Need for Speed Most Wanted
Short description
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.
- Developer
- Criterion Games
- Publisher
- Electronic Arts
- Release
- Thu, Jun 18, 2020
- Price
- $19.99
- Reviews
- 25,516
- Positive
- 78%
- Followers
- 75,694
- Owners (estimated)
- 1M – 2M
- Concurrent players
- 320
- Genres
- Action, Adventure, Racing
- Features
- Multi-player, PvP, Online PvP, Steam Trading Cards
- Tags
Review count and SteamSpy's owner range agree well enough to narrow the estimate down to this band. Multiplied by $15.73, the average price these copies actually sold for — weighted from the price history rather than taken from the $19.99 launch price. That is 21% below list price on average. Before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.
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Media
History
87 data points since Aug 17, 2026. Gaps mean nothing changed — the value carries forward.
The revenue curve is an estimate, not a measurement. It is the only calculated series here: each interval takes the review growth of that period, multiplies it by the sales-per-review factor and by the price actually charged at the time, and adds the result to the running total. That is why it climbs more slowly through discount periods than the review curve next to it. The last point is the same figure quoted above — gross, before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.
The blurred area is the rest of the history. 173 further data points reach back to Jun 1, 2020 — your plan shows the last 90 days of it. How far each series in particular reaches is written on its own chart; not every one of them goes back that far. The shape in the blurred area is decoration, not data: the figures are not in this page at all. Plus unlocks the complete series.
Lowest recorded price: $1.99 on Nov 25, 2020.
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| Image | Name | Studio | Shared | Tag difference | Price | Reviews | Positive | Released | Revenue (estimated) |
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Need for Speed Heat | Ghost Games 3 titles | 5 | − Competitive + Singleplayer | $69.99 | 129,997 | 85% | Thu, Jun 04, 2020 | $340m $177m – $340m |
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Need for Speed Unbound | Criterion Games 5 titles | 5 | − Competitive + Singleplayer | $69.99 | 50,309 | 61% | Thu, Dec 01, 2022 | $107m $53.9m – $107m |
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Need for Speed | Ghost Games 3 titles | 5 | − Competitive + Adventure | $29.99 | 25,678 | 70% | Thu, Jun 04, 2020 | $33.3m $28.8m – $57.6m |
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Need for Speed Hot Pursuit Remastered | Stellar Entertainment Limited 2 titles | 5 | − Action + Combat Racing | $29.99 | 13,781 | 81% | Fri, Nov 06, 2020 | $23.2m $23.2m – $25.6m |
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Crash Drive 2 | M2H 3 titles | 5 | − Competitive + Family Friendly | $4.99 | 1,032 | 90% | Thu, May 28, 2015 | $161k $161k – $266k |
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