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Need for Speed™ Rivals
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
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
“---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☑ Beautiful ☐ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☑ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Not too…”
— a player, Steam review · 95 hrs played“Very cool game, acctualy my favorite nfs game, sadly only playable on 30 fps (game limitation) if ea is reading this, PLEASE let me play at 60 or more fps, PLEASE”
— a player, Steam review · 23 hrs played“they shut down online servers even though it has active players, EA has to stop shutting down online servers for old games, it's very disrespectful for the players and the community, people paying for these games to enjoy playing online, if you don't wanna keep your servers, let…”
— a player, Steam review · 13 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-11 13:28 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Price tracking
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.
| Genres | Action, Adventure, Racing |
| Player tags | Racing · Driving · Open World · Multiplayer · Combat Racing · PvP · Action · Arcade · Third Person · First-Person · Sports · Atmospheric (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · PvP · Online PvP · Co-op · Online Co-op · Full controller support · Steam Trading Cards |
| Languages | English * , French * , Italian * , German * , Spanish - Spain * , Portuguese - Brazil, Dutch, Polish, Russian * , Japanese * , Traditional Chinese * |
| Controller | Full support |
| Estimated owners | 1,000,000 – 2,000,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | https://www.ea.com/games/need-for-speed |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 (Service Pack 2) 32-Bit Processor: Intel 2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo or AMD 2.8 GHz Athlon X2 Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: AMD Radeon 3870 512 MB or higher performance; NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT or higher performance; Intel HD 4000 Integrated 512 MB or higher performance Network: Broadband Internet connection Storage: 30 GB available space Sound Card: DirectX compatible