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Need for Speed™ Payback

Steam App 1262580

Need for Speed™ Payback

A 2020 Steam game in Action / Adventure / Racing.

GamersPilot average

74/100

Release

Jun 18, 2020 (2020 →)

Genres

Action / Adventure / Racing / Sports / Strategy

Steam price now

$29.99

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Tracked by GamersPilot since Oct 22, 2026

Oct 22, 2026$29.99regular price

Score sources

Critic and player scores

Metacritic

Professional critic aggregate

62

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Steam users

29,886 player reviews

85

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PC Benchmark & Hardware

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Minimum Requirements

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
Storage
30 GB available
DirectX
Version 11

Recommended Requirements

OS
64-bit Windows 10 or later
Processor
Intel i5 4690K @ 3.5GHz or AMD FX 8350 @ 4.0GHz with 4 hardware threads
Memory
8 GB RAM
Graphics
AMD Radeon™ RX 480 4GB, NVIDIA GeForce® GTX 1060 6GB or equivalent DX11 compatible GPU with 4GB of memory
Storage
30 GB available
DirectX
Version 11

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How hard is Need for Speed™ Payback to 100%?

The average achievement in Need for Speed™ Payback is earned by 19.5% of players across its 57 achievements — harder to complete than 51% of the 2,026 Steam games in our achievement dataset. Its rarest achievement is held by 1.9% of players.

Achievements
57
Average unlock rate
19.5%
Rarest achievement
1.9%
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