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Need for Speed™ Heat - Xbox One
About
A thrilling race experience pits you against a city’s rogue police force as you battle your way into street racing’s elite. Hustle by day and risk it all at night in Need for Speed™ Heat, a white-knuckle street racer, where the lines of the law fade as the sun starts to set. By day, Palm City hosts the Speedhunter Showdown, a sanctioned competition where you...
- Platform
- Steam (PC)
- Developer
- Ghost Games
- Publisher
- Electronic Arts
- Release date
- 4 Jun, 2020
- Languages
- Genres
- Action, Adventure, Racing, Sports
- Product type
- Digital key / activates on Steam
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Description
Hustle by day and risk it all at night in Need for Speed™ Heat, a white-knuckle street racer, where the lines of the law fade as the sun starts to set. By day, Palm City hosts the Speedhunter Showdown, a sanctioned competition where you earn Bank to customize and upgrade your high-performance cars. At night, ramp up the intensity in illicit street races that build your reputation, getting you access to bigger races and better parts. But stay ready – cops are waiting and not all of them play fair.
The Deluxe Edition comes with:
- K.S Edition Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X Starter Car, available at start in player garage
- 3 additional K.S Edition cars unlocked through progression
- 4 exclusive character outfits — swappable and fit both male and female avatars
- REP rewards increased by 5%
- BANK rewards increased by 5%

Need for Speed Heat is Crossplay enabled.
System Requirements
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS
- Windows 10
- Processor
- FX-6350 or Equivalent; Core i5-3570 or Equivalent
- Memory
- 8 GB RAM
- Graphics
- AMD: Radeon 7970/Radeon R9 280x or Equivalent; NVIDIA: GeForce GTX 760 or Equivalent
- DirectX
- Version 11
- Storage
- 50 GB available space
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS
- Windows 10
- Processor
- Ryzen 3 1300X or Equivalent; Core i7-4790 or Equivalent
- Memory
- 16 GB RAM
- Graphics
- AMD: Radeon RX 480 or Equivalent; NVIDIA: GeForce GTX 1060 or Equivalent
- DirectX
- Version 11
- Network
- Broadband Internet connection
- Storage
- 50 GB available space
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Best Reviews
👎 Not Recommended · Steam player · 27 Jun 2026
the "laggy cutscene" is this something about nvidia drivers? or windows 11? so many people having same problem w me for a long time.. weirdly enough cpu and gpu usage can spike to 99% for long period of time so weird i only just want this game works fine but it isnt btw idk why the graphics looks somewhat outdated and kinda jaggies/pixelated i play on ultra 2k monitor btw maybe thats the problem like i should play on 1080p monitor or smaller inch monitor idk
11 found this helpful
👍 Recommended · Steam player · 30 Jun 2026
Highly enjoyable arcade racer with excellent car customization, a fun risk reward day night system, and exciting police chases that make nighttime driving especially fun, even if the story and progression can feel a bit repetitive over time or weak still great game.
9 found this helpful
👍 Recommended · Steam player · 6 Jul 2026
NFS Heat would have been better if EA and Ghost Games did not remove the Honda, Triumph and BMW bikes in the final game (except for BMW eventually getting its own bike fully appearing in NFS Unbound), but nevertheless, this was probably have been the best NFS game ever from the era of Ghost Games, and this was also Ghost Games's final work on NFS as they're becoming EA Gothenburg, and the next NFS (Unbound) is instead made by Criterion, and it's just NFS Heat 2, you know what I'm saying...
7 found this helpful
Recent Reviews
👍 Recommended · Steam player · 27 Jul 2026
Great game, but some weird ahh physics. Like why can i break metal poles screwed into cement, and break full brick walls. But when i hit one little tiny stick i fly up into the air and it ruins my race >:( Great Grafics tho.
0 found this helpful
👍 Recommended · Steam player · 27 Jul 2026
Great game! I love the arcade style of driving, and with races and running from cops, this game is just to good. The campaign kinda sucks though, to short.
0 found this helpful
👍 Recommended · Steam player · 26 Jul 2026
i really like the game so much and i recommend it to others( story felt little short )
0 found this helpful