Need for Speed™
Right now
Steam players since we started tracking · updated 15:45 UTCPlayers over time
- Latest
- 228 players
- Peak · 48h
- 253 players
- Average · 48h
- 141 players
- Lowest · 48h
- 72 players
Oct 28, 2026, 3:45 PM: 228 players
- -8%Players since 17:00 UTC, our first reading in the last 24 hours.
- 253Today’s peak was 11% above the current count.
Highest monthly peak on record, in Aug 2026. The most we have counted ourselves since Oct 27, 2026 is 253.
Month by month
Average: how many were playing at the same time at an average moment of the month. Peak: the most at once. Steam players since mid-2012, or since the game came out.
| Month | Average players | Change from the month before | Peak players |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | |||
| Octoberfrom Oct 27, 2026 | 140 | -46%-119 | 253 |
| September | 259 | -57%-338 | 571 |
| Augustbest month | 597 | +214%+407 | 1,475 |
| July | 190 | 0%0 | 674 |
| June | 190 | -15%-34 | 382 |
| May | 224 | -5.5%-13 | 496 |
| April | 237 | -34%-121 | 571 |
| March | 358 | +29%+81 | 946 |
| February | 277 | -20%-71 | 655 |
| January | 348 | -26%-120 | 897 |
| 2025 | |||
| December | 468 | +18%+71 | 1,169 |
| November | 397 | +115%+212 | 1,438 |
Show all 77 months
| Month | Average players | Change from the month before | Peak players |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | |||
| October | 185 | -14%-31 | 457 |
| September | 216 | -18%-46 | 520 |
| August | 262 | +17%+38 | 613 |
| July | 224 | +17%+32 | 499 |
| June | 192 | -21%-51 | 439 |
| May | 243 | +14%+30 | 548 |
| April | 213 | -36%-120 | 482 |
| March | 333 | +5.7%+18 | 978 |
| February | 315 | -0.9%-3 | 799 |
| January | 318 | -37%-188 | 964 |
| 2024 | |||
| December | 506 | +124%+280 | 1,121 |
| November | 226 | +34%+57 | 762 |
| October | 169 | -22%-49 | 363 |
| September | 218 | -20%-54 | 605 |
| August | 272 | +23%+50 | 716 |
| July | 222 | +45%+69 | 536 |
| June | 153 | -46%-131 | 464 |
| May | 284 | +31%+67 | 774 |
| April | 217 | -43%-166 | 522 |
| March | 383 | +15%+50 | 1,081 |
| February | 333 | +15%+43 | 907 |
| January | 290 | +7%+19 | 857 |
| 2023 | |||
| December | 271 | +14%+33 | 892 |
| November | 238 | +53%+82 | 625 |
| October | 156 | -41%-107 | 589 |
| September | 263 | +189%+172 | 699 |
| August | 91 | -5.2%-5 | 166 |
| July | 96 | 0%0 | 181 |
| June | 96 | -3%-3 | 199 |
| May | 99 | +7.6%+7 | 209 |
| April | 92 | -2.1%-2 | 184 |
| March | 94 | -14%-15 | 199 |
| February | 109 | -39%-71 | 218 |
| January | 180 | -0.6%-1 | 459 |
| 2022 | |||
| December | 181 | +7.1%+12 | 429 |
| November | 169 | 0%0 | 400 |
| October | 169 | +13%+19 | 467 |
| September | 150 | +6.4%+9 | 410 |
| August | 141 | -9.6%-15 | 346 |
| July | 156 | -8.2%-14 | 310 |
| June | 170 | +29%+38 | 408 |
| May | 132 | +13%+15 | 404 |
| April | 117 | -24%-37 | 266 |
| March | 154 | -21%-42 | 371 |
| February | 196 | +12%+21 | 469 |
| January | 175 | +2.3%+4 | 416 |
| 2021 | |||
| December | 171 | +19%+27 | 431 |
| November | 144 | -28%-55 | 515 |
| October | 199 | +11%+19 | 621 |
| September | 180 | -25%-61 | 602 |
| August | 241 | +7.1%+16 | 589 |
| July | 225 | -35%-119 | 512 |
| June | 344 | +157%+210 | 751 |
| May | 134 | +24%+26 | 653 |
| April | 108 | -41%-74 | 227 |
| March | 182 | -41%-124 | 436 |
| February | 306 | -20%-76 | 654 |
| January | 382 | +39%+107 | 762 |
| 2020 | |||
| December | 275 | +64%+107 | 786 |
| November | 168 | -8.2%-15 | 826 |
| October | 183 | +31%+43 | 629 |
| September | 140 | -13%-20 | 405 |
| August | 160 | -34%-82 | 533 |
| July | 242 | -58%-329 | 640 |
| June | 571 | — | 1,220 |
Players since 2020
Each bar is one month: how many people were playing at the same time, on average. The line above is the month’s peak, the most at once.
- Busiest month
- 597 players on average
- August 2026
- All-time peak
- 1,475 players at once
- August 2026
- Last 12 months
- +15.9%
- 311 players on average, against 268 the year before
September 2026: 259 players on average, peak 571 · Point at a bar for its numbers.
- average players (bars)
- peak players (line)
Average and peak concurrent Steam players per month. The month in progress is in the table above.
- Usually busiest in December: 37% above its trend, over 6 years
Prices
No prices tracked for this game yet.
On Twitch
Not among the streams we track on Twitch right now.
Videos
From YouTubeNo YouTube videos yet. YouTube’s daily quota limits how many games we refresh each day; videos appear after a later update.
About the game
- Release date
- Nov 3, 2015
- All-time peak reached
- Aug 2026 · 1,475
- Tracked by PixelKrypt since
- Oct 27, 2026
- Steam app id
- 1262540
