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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.
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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.
Need for Speed™ Unbound is a racing, multiplayer and open world game
developed by Criterion Games
and published by Electronic Arts.
Released on December 01st 2022 is available only on Windows
in 12 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Arabic, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.
It has received 50,503 reviews of which 30,807 were positive and 19,696 were negative resulting in a rating of 6.1 out of 10. 😐
The game is currently priced at 69.99€ on Steam.
The Steam community has classified Need for Speed™ Unbound into these genres:
Racing
Multiplayer
Open World
Driving
Singleplayer
Action
Character Customization
Controller
Combat Racing
Arcade
Online Co-Op
Casual
Simulation
Sports
Adventure
Atmospheric
Anime
Split Screen
Music
Immersive
Here is the detailed breakdown of supported languages for Need for Speed™ Unbound:
| UI | Subtitle | Audio | |
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| English | |||
| German | |||
| French | |||
| Italian | |||
| Korean | |||
| Spanish - Spain | |||
| Simplified Chinese | |||
| Traditional Chinese | |||
| Japanese | |||
| Polish | |||
| Portuguese - Brazil | |||
| Arabic |
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10 64-bit
- Processor: Ryzen 5 2600, Core i5-8600
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: RX 570, GTX 1050 Ti
- DirectX: Version 12
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 50 GB available space
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---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☑ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☑ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☑ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☐ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☑ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- ☐ Floppy Disk ☐ Old Fashioned ☑ Workable ☐ Big ☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive ☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it ☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☐ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☑ Isn't necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☑ Some lore ☐ Average ☐ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☑ Average ☐ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☐ Worth the price ☑ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☐ Never heard of ☑ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☑ 7 ☐ 8 ☐ 9 ☐ 10
Very *ok*. The handling is awkward, the story is lackluster and the soundtrack is hit or miss in a way that the good songs are sort of okay and the bad ones make you want to cut your ears off. And I still enjoyed it more than Heat. The artstyle is genuinely the best thing about this game. Buy it when it inevitably goes on sale for like 5 bucks lol.
This game is pretty good actually. There are so few good arcade racers nowadays, you really don't have a lot of options. I like Forza Horizon but even that game gets stale, and the "story" is kinda ass in Forza. Unbound is different, it has an actual story and singleplayer mode, it doesn't shower you with dozens or cars like Forza, so you really are driving your primary vehicle a lot. I'm into hiphop and I like in game soundtrack, but I do realize the genre selection is kinda narrow. I don't mind the dialogue but I get why it can be considered as "cringe". (not as bad as in 2015 though lol) The gameplay feels nice, the cops are fairly challenging especially on Heat levels 4 and 5, I really like the risk and reward mechanics in the campaign, it makes the experience engaging and fun. The game looks good too, the juxtaposition of real looking environments and cartoony characters works in its favor. Performance is great, no shader struggle or stutters or anything like that. Frostbite engine is (mostly) good in that regard. TLDR: good game, worse than golden era games but still worth it especially with a discount
Unbound leans heavily into the love it or hate it category of NFS titles. I personally think that it does a lot of things well, such as vehicle specific tuning, more crazy customization options, and longer post launch support. That doesn't mean there aren't negatives as well, with many people not finding the art style appealing (I don't mind it) or the handling physics. The biggest con to me is that post launch support is almost exclusively for Lakeshore online, meaning that single player lacks a lot of content from new updates, such as the most recent drag and drift update that completely re-hauled drifting. Single player is super repetitive with its day and night cycle that progresses through a calendar week four times before the grand finale. It is also completely separate from online, meaning that cars do not carry over and you have to unlock them through other means. Despite this, I do think that online is the best it's ever been in any NFS title. This game is definitely one that grew on me over time, and I think it actually is possibly the best modern NFS title, overtaking NFS Heat.
this game is good, if you wana have a sook over the cartoony effects just turn them off the team has done a great job of keeping the game alive and little content drops to give you a reason to come back only issue is the EA laucher is dog#### and half the time will refuse to launch a game, PLEASE JUST LET US LAUNCH THOUGH STEAM IN THE NEXT ONE
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Frequently Asked Questions
Need for Speed™ Unbound is currently priced at 69.99€ on Steam.
No, Need for Speed™ Unbound is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 69.99€ on Steam.
Yes, Need for Speed™ Unbound received 30,807 positive votes out of a total of 50,503 achieving a rating of 6.06.
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Need for Speed™ Unbound was developed by Criterion Games and published by Electronic Arts.
Yes, Need for Speed™ Unbound is playable and fully supported on Windows.
No, Need for Speed™ Unbound is not playable on MacOS.
No, Need for Speed™ Unbound is not playable on Linux.
No, Need for Speed™ Unbound is not playable on Steam Deck.
No, Need for Speed™ Unbound is not playable on Steam Machine.
No, Need for Speed™ Unbound does not support VR.
Need for Speed™ Unbound offers both single-player and multi-player modes.
Need for Speed™ Unbound offers both Co-op and PvP modes.
Yes, there are 19 DLCs available for Need for Speed™ Unbound. Explore additional content available for Need for Speed™ Unbound on Steam.
No, Need for Speed™ Unbound does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
No, Need for Speed™ Unbound does not support Steam Remote Play.
No, Need for Speed™ Unbound does not currently support Steam Family Sharing.
You can find solutions or submit a support ticket by visiting the Steam Support page for Need for Speed™ Unbound.
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| Steam price | 12 November 2026 20:11 UTC |
| Steam reviews | 08 May 2025 19:50 UTC |
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Online players
425
Developer
Criterion Games
Publisher
Electronic Arts
Release
01 Dec 2022
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