Steady crowd
Need for Speed™ Payback
Right now
Steam players since we started tracking · updated 19:50 UTCPlaying now
272
at 19:50 UTC
24-hour peak
317
All-time peak
12,152
in Sep 2022 · SteamCharts
24h change
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needs 48 h of data
Twitch viewers
41
live on Twitch
Best price
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Players over time
What stands out
- +199%Players since 04:00 UTC, our first reading in the last 24 hours.
- 15Twitch viewers for every 100 players on Steam.
- 317Today’s peak was 17% above the current count.
All-time peak
12,152
Highest monthly peak on record, in Sep 2022, from SteamCharts. The most we have counted ourselves since Oct 27, 2026 is 317.
Month by month
Average and peak players per month · SteamCharts (used with permission) for complete months, our own Steam counts after that| Month | Avg. players | Gain | % Gain | Peak players |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2026 (from Oct 27, 2026) · our count | 184 | -117 | -39% | 317 |
| September 2026 | 301 | -428 | -59% | 636 |
| August 2026 | 729 | 506 | +227% | 1,842 |
| July 2026 | 223 | 2 | +0.9% | 579 |
| June 2026 | 221 | -51 | -19% | 445 |
| May 2026 | 272 | -7 | -2.5% | 612 |
| April 2026 | 279 | -93 | -25% | 589 |
| March 2026 | 372 | 75 | +25% | 993 |
| February 2026 | 297 | -44 | -13% | 633 |
| January 2026 | 341 | 21 | +6.6% | 827 |
| December 2025 | 320 | 72 | +29% | 785 |
| November 2025 | 248 | 8 | +3.3% | 586 |
Show all 77 months
| Month | Avg. players | Gain | % Gain | Peak players |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2025 | 240 | -38 | -14% | 546 |
| September 2025 | 278 | -192 | -41% | 574 |
| August 2025 | 470 | 189 | +67% | 1,117 |
| July 2025 | 281 | 25 | +9.8% | 724 |
| June 2025 | 256 | -42 | -14% | 502 |
| May 2025 | 298 | 35 | +13% | 682 |
| April 2025 | 263 | -72 | -21% | 563 |
| March 2025 | 335 | -36 | -9.7% | 842 |
| February 2025 | 371 | 22 | +6.3% | 914 |
| January 2025 | 349 | -110 | -24% | 815 |
| December 2024 | 459 | 145 | +46% | 1,006 |
| November 2024 | 314 | 34 | +12% | 823 |
| October 2024 | 280 | -66 | -19% | 610 |
| September 2024 | 346 | -155 | -31% | 728 |
| August 2024 | 501 | 11 | +2.2% | 1,362 |
| July 2024 | 490 | 188 | +62% | 1,091 |
| June 2024 | 302 | -184 | -38% | 868 |
| May 2024 | 486 | 88 | +22% | 1,144 |
| April 2024 | 398 | -257 | -39% | 944 |
| March 2024 | 655 | -98 | -13% | 1,597 |
| February 2024 | 753 | 113 | +18% | 1,930 |
| January 2024 | 640 | -121 | -16% | 1,695 |
| December 2023 | 761 | -257 | -25% | 1,895 |
| November 2023 | 1,018 | 559 | +122% | 3,236 |
| October 2023 | 459 | -129 | -22% | 2,628 |
| September 2023 | 588 | 383 | +187% | 1,541 |
| August 2023 | 205 | -15 | -6.8% | 373 |
| July 2023 | 220 | -24 | -9.8% | 395 |
| June 2023 | 244 | -4 | -1.6% | 442 |
| May 2023 | 248 | 24 | +11% | 532 |
| April 2023 | 224 | -1 | -0.4% | 425 |
| March 2023 | 225 | -35 | -13% | 476 |
| February 2023 | 260 | -113 | -30% | 507 |
| January 2023 | 373 | -73 | -16% | 794 |
| December 2022 | 446 | -52 | -10% | 905 |
| November 2022 | 498 | -328 | -40% | 1,183 |
| October 2022 | 826 | -2,986 | -78% | 2,315 |
| September 2022 | 3,812 | 3,645 | +2,183% | 12,152 |
| August 2022 | 167 | -60 | -26% | 312 |
| July 2022 | 227 | -8 | -3.4% | 443 |
| June 2022 | 235 | 66 | +39% | 513 |
| May 2022 | 169 | 6 | +3.7% | 447 |
| April 2022 | 163 | -44 | -21% | 382 |
| March 2022 | 207 | -52 | -20% | 486 |
| February 2022 | 259 | -18 | -6.5% | 626 |
| January 2022 | 277 | 6 | +2.2% | 655 |
| December 2021 | 271 | 39 | +17% | 633 |
| November 2021 | 232 | -73 | -24% | 723 |
| October 2021 | 305 | 31 | +11% | 1,023 |
| September 2021 | 274 | -229 | -46% | 859 |
| August 2021 | 503 | 159 | +46% | 1,448 |
| July 2021 | 344 | -93 | -21% | 777 |
| June 2021 | 437 | 219 | +100% | 871 |
| May 2021 | 218 | 35 | +19% | 981 |
| April 2021 | 183 | -100 | -35% | 364 |
| March 2021 | 283 | -171 | -38% | 658 |
| February 2021 | 454 | -223 | -33% | 904 |
| January 2021 | 677 | 276 | +69% | 1,417 |
| December 2020 | 401 | 130 | +48% | 1,173 |
| November 2020 | 271 | -107 | -28% | 839 |
| October 2020 | 378 | 136 | +56% | 1,492 |
| September 2020 | 242 | 16 | +7.1% | 712 |
| August 2020 | 226 | 82 | +57% | 1,065 |
| July 2020 | 144 | -45 | -24% | 355 |
| June 2020 | 189 | — | — | 311 |
Long-term history
Month by month from before we started counting: players from SteamCharts, plus Steam reviews and Wikipedia views, which follow interest rather than player numbers.
Busiest monthSep 20223,812
Highest monthly peakSep 202212,152
Last 12 months vs the 12 before-3%
- average players
- peak players
Average and peak concurrent Steam players per month from SteamCharts, used with permission. The month in progress is left out.
Prices
No prices tracked for this game yet.
On Twitch
Live viewers and channels, hourly averages in the last 24 hours
41
viewers now
44
peak hour, last 24 h
7
live channels
6
viewers per channel
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 10, 2017
- All-time peak reached
- Sep 2022 · 12,152
- Tracked by PixelKrypt since
- Oct 27, 2026
- Steam app id
- 1262580
