Action · June 4, 2020

Need for Speed™ Rivals (2020)

calendar_todayAge 10+extension1 DLClocal_offer-78% current discountgroup1M–10M ownersrecommend8.3k recommendations
Need for Speed™ Rivals: Complete Edition Online servers are no longer available. Own the complete Need for Speed™ Rivals experience. Get the full game, plus all six downloadable content packs with the Complete Edition. Key features 6 additional packs — Get the Simply Jaguar Complete Pack, the Ferrari Edizioni Speciali Complete Pack, the Concept Lamborghini Complete Pack, the Koenigsegg Agera One, the Complete Movie Pack, and the Loaded Garage Pack. Race with friends — Imagine your race and your friend’s pursuit colliding, creating a world where no 2 events feel the same. Don’t want to play with others? Simply choose to make Redview County yours alone and dominate the advanced Racer and Cop AI. High-stakes rivalry — Racers are lone wolves out for glory, driving agile cars built for high-speed racing and epic chases. Cops work in teams to hunt down and bust racers using the full power of the police force. Switch roles whenever you like, and watch the stakes grow through a new scoring system that puts your speed points on the line. Your car, your identity — Personalize your cars with performance and style modifications. Power up your car with the latest upgrades in pursuit technology and personalize your bodywork with fresh paint jobs, liveries, custom license plates, rims, and decals to show off your car to the world. Pursuit and evasion tech — Use the latest pursuit tech and modifications to change your pursuit or escape strategy on the fly. Racers evade Cops using turbo bursts, jammers, and electromagnetic pulses. Cops will be armed for aggressive busts, deploying shockwaves, spike strips, and calling in police roadblocks or helicopter support. About the Game Online servers are no longer available. Welcome to Redview County, where a street-racing rivalry between cops and racers never stops as both sides compete in an all-out war featuring the fastest cars, mods and technology in a gritty open road environment. Play as either a cop or racer, where each side of the law has its own set of high stakes challenges, rewards and consequences. Risk everything in the ultimate high stakes rivalry.

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Community Tag Signals

Tag weights reflect how many Steam users voted each descriptor — larger pills = stronger consensus.

  • Racing · 205
  • Driving · 178
  • Open World · 178
  • Multiplayer · 176
  • Combat Racing · 168
  • PvP · 159
  • Action · 142
  • Arcade · 142
  • Third Person · 140
  • First-Person · 140
  • Sports · 133
  • Atmospheric · 132
  • Singleplayer · 129
  • Adventure · 127
  • Co-op · 124

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Localization Coverage

Interface / Subtitles (11)

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Full audio (8)

  • English
  • French
  • Italian
  • German
  • Spanish - Spain
  • Russian
  • Japanese
  • Traditional Chinese

Position in Action

MetricThis titleGenre position
Review volume8.9k Steam reviewsTop 43% in Action
Positive rating75% positiveGenre average: 83% — this title sits in top 80%
Metacritic76/100Genre average 77 — top 62% of Action titles
Engagement hours8 h averageTop 55% for session depth among Action

Reception Metrics

Steam community

75%Mostly Positive · 8.9k reviews

6.6k positive · 2.2k negative

Metacritic

76/100 critic aggregate

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Metacritic user score

6.2/10

Curator recommendations

8.3k

Features & Capabilities

Multiplayer

  • Multi-player
  • PvP
  • Online PvP
  • Co-op
  • Online Co-op

Community

  • Steam Trading Cards

Input & Comfort

  • Full controller support

Other

  • Single-player

Release & Availability

Release dateJun 4, 2020
DeveloperCriterion Games
PublisherElectronic Arts
Base price$4.39 -78%
Required age10+
DLC / Add-ons1 released
PlatformsWindows
Estimated owners1M–10M
External linksOfficial site · Metacritic page · Support

Engagement Profile

All-time avg

8h

short (5–15 hours)

Median

3h

Typical completion time

2-week avg

7h

Current engagement

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