Games Like Need for Speed™ Most Wanted

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 26.1%, Driving 20.5%, Combat Racing 16% ★, Open World 11.8%, Multiplayer 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: It is the closest successor to Most Wanted’s Criterion-era formula, combining open-road events, intense cop chases, nitrous, and weaponized racer-versus-cop pursuits.

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 37.5%, Driving 16.7%, Automobile Sim 11.3%, Multiplayer 8%, Open World 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: Criterion’s other open-world racer delivers the same immediate event discovery, reckless arcade speed, shortcuts, jumps, and satisfying crash-focused competition.

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 22%, Driving 17.4%, Competitive 14.2%, Combat Racing 14.2% ★, Vehicular Combat 10%

Why You'll Like It: Its high-speed police pursuits, exotic cars, nitrous racing, and pursuit gadgets strongly match Most Wanted’s adrenaline-heavy chases.

Hustle by day and risk it all at night in Need for Speed™ Heat Deluxe Edition, a white-knuckle street racer, where the lines of the law fade as the sun starts to set.

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

Why You'll Like It: This open-world street racer mixes day-and-night events, customization, illegal racing, and escalating police pressure in a similarly accessible arcade package.

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 41.2%, Driving 20.1%, Open World 12.8%, Multiplayer 9.7%, Combat Racing 9.7% ★

Why You'll Like It: It offers an open city full of street races, collectible cars, nitrous-driven driving, competitive online play, and persistent police interference.

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 30.5%, Driving 19.2%, Automobile Sim 12.9%, Open World 10.6%, Multiplayer 8%

Why You'll Like It: Its nighttime open-world street-racing setting, tuner culture, drifting, and police escapes make it a natural alternative for Most Wanted fans.

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 27.4%, Combat Racing 19% ★, Open World 13.5%, Vehicular Combat 13.4%, Multiplayer 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: The open-world map, arcade handling, police chases, cinematic action races, and extensive car upgrading retain much of the same blockbuster energy.

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 36.2%, Driving 25%, Open World 16.3%, Multiplayer 10.3%, Arcade 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its large open-world driving environment, varied street events, car collecting, and social free-roam offer a polished modern alternative.

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

Why similar: Racing 32.8%, Driving 22%, Automobile Sim 14.9%, Open World 13.7%, Multiplayer 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: While less combat-focused, it provides superb open-world driving freedom, instant events, stunts, races, and a huge multiplayer car playground.

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 41.2%, Driving 24.9%, Automobile Sim 12.4%, Vehicular Combat 6.2%, Combat Racing 5.3% ★

Why You'll Like It: Its high-speed highway duels, rival progression, street-racing atmosphere, and customization make it a strong fit for Most Wanted’s competitive side.

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 27.5%, Driving 20.7%, Automobile Sim 17.8%, Open World 13.2%, Multiplayer 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: This is a street-racing-focused open-world game with nighttime cruising, vehicle tuning, drifting, and online competition closer to the underground side of Need for Speed.

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 33.9%, Automobile Sim 19.1%, Driving 18.4%, Open World 13.7%, Multiplayer 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes boundless multiplayer free-roam exploration, arcade-friendly road racing, stunts, and vehicle progression across a huge map.

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 34.6%, Driving 23.9%, Open World 14.3%, Automobile Sim 10.8%, Multiplayer 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its open-world Japanese-inspired roads, story-driven street-racing atmosphere, tuning, and drift-oriented driving suit players wanting more modern car culture.

Descend into the underworld of Japanese street racing. Set between 1990-2009, join the local street racing crews in their battle for territory control. Explore the real location open world(s), compete in wager races, battle other crews and upgrade your vehicles with detailed car customization.

Why similar: Racing 35.9%, Driving 22.7%, Automobile Sim 20.9%, Open World 7.2%, Arcade 6%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the late-night urban street-racing mood with Japanese cars, customization, highway runs, and a deliberately nostalgic arcade-racer feel.

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 38.7%, Driving 25%, Open World 15.6%, Automobile Sim 7.7%, Multiplayer 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: It brings luxury-car street racing and multiplayer free-roam to a full island map, emphasizing cruising and competitive road events.

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 62.8%, Multiplayer 12.3%, Split Screen 8.3% ★, Arcade 5.7%, Driving 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its aggressive arcade racing revolves around triggering huge environmental destruction to eliminate rivals, echoing Most Wanted’s action-racing intensity.

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 27.4%, Driving 21.3%, Automobile Sim 16.3%, Vehicular Combat 10.5%, Combat Racing 8.7% ★

Why You'll Like It: It offers accessible handling, close-contact racing, a cinematic campaign, and varied race disciplines for a more structured action-racing experience.

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 43.5%, Automobile Sim 23.1%, Driving 19.3%, Multiplayer 8.2%, Action 1.8%

Why You'll Like It: Although track-based, its accessible driving, hard collisions, vehicle damage, and chaotic multiplayer deliver the destructive thrill of Most Wanted takedowns.

Ready for the aggressive, adrenaline-filled ride that leaves you breathless? FlatOut: Ultimate Carnage Collector's Edition is all about destructive action. With carnage modes like the Deathmatch derby, Carnage Race and Head-on races are pure wreck-filled, adrenaline-pumping rides of maximum mayhem.

Why similar: Racing 36.7%, Combat Racing 29.6% ★, Automobile Sim 13.9%, Driving 6%, Multiplayer 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its reckless arcade handling, heavy crashes, demolition events, and frantic multiplayer provide a strong crash-racing counterpart.

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: Driving 32.2%, Racing 30.1%, Multiplayer 12.4%, Arcade 8.7%, Split Screen 7.3% ★

Why You'll Like It: It offers fast arcade handling, boost-powered races, jumps, shortcuts, and energetic multiplayer competition in a more toy-like setting.

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 26.4%, Combat Racing 24.8% ★, Automobile Sim 19.1%, Vehicular Combat 18.2%, Multiplayer 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: This weaponized racing game combines arcade road races, vehicular combat, upgrades, and destructive multiplayer mayhem.

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

Why similar: Racing 22.8%, Driving 18%, Automobile Sim 16.9%, Combat Racing 16.4% ★, Vehicular Combat 14.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its destructive races, boost-heavy arcade handling, crashes, and event variety make it a rougher but fitting vehicular-chaos alternative.

Experience the drive of your life as you throw yourself around on and off the track causing fences to shatter, tyre walls explode, water tanks and barrels fly across the track into other cars.

Why similar: Racing 26.2%, Combat Racing 19.2% ★, Driving 15%, Automobile Sim 13.3%, Vehicular Combat 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: This classic emphasizes destructive racing, shortcut-filled courses, aggressive opponents, and physics-driven crashes over clean lap times.

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 44%, Automobile Sim 15.3%, Combat Racing 12.1% ★, Driving 9.5%, Multiplayer 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: It replaces city streets with futuristic tracks but retains the core appeal of extreme speed, weapons, boosting, and competitive vehicle combat.

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 20.4%, Combat Racing 16.5% ★, Driving 15.4%, Automobile Sim 14.7%, Vehicular Combat 13.1%

Why You'll Like It: It mixes racing, stunts, weapons, destructible cars, and online modes for players who enjoy Most Wanted’s more combative moments.

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 30.2%, Driving 20%, Automobile Sim 17.4%, Multiplayer 11.4%, Open World 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its deep tuning, satisfying drift physics, online lobbies, and car-meet culture suit players who enjoy Most Wanted’s driving and customization aspects.

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

Why similar: Driving 28.9%, Racing 21.9%, Automobile Sim 21.6%, Open World 12.9%, Multiplayer 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its open driving environments and exceptionally detailed crash physics let you create the high-speed pursuits, jumps, and wrecks that Most Wanted encourages.

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 56%, Driving 16%, Open World 12.8%, Automobile Sim 7.9%, Multiplayer 4%

Why You'll Like It: This older street-racing game centers on urban cruising, pink-slip-style competition, upgrades, and tuner culture that fans of classic Need for Speed may appreciate.

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 40.2%, Driving 24%, Multiplayer 12%, Automobile Sim 7%, Open World 6.5%

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 31.1%, Driving 22.2%, Automobile Sim 16.9%, Open World 13.6%, Multiplayer 8.3%

Enjoy total freedom to fight the way you want. Explore 29 massive multiplayer maps and use loads of vehicles, weapons, and gadgets to help you turn up the heat. Every second of battle gets you closer to unlocking tons of extras and moving up in the Ranks. So get in the action.

Why similar: Multiplayer 57%, First-Person 17.7%, Action 15.3%, Singleplayer 6.8%, Co-op 3.1%

Ram through pile-ups and smash through your windshield as you push racing to the edge! FlatOut™ delivers more heart-stopping thrills than any sane driver can handle!

Why similar: Racing 27.5%, Combat Racing 21.9% ★, Automobile Sim 19.3%, Driving 13.1%, Vehicular Combat 8.2%

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

Why similar: Racing 45.5%, Driving 25.3%, Multiplayer 10.5%, Arcade 7.5%, Split Screen 6.1% ★

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

Why similar: Racing 30.8%, Driving 20.3%, Automobile Sim 14.2%, Competitive 11.6%, Open World 10.2%

Drift Horizon Online - immersive drifting simulator featuring smooth optimized visuals, realistic physics, and authentic car sounds including blow-off, exhaust, backfires and tire skids.

Why similar: Racing 24.8%, Driving 17.5%, Automobile Sim 12.3%, Combat Racing 11.6% ★, Open World 9.8%

FlatOut 4: Total Insanity™, where reckless driving has never been this much fun. FlatOut 4: Total Insanity™ blends everything everyone has ever loved about FlatOut into one offering. Gamers will also be introduced to all new and exciting features, game modes, and vehicles which will soon become personal favorites.

Why similar: Racing 50.1%, Automobile Sim 20.2%, Driving 11.2%, Multiplayer 9.9%, Arcade 3.2%

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

Why similar: Racing 51.5%, Automobile Sim 25.1%, Driving 17.8%, Multiplayer 4.9%, First-Person 0.5%

Race through Street, Drift, and Drag with real licensed cars. Master every turn, upgrade your ride, and dominate solo or online. The mobile racing hit, now free-to-play on PC.

Why similar: Racing 32.1%, Driving 22.4%, Competitive 16.1%, Automobile Sim 14%, Multiplayer 4.6%

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 32.4%, Driving 25.8%, Automobile Sim 16.5%, Multiplayer 10%, Arcade 6.2%

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 83.7%, Open World 6%, Arcade 5.7%, Multiplayer 2.6%, Action 1.4%

Embrace unrivaled destruction in Battlefield 4™. Revel in the glorious chaos of all-out war packed with rewarding, tactical challenges in an interactive environment.

Why similar: Multiplayer 54.3%, First-Person 12.9%, Open World 12.4%, Action 8.7%, Co-op 5%

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 27.2%, Driving 19.8%, Combat Racing 16.6% ★, Automobile Sim 14.7%, Open World 12%

You're being chased... clearly; For what reason? none; Escape into the vast 400km² world, using over 30 customizable vehicles, while blasting guns and music... It's a difficult feat, but maybe you can succeed.

Why similar: Racing 34.9%, Driving 20%, Open World 13.2%, Combat Racing 9.8% ★, Arcade 6.4%

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

Why similar: Multiplayer 57%, Action 15.8%, First-Person 14.9%, Crime 6.3%, Singleplayer 6%

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 28.9%, Driving 23.5%, Open World 13.2%, Multiplayer 8.9%, Automobile Sim 6.9%

Compete in over 500 cars on 30 world-famous tracks – now featuring the legendary Fujimi Kaido! Play the new 20th Anniversary Tour and obtain special rewards.

Why similar: Racing 31.3%, Driving 23.3%, Automobile Sim 20.9%, Multiplayer 9.8%, Open World 6.2%

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 38.1%, Automobile Sim 23.5%, Multiplayer 11.5%, Vehicular Combat 11.3%, Arcade 7%