Need for Speed™ Heat on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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.

Need for Speed™ Heat is a racing, multiplayer and open world game developed by Ghost Games and published by Electronic Arts.
Released on June 04th 2020 is available only on Windows in 13 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Arabic, Japanese, Polish and Russian.

It has received 130,435 reviews of which 109,388 were positive and 21,047 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.3 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 69.99€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Need for Speed™ Heat into these genres:

Racing Multiplayer Open World Driving Action Singleplayer Co-op Adventure Combat Racing Atmospheric Online Co-Op Third Person Arcade Controller Sports PvP First-Person Character Customization Destruction Split Screen

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System requirements

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Windows

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

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Jan. 2025

Best nfs from the 2010's! Decent car list, alright story, runs well.. nitros, well that one is weird a bit... but can get used to it. if you want a modern nfs buy this one, when it's on its usual huge sale definitely worth every penny. also look at player numbers... heat got more players still than unbound .. just saying...

Jan. 2025

MUTE the music in the game, open your Spotify/YT Music and listen your F&F/NFS MW 2005/NFS UNGRD2 playlists. Personally, I liked only 2 songs in the game. Gameplay is kinda funny and entertaining

Dec. 2024

TL;DR: Got it on 95% discount (3,49€) and I can't recommend buying it for a price above it. CONS - The amount of grinding in this game is absolutely ridiculous: money & rep - The storyline is incredibly cringe and everyone is on the edge all the time, was it directed by Michael Bay? - The exit option from the menu sometimes doesn't work, just ALT + F4 - It connects to your EA account and that stuff, why bro? - Why don't paintjobs show on car previews? - Why are all characters ugly? why can I switch between them but don't save their outfits? Why are there so many outfits that are recolors of one another but still like 4 haircuts (from 100 something) (clothes are also pretty ugly since they are recolors) - Cops are insanely overpowered, like you will not outrun them, never, you genuinely have a mod to cap their speed at 190 km/h, 1 9 0 KM/H, HOW BRO? How does a stock police car outrun a Corvette? They are not even affected by the difficulty level of the game - Poorly optimized, there are performance issues and it is hard to reach 60 avg fps for my poor toaster, also, are there any difference between low and high quality? Am I blind? you gain 12 avg FPS increase by doing so, so i'ts something I guess. - You have an orientative rating to see if you are prepared for a race or not.. man, did someone genuinely use Math.Random()? I have a 250 car that loses a 140 race but easily wins a 230 one... bear in mind upgrades can give you from 8-12 of this points and you need 2-3 races to buy an upgrade - The controls? This is the single worst thing I've experienced. Drifting and accelerating is on the same trigger and inputs won't sometimes register, I won't say having my rx7 trying to drift and suddenly accelerating off a cliff ain't funny... but I'm getting really tired. PROS - Mods can fix the police and there are various mods that multiply reputation and money - Car personalization is really cool and there's a lot of variation - 144 cars, pretty good - Community painting jobs are insane, you guys make some insane stuff (specially Initial D stuff, huge fan) - Is acceleration OP?

Aug. 2024

---{ 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 ☑ Hamster ---{ 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

July 2024

one of the best nfs games after underground1/2 and most wanted. -the car control may seem a little strange in the first days, but you will get used to it and appreciate it later. the game has a small problem with CPU optimization, it is a CPU Eater, which means it eats between 70-95% of a new generation processor, but if you limit it to 4 cores and 8 threads, it will work just as well, but it will consume less cpu. I recommend using the "user.cfg" file in the game folder. Rating 8/10

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69.99€

8.3

109,388

21,047

Online players

2,256

Developer

Ghost Games

Publisher

Electronic Arts

Release 04 Jun 2020

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