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Need for Speed™ Most Wanted

Legacy Mobile Device • 2020

Should you play it?

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.

What works

  • Nostalgic and fun open-world racing
  • Good graphics and car sounds for its age
  • Accessible driving mechanics
  • Active multiplayer and leaderboards
  • Runs well on low-end pcs

Things to keep in mind

  • Lack of story and character depth
  • Minimal car customization
  • Rubberbanding ai and occasional bugs
  • Some grind and repetitive races
  • Dlc cars locked behind paywall

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • WRC 7 FIA World Rally Championship

  • WRC 6 FIA World Rally Championship

  • Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit

  • WRC 4 FIA World Rally Championship

  • FlatOut

  • Need for Speed: Shift

More expressive

Games that feels like Need for Speed™ Most Wanted but with more self-expression and customization

  • Need for Speed™ Heat

  • Need for Speed™ Payback

  • Kanjozoku Game レーサー Online Street Racing & Drift

  • NASCAR '15 Victory Edition

  • Forza Horizon 5

  • The Crew Motorfest

More creative

Games that feels like Need for Speed™ Most Wanted but with more room to create and customize

  • Assetto Corsa

  • Crashday Redline Edition

  • DRIFT CE

  • GT Legends

  • GTR 2 FIA GT Racing Game

  • Automobilista

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  • Bars: the main motivational differences versus this game.
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Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
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  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Swipe to compare nearby games with Need for Speed™ Most Wanted. These titles are not in What to play next.

Need for Speed™ Most Wanted: Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Competition, Status, Story, Fantasy. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Exploration. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Creativity, Expression.

Last update: 21/08/2026