Games like Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit
Closest overall match: Need for Speed: Most Wanted - A Criterion Game (★ 3.4). Highest rated: FlatOut 2 at ★ 4.3. Quickest to finish: FlatOut at about 1 hours.
Looking for something like Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit? Our model ranked 12 games by how much they share with it. The strongest common threads are Driving, Singleplayer and Open World. Updated Oct 16, 2026.
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66%
1. Need for Speed: Most Wanted - A Criterion Game
Shares Driving, Open World and Singleplayer; same developer; rated 0.5 lower; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2012
- Rating
- ★ 3.4
- Metacritic
- 82
- Playtime
- 2h
- Finish rate
- 61%
- Shared genres
- 1, 11
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63%
2. Need for Speed Rivals
Shares Driving, Online Co-Op, Open World, cooperative and Singleplayer; same developer; rated 0.7 lower.
- Year
- 2013
- Rating
- ★ 3.2
- Metacritic
- 77
- Playtime
- 2h
- Finish rate
- 47%
- Shared genres
- 1, 11
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62%
3. Need For Speed Undercover
Shares Driving, Open World and Singleplayer; rated 0.7 lower; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2008
- Rating
- ★ 3.2
- Metacritic
- 65
- Playtime
- 2h
- Finish rate
- 66%
- Shared genres
- 1, 11
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61%
4. GRID 2
Shares Driving, Controller, Open World, cooperative and Singleplayer; rated 0.6 lower.
- Year
- 2013
- Rating
- ★ 3.3
- Metacritic
- 80
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 38%
- Shared genres
- 1, 11
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60%
5. FlatOut 2
Shares Driving, Great Soundtrack and Singleplayer; rated 0.5 higher.
- Year
- 2006
- Rating
- ★ 4.3
- Metacritic
- 76
- Playtime
- 2h
- Finish rate
- 73%
- Shared genres
- 1, 11
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60%
6. FlatOut
Shares Driving, Great Soundtrack and Singleplayer.
- Year
- 2004
- Rating
- ★ 4.0
- Metacritic
- 72
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 69%
- Shared genres
- 1, 11
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60%
7. Need for Speed: Shift
Shares Driving and Singleplayer; same developer; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2009
- Rating
- ★ 3.6
- Metacritic
- 83
- Playtime
- 2h
- Finish rate
- 51%
- Shared genres
- 1
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60%
8. Street Racing Syndicate
Shares Driving, Open World and Singleplayer; rated 0.8 lower.
- Year
- 2004
- Rating
- ★ 3.1
- Metacritic
- 62
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 46%
- Shared genres
- 1, 11
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59%
9. Wreckfest
Shares Driving, cooperative and Singleplayer.
- Year
- 2018
- Rating
- ★ 3.7
- Metacritic
- 79
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 33%
- Shared genres
- 1, 11
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58%
10. Need for Speed Payback
Shares Driving, Controller, Online Co-Op, Open World and cooperative and 1 more tags; rated 0.7 lower.
- Year
- 2017
- Rating
- ★ 3.2
- Metacritic
- 61
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 59%
- Shared genres
- 1, 11
-
58%
11. Need for Speed
Shares Driving, Online Co-Op, Open World, cooperative and Singleplayer; rated 0.5 lower.
- Year
- 2015
- Rating
- ★ 3.4
- Metacritic
- 66
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 57%
- Shared genres
- 1, 11
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57%
12. Midnight Club 2
Shares Open World, Great Soundtrack and Singleplayer.
- Year
- 2003
- Rating
- ★ 3.6
- Metacritic
- 81
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 49%
- Shared genres
- 1, 11
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Questions people ask
What is the best game like Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit?
On our similarity model, Need for Speed: Most Wanted - A Criterion Game is the closest match to Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit — shares Driving, Open World and Singleplayer; same developer; rated 0.5 lower; released within 2 years.
Which game like Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit is rated highest?
FlatOut 2 holds the highest player rating in this list at 4.3/5 from 650 players.
How this list is built
Every game in our catalog is scored against Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit on five signals: weighted tag overlap (rare tags count more), genre overlap, platform family overlap, rating and playtime proximity, and release era. The list is recomputed nightly as ratings and new releases change.
Base game data via RAWG.