Need for Speed™ Payback

Set in the underworld of Fortune Valley, you and your crew were divided by betrayal and reunited by revenge to take down The House, a nefarious cartel that rules the city’s casinos, criminals and cops. In this corrupt gambler’s paradise, the stakes are high and The House always wins.

Need for Speed™ Payback is a racing, open world and multiplayer game developed by Ghost Games and published by Electronic Arts.
Released on June 18th 2020 is available only on Windows in 11 languages: English, French, Spanish - Spain, Italian, German, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.

It has received 27,738 reviews of which 23,776 were positive and 3,962 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.4 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 4.49€ on Steam and has a 85% discount.

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

Racing Open World Multiplayer Combat Racing Controller Sports PvP Sandbox Arcade Third Person First-Person Strategy Offroad Vehicular Combat Simulation Co-op Atmospheric Online Co-Op Singleplayer Action

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Requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS *: 64-bit Windows 7 or later
Processor: Intel i3 6300 @ 3.8GHz or AMD FX 8150 @ 3.6GHz with 4 hardware threads
Memory: 6 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce® GTX 750 Ti or AMD Radeon™ HD 7850 or equivalent DX11 compatible GPU with 2GB of memory
DirectX: Version 11
Network: Broadband Internet connection
Storage: 30 GB available space

Reviews

Explore reviews from Steam users sharing their experiences and what they love about the game.

Oct. 2024

Need For Speed Payback might be the best NFS title of the last decade after Heat. The game got almost everything. Especially the story was good. For me, this is the only game after Most Wanted 2005 that has a decent story. All that rival races, the factions, trash talks, inclusion of more characters everything adds up. Graphics are good, apparently i don't see a major difference when compared to Heat in terms of graphics. The only thing the game don't have is better cop system. There is no cops patrolling and no cop chases except for unmissable story missions also you can avoid cops with your eyes closed there is no challenge. Story 9/10 Graphics 8.5/10 Soundtracks 8.5/10 Gameplay 9/10 Physics 8.5/10 Overall a fun action packed Need for speed, 8.5/10

Sept. 2024

---{Graphics}--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☑ Beautiful ☐ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ Atari ---{Gameplay}--- ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ It‘s just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch video instead ☐ Just don't ---{Audio}--- ☑ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ I'm now deaf ☐ My ears bleeding ---{Audience}--- ☐ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☐ All ---{PC Requirements}--- ☐ Toast Machine ☐ Potato ☑ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich ☐ Nasa ---{Difficulity}--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☑ Easy ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{Grind}--- ☐ Nothing to grind ☑ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isnt 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 ☐ Better than your life ---{Game Time}--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☐ Average ☑ Long ☐ Infinity ---{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 ☐ Cyberbug 2077 ---{?/10}--- ☐1 ☐2 ☐3 ☐4 ☐5 ☐6 ☐7 ☑8 ☐9 ☐10

July 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 ---{ 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 ---{ Author }--- ☑ https://vojtastruhar.github.io/steam-review-template

June 2024

So... Payback. When it launched it got hated for it's speedcards system, but now? Honestly, it's a pretty fun game. I had a good time, the driving's fun and the campaign is long enough to give you stuff to do, but not too long to get boring. But of course, Payback is far from perfect, and it has some glaring issues. This includes: speedcards (Yes, they still suck), the reset system (janky as hell, and it never feels right) and the main gripe, the offroad physics. They are atrocious, and i never got used to them throughout the whole career. Your car understeers and oversteers depending on it's mood, and some of the offroad races will literally turn you into the joker. That being said. despite it's shortcomings, it's a good game. Definetly better than 2015. Play it if you got it, if you don't buy it on sale, it's fun :)

Dec. 2023

Locate the savegame Save game location at My Documents, the folder name Need for Speed(TM) Payback. Delete it. Deactivate the Auto-Sync 1. Start steam online and launch your origin launcher. 2. Disconnect your internet or use airplane mode. 3. Start the game. 4. Steam will say they failed to loaded the save because your internet off and ask you wanna play anyway, click yes. 5. The game will launch and you can see it will show the prologue again. 6. In here you already can connect your internet again, the game will automatically replace the old save with new save after you quit the game

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-85% 29.99€ 4.49€

8.4

23,776

3,962

Online players

607

Developer

Ghost Games

Publisher

Electronic Arts

Release 18 Jun 2020

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