Which Need for Speed game is set in the city of Ventura Bay?

Need for Speed (2015) is set in the fictional city of Ventura Bay.

Ventura Bay is the main open-world setting of the 2015 Need for Speed reboot. The fictional Southern California city includes urban streets, industrial areas, a port, mountain roads, and canyon routes. Its environment is based broadly on Los Angeles and the surrounding West Coast landscape.

The game was developed by Ghost Games and released for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in November 2015, with a Windows version following in March 2016. Its story is organized around five overlapping themes: Speed, Style, Build, Crew, and Outlaw. Progress comes from earning reputation through races, drifting, car customization, group driving, and police pursuits.

Ventura Bay is easy to confuse with settings from nearby series entries. Need for Speed: Payback uses Fortune Valley, Need for Speed: Heat uses Palm City, and Need for Speed: Unbound uses Lakeshore. The unnumbered title is officially called Need for Speed, but players and reference works commonly add “2015” to distinguish it from the franchise as a whole.