Games Like Need for Speed™ Heat

Race to the top, definitely don’t flop. Outsmart the cops, and enter weekly qualifiers for The Grand: the ultimate street race. Pack your garage with precision-tuned, custom rides, and light up the streets with your style.

Why similar: Racing 41.6%, Driving 18.5%, Open World 11.8%, Multiplayer 8.9%, Combat Racing 7.2% ★

Why You'll Like It: It is Heat's direct successor in spirit, retaining open-world street racing, deep visual tuning, police chases, and a day-to-night risk-and-reward structure.

Set in the underworld of Fortune Valley, you and your crew were divided by betrayal and reunited by revenge to take down The House, a nefarious cartel that rules the city’s casinos, criminals and cops. In this corrupt gambler’s paradise, the stakes are high and The House always wins.

Why similar: Racing 28.6%, Combat Racing 14.7% ★, Open World 12.9%, Multiplayer 9.1%, Co-op 6%

Why You'll Like It: This open-world Need for Speed emphasizes arcade racing, extensive car customization, cinematic action, and pursuit-heavy street-racing events.

Ready to own the streets? Get behind the wheel of iconic cars and floor it through Ventura Bay, a sprawling urban playground. Explore overlapping stories as you build your reputation – and your dream car – and become the ultimate racing icon.

Why similar: Racing 36.1%, Driving 20.6%, Open World 11.5%, Multiplayer 8.6%, Combat Racing 6.3% ★

Why You'll Like It: Its nocturnal urban setting, always-online street-racing scene, deep customization, drifting, and police pressure make it especially close to Heat's vibe.

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.

Why similar: Racing 35%, Driving 21.7%, Open World 13.1%, Multiplayer 9.5%, Combat Racing 8.9% ★

Why You'll Like It: Fast open-world racing and relentless police pursuits make it a great fit for players who most enjoy Heat's high-speed escapes.

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

Why similar: Racing 24.3%, Driving 17.3%, Combat Racing 11.1% ★, Open World 10%, Multiplayer 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its seamless open-world races and intense racer-versus-cop chases capture Heat's sense of speed, danger, and pursuit escalation.

Conquer mountain roads, highways, and city streets. Build your dream car with detailed tuning that unleashes the potential of “CarX Technology”© physics. Take part in thrilling races, enjoying realistic gameplay and dynamic driving.

Why similar: Racing 32.4%, Driving 22.2%, Open World 14.2%, Multiplayer 9.3%, Sports 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers open-city street racing with extensive performance tuning, drifting, cruising, and a stronger focus on building cars for different disciplines.

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.

Why similar: Racing 30.7%, Driving 22.2%, Combat Racing 14.7% ★, Open World 12.3%, Multiplayer 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: While less focused on customization, it offers exceptionally polished arcade handling and thrilling high-speed cop chases.

Welcome to Motorfest, the ultimate open-world driving experience. Explore the Hawaiian islands of O'ahu and Maui. Celebrate the best of car culture through 20+ themed campaigns (street racing, offroad, drift...) and collect hundreds of iconic vehicles. Enjoy the game free for five hours!

Why similar: Racing 34.8%, Driving 22%, Open World 14.4%, Multiplayer 9%, Co-op 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: It combines a huge open world, car collecting, multiplayer activities, and varied arcade racing in a celebratory automotive setting.

Take on the American motorsports scene as you explore and dominate the land, air, and sea across the entire USA. New: play The Crew 2 offline or online with the new Hybrid mode, available now!

Why similar: Racing 41.9%, Driving 20.7%, Open World 15.5%, Multiplayer 9.5%, Co-op 3.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its enormous shared open world supports cruising, multiplayer challenges, vehicle collecting, and accessible arcade driving across a wide range of events.

Explore the vibrant open world landscapes of Mexico with limitless, fun driving action in the world’s greatest cars.

Why similar: Racing 37.2%, Driving 22.7%, Open World 14.2%, Multiplayer 8.5%, Co-op 3.4%

Why You'll Like It: This is a superb open-world driving playground with a vast car roster, approachable handling, online events, and substantial tuning options.

Burnout Paradise Remastered provides the ultimate driving playground for you and your friends to play online. This remaster includes all add-ons from the Year of Paradise, including the Big Surf Island update, meticulously recreated and ready to wreck in 4K.

Why similar: Racing 43.2%, Driving 17.5%, Multiplayer 8.4%, Open World 7.9%, Co-op 4%

Why You'll Like It: Its open-city structure, instant events, aggressive driving, and crash-heavy arcade action suit Heat players looking for freer and more destructive racing.

Discover Japan’s legendary car culture in JDM! Take on challenging mountain roads, visit Japanese legendary drifting spots in licensed JDM cars and immerse in the story about second chances told through manga pages. Explore an open world where every turn invites you to master the art of drift.

Why similar: Racing 38.3%, Driving 24.2%, Open World 14.5%, Multiplayer 6.6%, Sports 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: It centers on Japanese street-car culture, visual and mechanical customization, drifting, and driving through a large stylized open world.

TDUSC is a lifestyle and social experience that redefines what an open-world racing game can be. Explore a fully recreated Hong Kong Island. Take to the road behind the wheel of exceptional cars and live the ultimate life of luxury.

Why similar: Racing 44.2%, Driving 26%, Open World 16.2%, Multiplayer 7.9%, Third Person 2.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its open-world island, luxury-car lifestyle framing, social competition, and free-roaming driving aim at a similar automotive-culture fantasy.

The title of “fastest” never fades. Race through the sealed future Tokyo night highways in your customized car. Defeat rivals in “SP Battle,” where drivers clash by draining Spirit Points. A unique racing game where only the rules for victory matter.

Why similar: Racing 54.3%, Driving 30%, Open World 5.2%, Combat Racing 5.2% ★, Arcade 2.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its highway duels, night-city atmosphere, performance upgrades, and rival-focused progression strongly appeal to fans of underground street racing.

GRID Legends delivers thrilling wheel-to-wheel motorsport action. Create dream race events, hop into live races, experience a dramatic virtual production story, and embrace the sensation of spectacular racing.

Why similar: Racing 36.4%, Driving 25.8%, Combat Racing 8.6% ★, Sports 7.3%, Multiplayer 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: It provides accessible but weighty racing, a career-driven progression loop, and dramatic wheel-to-wheel competition for players wanting more structured events.

Spark your competitive soul with Asphalt Legends and feel the collective heartbeat of the road! Join forces with other players to speed through intense arcade races, perform jaw-dropping stunts, and charge towards victory while driving the finest hypercars!

Why similar: Racing 43.9%, Driving 23.9%, Multiplayer 11.9%, Open World 6.5%, Arcade 3%

Why You'll Like It: It offers flashy, boost-heavy arcade races, stunt-filled tracks, car collection, and quick online competition with minimal simulation overhead.

The raw, high-stakes world of illegal street racing comes to life in Street Racing Syndicate. Trick out over 40 authentic licensed cars with parts from over 15 real-world manufacturers, then turn your customized ride loose on the streets of 3 cities across the USA.

Why similar: Racing 63.5%, Driving 16.5%, Open World 13.3%, Multiplayer 4.1%, Arcade 1.9%

Why You'll Like It: This older street-racing game focuses on illegal races, vehicle upgrades, visual customization, and a tuner-car lifestyle similar to Heat's roots.

Collect the best vehicles in the Hot Wheels™ universe, build spectacular tracks and dive into breathtaking races.

Why similar: Racing 46.5%, Driving 23.5%, Multiplayer 9.8%, Split Screen 6.8% ★, Arcade 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: It trades street culture for toy-car tracks, but preserves Heat's accessible arcade speed, drifting, customization, and competitive multiplayer appeal.

Wreckfest is a demolition derby themed racing game with soft-body damage modeling, sophisticated driving dynamics and in-depth vehicle upgrading, featuring both demolition derbies and more traditional track races. It’s all about fun, breakneck racing and over-the-top crashes.

Why similar: Racing 51.6%, Driving 20.9%, Multiplayer 8.9%, Destruction 8.7%, Sports 2.9%

Why You'll Like It: The driving is more physical and destructive, but its aggressive racing, upgrades, and chaotic multiplayer provide a similarly rowdy automotive experience.

Master realistic drift physics, tune 120+ cars and drift online with up to 16 players across platforms. Compete in TOP-32, build unique setups and explore hundreds of community-made Workshop maps.

Why similar: Racing 34.3%, Driving 20.8%, Multiplayer 11.8%, Open World 9.6%, Co-op 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its highly regarded drift handling, broad car-tuning tools, and online lobbies are ideal if drifting and custom builds are your favorite parts of Heat.

From the vibrant streets of Tokyo to high-stakes professional competitions backed by global brands, Torque Drift 2 invokes all aspects of drift and street culture to offer an experience as diverse and dynamic as the motorsport itself.

Why similar: Racing 35.1%, Driving 29.5%, Multiplayer 8.1%, Sports 7.5%, Co-op 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on modern tuner builds, competitive drifting, visual personalization, and online car culture in a more drift-specialized format.

Tune your dream drift car, change parts, boost performance and challenge other players on Japan's legendary EBISU circuits!

Why similar: Racing 65%, Driving 17.4%, Multiplayer 6.9%, Sports 4.5%, Third Person 1.8%

Why You'll Like It: This drift-focused racer provides customizable cars, competitive events, and an accessible route into the sliding-focused side of street racing.

The latest title in the RIDGE RACER franchise, RIDGE RACER Unbounded gears up to carve its own destructive path with a new breed of arcade racing.

Why similar: Racing 82.2%, Open World 5.4%, Destruction 4.8%, Arcade 3.5%, Multiplayer 2.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its arcade drifting, city-based races, destructible environments, and spectacular crashes make it a fast, aggressive alternative.

Gas Guzzlers Extreme is a fast, furious, armed-to-the-teeth, trigger-happy shooter, shifted into top gear! Take a white knuckle ride in this crazily addictive combat racing game.

Why similar: Racing 45%, Combat Racing 31.4% ★, Multiplayer 6.9%, Driving 5.3%, Sports 3.1%

Why You'll Like It: This combines arcade racing, vehicular combat, car upgrades, and explosive multiplayer action for a more weaponized take on Heat's combat-racing edge.

Welcome to the festival of explosive races, TRAIL OUT! Reckless racing around the world! Crashes, explosions, destruction, and screaming drivers!

Why similar: Racing 31.6%, Driving 22.7%, Combat Racing 16.8% ★, Destruction 8%, Sports 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its destructive racing, campaign progression, vehicle upgrades, and chaotic events offer a rougher but energetic alternative for fans of automotive mayhem.

Discover the breathtaking landscapes of Japan in over 550 real-world cars and become a racing Legend in Forza Horizon's biggest open world driving adventure yet.

Why similar: Racing 34.8%, Driving 22.6%, Open World 13.9%, Multiplayer 8.4%, Sports 4.3%

A dynamic soft-body physics vehicle simulator capable of doing just about anything.

Why similar: Driving 33.1%, Racing 27.6%, Open World 14.9%, Multiplayer 9.3%, Destruction 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its open driving environments and exceptionally detailed vehicle physics make it excellent for experimenting with cars, pursuits, crashes, and custom scenarios.

Assetto Corsa v1.16 introduces the new "Laguna Seca" laser-scanned track, 7 new cars among which the eagerly awaited Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrifoglio! Check the changelog for further info!

Why similar: Racing 67.8%, Driving 17.5%, Multiplayer 7.3%, Open World 4.2%, Sports 2.4%

Why You'll Like It: It is considerably more simulation-oriented, but its huge mod scene and detailed tuning make it a strong next step for Heat players interested in deeper car control.

Crashday, the explosive cult classic multiplayer racer, is back! Retooled and remastered, Crashday: Redline Edition brings back the fun and memories of the original with this lovingly crafted tribute edition, featuring all-new and expanded features, including Steam Workshop support. Today is Crashday!

Why similar: Racing 29.2%, Driving 20.2%, Combat Racing 17.5% ★, Multiplayer 8.9%, Open World 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: It mixes stunt racing, destruction derbies, weaponized vehicles, customization, and multiplayer into a playful combat-racing package.

Build your car, earn sponsors, and compete in online multiplayer drift battles!

Why similar: Racing 40.8%, Driving 24.5%, Open World 12.3%, Multiplayer 11.6%, Sports 4.6%

Welcome to Disney Speedstorm! Drift into the ultimate hero-based combat racing game, set on high-speed circuits inspired by Disney and Pixar worlds. Master each character’s unique skills and claim victory in this thrilling arcade racing experience from the creators of the Asphalt series!

Why similar: Racing 31.7%, Driving 19.5%, Combat Racing 14.1% ★, Multiplayer 10.2%, Sports 4.1%

Jump into a Hot Wheels™-sized world with four islands packed with events, challenges and full-throttle mayhem. Collect iconic vehicles, assemble your Rush Squad, build epic tracks, and earn the title of Rush Master.

Why similar: Racing 56.7%, Driving 18.6%, Multiplayer 10%, Arcade 5.5%, Split Screen 4.2% ★

Jump into a massive multiplayer playground! Bike, ski, snowboard, or wingsuit across an open world sports paradise where the rules are yours to make or break.

Why similar: Racing 39.9%, Open World 18.7%, Multiplayer 11.1%, Sports 8.5%, Co-op 5.1%

An arcade racer that tears up the rule book with innovative twin-stick controls, completely re-imagined driving mechanics and a huge roster of fiercely individual cars and tracks.

Why similar: Racing 91.1%, Driving 4.4%, Multiplayer 1.4%, Arcade 0.9%, PvP 0.7%

Harness gravity-defying speed in classic combat racing taken to the EXTREME. Master wall-riding, ceiling-surfing tracks, and unleash devastating weapons across 29 blistering circuits. Race solo, split-screen, or online with up to 10 players. GRIP delivers white-knuckle racing like nothing else.

Why similar: Racing 59.3%, Combat Racing 12.1% ★, Driving 11.7%, Multiplayer 7.2%, Split Screen 4.4% ★

With the pedal to the metal, race along more than 3,000 kilometers of tracks that await you! On the mountainside, through a nature park, in the middle of the desert or along the coast, defend your position in more than 250 races, with championships, exhibition races and Grand Prix.

Why similar: Racing 55.4%, Combat Racing 17.6% ★, Split Screen 9.1% ★, Multiplayer 7.8%, Third Person 5.3%

Become the star on festival of car culture and sports. Drift races and Free Style Drift tours on public roads with traffic. Huge game world, iconic tracks. Unique collection of cars. Wide range of tuning and styling options. Accurate physics: a sense of speed and lateral g-forces.

Why similar: Racing 34.9%, Driving 22.4%, Open World 14.7%, Multiplayer 8.5%, Sports 6.4%

The world’s raddest cars are back and taking the fun to the next level! Race over 130 vehicles with crazy new mechanics and even more vehicle types. Plus, build your tracks with stunning new environments and different game modes to have fun off and online!

Why similar: Racing 29.5%, Driving 28.8%, Multiplayer 11.1%, Split Screen 7.9% ★, PvP 5.6%

Hotshot Racing is a blisteringly fast arcade-style racing game fusing drift handling, razor-sharp retro visuals and an incredible sense of speed to create an exhilarating driving experience.

Why similar: Racing 45.7%, Driving 20.2%, Multiplayer 10.3%, Split Screen 6.9% ★, Online Co-Op 5.8%

Wreckreation is an evolving open-world driving playground built around choice. Play solo, explore on- and off road, create your own races and challenges, hang out online with friends using full cross-play. With fast updates shaped by players, this world keeps evolving.

Why similar: Racing 30.7%, Driving 22.7%, Open World 12.8%, Multiplayer 8.6%, Combat Racing 5.1% ★

DIRT 5 is a fun, amplified, off-road arcade racing experience created by Codemasters. Blaze a trail on routes across the world, covering gravel, ice, snow and sand, with a roster of cars ranging from rally icons to trucks, to GT heroes.

Why similar: Racing 38%, Driving 27.5%, Multiplayer 10.7%, Sports 6.5%, Arcade 4.5%

High-octane action and anime aesthetics collide in this arcade racing game, featuring fighting mechanics and a storyline that hits hard. In this world, some race for glory while others seek power or revenge. Every race is a fight and every battle is personal.

Why similar: Racing 37.4%, Driving 25.6%, Combat Racing 17.2% ★, Arcade 4.7%, Multiplayer 4.5%

Bring the true driver’s experience to life with all the intensity and exhilaration of being behind the wheel!

Why similar: Racing 70.8%, Driving 22.3%, Multiplayer 6.1%, First-Person 0.4%, Singleplayer 0.4%

Arcade drifting with 50+ dream cars, from JDM icons to American Muscle. Master the art of the drift in a huge career, then dominate the competition in cross-platform online battles. Your legend begins now—no high-end PC required.

Why similar: Racing 44.5%, Multiplayer 12.2%, Sports 8.6%, Co-op 8%, Online Co-Op 7.8%

Drift over some of Japan's most legendary mountain passes, compete against your friends or players from around the world in epic battles, make deliveries, buy new cars and set records in the world rankings!

Why similar: Racing 33.9%, Driving 22.5%, Combat Racing 15.4% ★, Open World 13.7%, PvP 4%

Split/Second is an intense action racing game set within a reality TV show. Competitors vie to be the first to the finish line in a set rigged to blow. Players don’t just collide with other vehicles to knock them from the track, but can also trigger devastating events that alter the race dynamics.

Why similar: Racing 60.4%, Multiplayer 10.8%, Split Screen 8.7% ★, Destruction 8.4%, Driving 3.9%

Push performance bikes to the absolute limit, and weave through traffic where one wrong move can spell disaster.

Why similar: Racing 32.6%, Driving 25.2%, Multiplayer 10.8%, Open World 10.4%, Sports 7.1%

90s Osaka Kanjo Night Street Racing and Drift Online with True JDM Cars, Online PvP, Engine, Body and Suspension Tuning!

Why similar: Racing 30.1%, Driving 22.4%, Combat Racing 15.1% ★, Open World 11.7%, Sports 6.4%

Strategy. Speed. Story. These are the core pillars of Battlefield™ Hardline, a cops vs. criminals experience unlike any other.

Why similar: Multiplayer 53.6%, Action 14%, PvP 11.3%, First-Person 8.3%, Singleplayer 7.1%

DiRT Rally 2.0 dares you to carve your way through a selection of iconic rally locations from across the globe, in the most powerful off-road vehicles ever made, knowing that the smallest mistake could end your stage.

Why similar: Racing 54.8%, Driving 22.4%, Multiplayer 10.8%, Sports 5.4%, Open World 3%