Which Need for Speed game features 'Fortune Valley' as its setting?

Need for Speed: Payback features Fortune Valley as its setting. The fictional region combines a major city with deserts, mountain roads, canyons, and smaller settlements, giving the game several distinct driving environments in one open world.

Fortune Valley is divided into areas including Silver Rock, Liberty Desert, Silver Canyon, and Mount Providence. The map is designed around Payback's action-movie tone, with races, off-road events, police pursuits, speed runs, and missions spread across contrasting terrain.

The setting is fictional rather than a direct recreation of one real American location. Its visual design draws on familiar southwestern landscapes: dry desert highways, neon-lit urban districts, winding mountain roads, and rocky canyon routes. That variety is why the game can move from city racing to off-road competition without changing worlds.

A common mix-up is confusing Fortune Valley with Palm City, the setting of Need for Speed Heat, or with Ventura Bay, the setting of the 2015 Need for Speed reboot. Payback was released in 2017 and is built around the crew of Tyler, Mac, and Jess.