Need for Speed™ Most Wanted
Right now
Steam players since we started tracking · updated 04:45 UTCPlayers over time
- Latest
- 86 players
- Peak · 48h
- 273 players
- Average · 48h
- 159 players
- Lowest · 48h
- 74 players
Oct 28, 2026, 4:45 AM: 86 players
- +12%Players since 06:00 UTC, our first reading in the last 24 hours.
- 242Today’s peak was 181% above the current count.
Highest monthly peak on record, in Nov 2020. The most we have counted ourselves since Oct 26, 2026 is 273.
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 26, 2026 | 162 | -36%-91 | 273 |
| September | 253 | -56%-316 | 545 |
| Augustbest month | 569 | +159%+349 | 1,424 |
| July | 220 | +7.3%+15 | 784 |
| June | 205 | -1%-2 | 466 |
| May | 207 | +3.5%+7 | 475 |
| April | 200 | -20%-51 | 507 |
| March | 251 | +5.5%+13 | 617 |
| February | 238 | -0.4%-1 | 557 |
| January | 239 | -5.2%-13 | 549 |
| 2025 | |||
| December | 252 | +24%+49 | 542 |
| November | 203 | +15%+26 | 516 |
Show all 76 months
| Month | Average players | Change from the month before | Peak players |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | |||
| October | 177 | -10%-20 | 424 |
| September | 197 | -15%-35 | 465 |
| August | 232 | +13%+26 | 532 |
| July | 206 | +8.4%+16 | 409 |
| June | 190 | -14%-31 | 382 |
| May | 221 | +5.7%+12 | 474 |
| April | 209 | -35%-112 | 430 |
| March | 321 | +23%+60 | 920 |
| February | 261 | +12%+27 | 662 |
| January | 234 | -27%-85 | 592 |
| 2024 | |||
| December | 319 | +49%+105 | 749 |
| November | 214 | +27%+46 | 689 |
| October | 168 | -20%-41 | 349 |
| September | 209 | -31%-93 | 534 |
| August | 302 | +30%+69 | 900 |
| July | 233 | +38%+64 | 486 |
| June | 169 | -40%-113 | 437 |
| May | 282 | +49%+93 | 665 |
| April | 189 | -40%-125 | 445 |
| March | 314 | +9.8%+28 | 836 |
| February | 286 | -5.6%-17 | 691 |
| January | 303 | +1%+3 | 912 |
| 2023 | |||
| December | 300 | +48%+97 | 1,030 |
| November | 203 | +31%+48 | 572 |
| October | 155 | -42%-110 | 545 |
| September | 265 | +165%+165 | 690 |
| August | 100 | -4.8%-5 | 184 |
| July | 105 | +5%+5 | 189 |
| June | 100 | +6.4%+6 | 183 |
| May | 94 | -10%-11 | 188 |
| April | 105 | +4%+4 | 198 |
| March | 101 | -12%-14 | 212 |
| February | 115 | -32%-54 | 247 |
| January | 169 | -2.3%-4 | 399 |
| 2022 | |||
| December | 173 | +27%+37 | 463 |
| November | 136 | +3%+4 | 355 |
| October | 132 | -2.9%-4 | 341 |
| September | 136 | -4.2%-6 | 363 |
| August | 142 | -9.6%-15 | 332 |
| July | 157 | -3.7%-6 | 302 |
| June | 163 | +19%+26 | 355 |
| May | 137 | -3.5%-5 | 361 |
| April | 142 | -23%-42 | 317 |
| March | 184 | -21%-49 | 446 |
| February | 233 | -36%-133 | 564 |
| January | 366 | +9.9%+33 | 1,151 |
| 2021 | |||
| December | 333 | +182%+215 | 1,223 |
| November | 118 | -15%-21 | 387 |
| October | 139 | +14%+17 | 417 |
| September | 122 | -1.6%-2 | 385 |
| August | 124 | +29%+28 | 254 |
| July | 96 | -44%-75 | 217 |
| June | 171 | +46%+54 | 387 |
| May | 117 | +15%+15 | 434 |
| April | 102 | -20%-26 | 199 |
| March | 128 | -32%-61 | 263 |
| February | 189 | -27%-71 | 388 |
| January | 260 | -30%-110 | 537 |
| 2020 | |||
| December | 370 | +23%+69 | 1,791 |
| November | 301 | +118%+163 | 1,934 |
| October | 138 | +52%+47 | 487 |
| September | 91 | -25%-30 | 266 |
| August | 121 | -14%-19 | 437 |
| July | 140 | — | 340 |
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
- 569 players on average
- August 2026
- All-time peak
- 1,934 players at once
- November 2020
- Last 12 months
- +8.7%
- 251 players on average, against 231 the year before
September 2026: 253 players on average, peak 545 · 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: 42% above its trend, over 5 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
- Oct 30, 2012
- All-time peak reached
- Nov 2020 · 1,934
- Tracked by PixelKrypt since
- Oct 26, 2026
- Steam app id
- 1262560
