PC while forcing you on an internet adventure just to use said bloat. I recently bought several NFS games including Hot Pursuit and today I wanted to play the game, and so I loaded up the game, only to find that it crashed, repeated several times yielded the same results, crash after crash, prompting me to look into the...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Need for Speed™ Hot Pursuit Remastered scores 60/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1328660/need-for-speed-hot-pursuit-remasteredThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 15, price as of Sep 24.
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