Need for Speed™ Rivals

Need for Speed™ Rivals

Criterion Games · 2020 · Racing, Open World, Driving, Multiplayer, Combat Racing

PC
Mostly Positive77% · 8,77476Metacritic55playing now
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About Need for Speed™ Rivals

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Race through Redview County as either a cop or street racer, competing in intense high-stakes challenges with fully customizable cars and cutting-edge mods. Choose your side of the law and experience completely different campaigns, rewards, and consequences in this gritty open-world racing rivalry.

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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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What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Recommended Jul 14, 2026
A game ahead of its time and a truly unique standalone title. Honestly, [i][b]NFS: Rivals[/b][/i] is very underrated in the NFS franchise. First NFS game made on the [b]Frostbite Engine[/b] (FE 3). Two campaigns: Play as a cop or a racer. Playable endlessly after finishing those campaigns to unlock various stuff. The cop has three variants of each car and higher speeds than racer cars. The racer has upgrades and customisations. Both have their own standard pursuit tech. The cop has to do assignments. The racer has to do Speedlists and needs to earn SP. Various events are available on the map to complete. Sadly, multiplayer was shut down in 2025 because of the low number of players. Even lower than NFS: MW. [i][b]NFS: Rivals[/b][/i] features unique scenarios, good environmental dynamics (including day & night, rain, desert, and snow), physics, and sounds. It also runs very smoothly on Linux (I tried using Arch Linux, Steam Proton Experimental and it worked flawlessly with zero errors. I completed the cop campaign in 21 hours.) I faced minor bugs in missions. Just keep going or restarting will fix them. You need these command-line arguments for a better experience: 1. -Render.Reso…
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Recommended Jul 14, 2026
fun and action pack run game again and it as fast as the city version the review time just makes it look half speed. play again and it dobule to 60 from current 30fps go cops and the car reacers.
Recommended Jul 13, 2026
nice
Not recommended Jul 12, 2026
game is created for 30 fps and if you force run this game above 30 fps, you cannot complete the events.
Not recommended Jul 11, 2026
[h3] Please don't buy this piece of crap [/h3] Is the game bad? No, but it comes with EA's launcher which is for some reason [b] NOT ALLOWING ME TO OPEN MY GAME. [/b] Even buying it on a sale is wasted money.
Recommended Jul 10, 2026
it is really fun

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