Review

Forza Horizon 6

An open-world racing game set in Japan, with hundreds of licensed cars and a festival that frames the driving. You race, explore the map, collect cars and customise garages. You can drive with friends online and build your own events with creative tools. Is it your kind of game?

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8/10

Game Avant verdict

A genuinely bigger, bolder Forza Horizon built around one dense, real city, held back at launch by a rollout that leaves PlayStation owners waiting.

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By GameAvant · Published Sep 28, 2026 · Updated Oct 9, 2026 · 15 min read

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86%

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82%

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you want to cruise and race across an open map with a huge car list.

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you want a strict racing sim or a serious career structure.

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Platforms: Xbox · PC · PlayStation
Release date: May 19, 2026
Length: About 22 hours
Difficulty: 3/5 (estimated)
Genres: Racing · Simulator · Sport · Arcade
Themes: Action · Open world
Perspective: First person · Third person
Modes: Online up to 12
Languages: 7 languages
Text in your language: Yes
Steam Deck: Verified
Microtransactions: None
Crossplay: PC · Xbox

More about Forza Horizon 6

Forza Horizon 6 is the entry where Playground Games stopped building an entire country and started building a single city instead. Released on 19 May 2026 for Xbox Series X|S and PC, available through both Steam and the Microsoft Store, and developed with assistance from Turn 10 Studios, it trades the regional patchwork structure every previous Horizon game relied on, stitching together deserts, forests, coastlines and small towns into one country-sized map, for a single, continuous urban setting: Tokyo City, the largest and most structurally ambitious map the franchise has ever attempted to build. That one decision is simultaneously the best thing about the entire game and the clearest reason to approach the launch with some real caution. Set in an actual, specific real-world city rather than a fictional regional stand-in the way most earlier Horizon games handled their settings, Forza Horizon 6 is effectively asking a different design question than its predecessors did. Forza Horizon 5 was fundamentally about how many distinct landscapes could be convincingly stitched together into a single believable country, jungle, desert, volcano and colonial town all coexisting within driving distance of each other. Forza Horizon 6 asks something closer to the opposite question: how much genuine city can you build before the result stops feeling like an actual city and starts feeling like a collection of racing circuits wearing an urban skin. The answer the game lands on is a map roughly five times the physical size of Forza Horizon 5's Guanajuato setting, which was already comfortably the largest map the series had ever produced before this one arrived. That scale claim is not marketing exaggeration; it holds up when actually driven across, and the density of the city itself, distinct neighbourhoods, elevated expressways, narrow backstreets, and genuine landmark architecture, gives the scale real texture rather than simply padding empty space between points of interest. What that map does with its scale is genuinely impressive from a pure production standpoint: Tokyo City is built with the kind of architectural and neighbourhood-level variety that makes driving through it feel meaningfully different block to block, rather than relying on a handful of repeated building templates stretched across a huge area to simulate density. That alone represents a real technical and design achievement the franchise had not previously attempted at this scale. What holds the overall package back at launch is everything surrounding that achievement rather than the map itself. The actual roster of content available to drive, race, and interact with on day one is thinner than past Horizon launches have delivered, and the sense that the game's systems and activities have not yet caught up to the ambition of its setting is difficult to avoid. Compounding that gap directly, the game launched exclusively for Xbox platforms and PC, with no PlayStation version announced or available, meaning roughly half the open-world racing audience that has followed the series in recent years is left waiting entirely on the sidelines at launch. Judged purely as a feat of map design and city-building ambition, this is the boldest thing the series has ever attempted, and it mostly succeeds at that specific, difficult goal. Judged as a complete package ready for its full audience on day one, it is a genuinely bigger and bolder Forza Horizon held back by a rollout that does not yet match the scale of what it built.

The thing you'll love. Or hate.

One city, no countryside gaps

Mountain roads over map padding

Xbox and PC now, PlayStation later

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Frequently asked questions

How long is Forza Horizon 6?: About 22 hours to finish the main story.
Which platforms is Forza Horizon 6 on?: Forza Horizon 6 is available on Xbox · PC · PlayStation.
Does Forza Horizon 6 have co-op?: Yes — Online up to 12.
Does Forza Horizon 6 run on Steam Deck?: Verified
What does Forza Horizon 6 cost?: $69.99 on Steam.