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Forza Horizon 5

Playground Games · Xbox Game Studios · 2021-11-08

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ActionAdventureRacingSimulationSports

Franchise: Forza · Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative · Perspectives: First person, Third person

Releases: Apr 29, 2025 (PlayStation 5), Nov 09, 2021 (Xbox Series X|S), Nov 09, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Nov 09, 2021 (Xbox One)

Explore the vibrant open world landscapes of Mexico with limitless, fun driving action in the world’s greatest cars.

Forza Horizon 5 is an Action, Adventure, Racing, Simulation game released in 2021, priced at $59.99, with an estimated 5,000,000 .. 10,000,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (89% of 278919 reviews).

6,525
playing now
89%
positive of 283k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
5,000,000–10,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
108
twitch viewers (latest)
2.2
viewers/channel (concentration)
94/100
critic score (11 outlets, IGDB)
85/100
IGDB user rating (350 ratings)
274
Nexus mods (1.1M downloads)
4.01★
PlayStation Store rating (69,506 ratings)
92/100
opencritic · mighty · 100% recommend · from 185 critics
1h
to beat · rushed 1h · completionist 132h
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$59.99
steam price (US)

6,525 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 10:00 UTC (census sample)

Forza Horizon 5 is a 2021 racing game developed by Playground Games and published by Xbox Game Studios. It is the fifth Forza Horizon title, following Forza Horizon 4, and the twelfth main instalment in the Forza series. The game is set in a fictionalised representation of Mexico. It was released on 9 November 2021 for Windows, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S. It marks the final mainline Forza instalment released on Xbox One. The game was also released for PlayStation 5 on 29 April 2025, the first instance of a mainline Forza game being released on a non-Microsoft platform.

Trailer

Forza Horizon 5 trailer thumbnail

Forza Horizon 5 Official Announce Trailer

≈1,000,000 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Cooling
  • · 6,525 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 22,077 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2,760/week).
  • · Review velocity down 41% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 1% of 27,649 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-10-05

Tier history: healthy→cooling (Oct 5), thriving→healthy (Sep 17), healthy→thriving (Sep 16), thriving→healthy (Sep 7), healthy→thriving (Aug 29)

Estimated sales: 5.7M–13M copies

Review-multiple estimate from 283,233 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$0.00

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $23.99 at Microsoft Store (2026-08-25)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $59.99 · on sale 22 of 33 observed days · at its all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
34k34k20212026Week of 2021-11-01: 33,862 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 5,989 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 8,989 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1,423 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 5,707 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 765 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 3,848 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 745 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 2,941 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 436 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 2,934 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 366 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 2,254 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 283 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 3,268 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 402 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 3,535 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 473 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 2,236 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 256 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 2,981 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 353 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 3,057 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 387 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 3,764 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 460 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 3,550 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 496 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 3,846 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 524 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 2,212 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 261 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 3,467 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 545 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 3,349 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 528 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 3,194 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 405 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 4,480 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 622 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 5,829 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 722 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 4,601 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 748 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 3,567 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 408 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 2,585 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 342 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 4,899 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 466 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 4,851 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 656 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 4,601 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 628 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 3,623 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 618 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 4,596 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 634 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 3,463 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 502 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 3,064 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 432 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 4,340 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 584 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 4,240 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 648 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 2,583 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 310 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 3,110 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 388 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 1,931 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 240 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 4,552 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 304 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 4,919 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 547 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 3,507 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 413 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 2,691 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 302 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 3,666 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 488 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 2,711 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 336 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 3,831 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 560 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 4,130 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 653 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 3,996 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 507 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 3,032 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 410 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 2,379 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 325 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 3,211 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 400 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 7,914 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 371 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 4,590 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 515 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 4,229 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 530 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 2,905 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 326 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 2,799 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 324 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 2,815 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 361 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 2,910 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 348 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 2,658 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 274 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 2,137 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 243 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 1,727 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 205 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 1,832 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 213 negativeWeek of 2026-10-01: 1,008 positiveWeek of 2026-10-01: 97 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

14k1.2k2026-09-15 11:00 — 5,924 players2026-09-15 23:00 — 2,449 players2026-09-16 01:00 — 1,234 players2026-09-16 03:00 — 2,749 players2026-09-16 05:00 — 3,686 players2026-09-16 07:00 — 3,327 players2026-09-16 09:00 — 4,431 players2026-09-16 12:00 — 6,410 players2026-09-16 15:00 — 8,078 players2026-09-16 17:00 — 5,691 players2026-09-16 19:00 — 4,337 players2026-09-16 21:00 — 3,365 players2026-09-17 00:00 — 2,403 players2026-09-17 11:00 — 5,734 players2026-09-18 19:00 — 5,767 players2026-09-20 02:00 — 3,546 players2026-09-21 10:00 — 4,872 players2026-09-22 17:00 — 5,402 players2026-09-24 01:00 — 2,332 players2026-09-25 08:00 — 6,238 players2026-09-26 16:00 — 7,660 players2026-09-27 23:00 — 2,430 players2026-09-29 07:00 — 3,274 players2026-09-30 14:00 — 7,798 players2026-10-01 22:00 — 2,849 players2026-10-03 05:00 — 7,799 players2026-10-04 14:00 — 13,982 players2026-10-05 21:00 — 3,943 players2026-10-07 05:00 — 6,713 players2026-10-08 12:00 — 10,848 players2026-10-09 20:00 — 6,352 players2026-10-11 03:00 — 7,257 players2026-10-12 11:00 — 7,414 players2026-10-13 18:00 — 5,621 players2026-10-14 10:00 — 6,525 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
40k5.7kNov 2021Aug 2026Nov 2021 — avg 39,903 · peak 80,745Jan 2022 — avg 12,615 · peak 23,344Mar 2022 — avg 7,311 · peak 14,182May 2022 — avg 6,733 · peak 12,308Jul 2022 — avg 8,869 · peak 18,948Sep 2022 — avg 8,406 · peak 16,786Nov 2022 — avg 7,276 · peak 14,515Jan 2023 — avg 9,437 · peak 15,603Mar 2023 — avg 8,348 · peak 24,668May 2023 — avg 9,598 · peak 20,689Jul 2023 — avg 14,223 · peak 27,634Sep 2023 — avg 10,788 · peak 24,051Nov 2023 — avg 8,923 · peak 24,819Jan 2024 — avg 13,350 · peak 26,152Mar 2024 — avg 13,939 · peak 30,668May 2024 — avg 11,553 · peak 23,803Jul 2024 — avg 12,649 · peak 25,600Sep 2024 — avg 10,933 · peak 28,337Nov 2024 — avg 9,390 · peak 21,039Jan 2025 — avg 11,862 · peak 23,711Mar 2025 — avg 11,492 · peak 24,242May 2025 — avg 14,612 · peak 30,178Jul 2025 — avg 13,006 · peak 23,773Sep 2025 — avg 10,137 · peak 24,955Nov 2025 — avg 12,026 · peak 34,269Jan 2026 — avg 14,523 · peak 29,703Mar 2026 — avg 11,551 · peak 25,900May 2026 — avg 10,220 · peak 20,343Jul 2026 — avg 6,458 · peak 14,056Aug 2026 — avg 5,723 · peak 17,734
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Chart history

#81#812026-09-152026-09-172026-09-15 — #812026-09-16 — #812026-09-17 — #81
Best Steam most-played rank per day (census top-100 snapshots).
PositiveNegative
2162162026-09-152026-10-142026-09-15: 32 new positive2026-09-15: 4 new negative2026-09-16: 29 new positive2026-09-16: 4 new negative2026-09-17: 47 new positive2026-09-17: 3 new negative2026-09-18: 30 new positive2026-09-18: 7 new negative2026-09-19: 54 new positive2026-09-19: 7 new negative2026-09-20: 51 new positive2026-09-20: 4 new negative2026-09-21: 30 new positive2026-09-21: 1 new negative2026-09-22: 39 new positive2026-09-22: 10 new negative2026-09-23: 23 new positive2026-09-23: 2 new negative2026-09-24: 29 new positive2026-09-26: 45 new positive2026-09-26: 8 new negative2026-09-27: 43 new positive2026-09-27: 6 new negative2026-09-28: 28 new positive2026-09-28: 3 new negative2026-09-29: 21 new positive2026-09-29: 4 new negative2026-09-30: 19 new positive2026-09-30: 7 new negative2026-10-01: 30 new positive2026-10-01: 5 new negative2026-10-02: 35 new positive2026-10-02: 1 new negative2026-10-03: 62 new positive2026-10-03: 6 new negative2026-10-04: 98 new positive2026-10-04: 8 new negative2026-10-05: 105 new positive2026-10-05: 12 new negative2026-10-06: 216 new positive2026-10-06: 23 new negative2026-10-07: 94 new positive2026-10-07: 9 new negative2026-10-08: 78 new positive2026-10-08: 5 new negative2026-10-09: 79 new positive2026-10-10: 79 new positive2026-10-10: 8 new negative2026-10-11: 67 new positive2026-10-11: 7 new negative2026-10-13: 47 new positive2026-10-13: 7 new negative2026-10-14: 34 new positive2026-10-14: 3 new negative
New Steam reviews per day (census review snapshots). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$59.99$0.002021-06-162026-10-142021-06-16 — best price $59.992022-01-27 — best price $53.992022-04-07 — best price $50.992022-06-10 — best price $47.992022-08-01 — best price $59.992022-09-27 — best price $59.992022-10-26 — best price $59.992022-12-05 — best price $38.992023-01-03 — best price $59.992023-01-28 — best price $59.992023-04-06 — best price $59.992023-05-15 — best price $59.992023-06-20 — best price $59.992023-08-31 — best price $59.992023-12-01 — best price $59.992024-01-04 — best price $59.992024-02-13 — best price $59.992024-04-18 — best price $29.992024-05-07 — best price $29.992024-06-18 — best price $59.992024-07-17 — best price $29.992024-09-19 — best price $59.992024-12-04 — best price $59.992025-01-20 — best price $29.992025-03-04 — best price $29.992025-04-24 — best price $29.992025-06-16 — best price $59.992025-07-16 — best price $29.992025-09-23 — best price $29.992025-11-19 — best price $29.992025-12-11 — best price $29.992026-01-21 — best price $29.992026-04-01 — best price $29.992026-05-28 — best price $29.992026-06-25 — best price $29.992026-07-30 — best price $59.992026-09-16 — best price $0.002026-10-14 — best price $0.00
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1.7k3632026-05-28 — 1,703 pageviews2026-06-01 — 1,301 pageviews2026-06-05 — 1,255 pageviews2026-06-09 — 1,074 pageviews2026-06-13 — 910 pageviews2026-06-17 — 696 pageviews2026-06-21 — 890 pageviews2026-06-25 — 650 pageviews2026-06-29 — 685 pageviews2026-07-03 — 556 pageviews2026-07-07 — 553 pageviews2026-07-11 — 493 pageviews2026-07-15 — 522 pageviews2026-07-19 — 543 pageviews2026-07-23 — 436 pageviews2026-07-27 — 510 pageviews2026-07-31 — 449 pageviews2026-08-04 — 403 pageviews2026-08-08 — 459 pageviews2026-08-12 — 463 pageviews2026-08-16 — 472 pageviews2026-08-20 — 374 pageviews2026-08-24 — 377 pageviews2026-08-28 — 521 pageviews2026-09-01 — 420 pageviews2026-09-05 — 482 pageviews2026-09-09 — 427 pageviews2026-09-13 — 547 pageviews2026-09-17 — 492 pageviews2026-09-21 — 471 pageviews2026-09-25 — 454 pageviews2026-09-29 — 363 pageviews2026-10-03 — 485 pageviews2026-10-07 — 389 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Twitch viewers

12302026-09-30 21:34 — 37 viewers2026-10-01 06:34 — 24 viewers2026-10-01 15:34 — 19 viewers2026-10-02 00:34 — 11 viewers2026-10-02 09:34 — 28 viewers2026-10-02 18:34 — 97 viewers2026-10-03 03:34 — 38 viewers2026-10-03 12:34 — 58 viewers2026-10-03 21:34 — 58 viewers2026-10-04 06:34 — 11 viewers2026-10-04 15:34 — 43 viewers2026-10-05 00:34 — 59 viewers2026-10-05 09:34 — 17 viewers2026-10-05 18:34 — 58 viewers2026-10-06 03:34 — 6 viewers2026-10-06 12:34 — 11 viewers2026-10-06 21:34 — 46 viewers2026-10-07 06:34 — 24 viewers2026-10-07 15:34 — 54 viewers2026-10-08 00:34 — 14 viewers2026-10-08 09:34 — 18 viewers2026-10-08 18:34 — 64 viewers2026-10-09 03:34 — 53 viewers2026-10-09 12:34 — 23 viewers2026-10-09 21:34 — 33 viewers2026-10-10 06:34 — 10 viewers2026-10-10 15:34 — 63 viewers2026-10-11 00:34 — 64 viewers2026-10-11 09:34 — 57 viewers2026-10-11 18:34 — 68 viewers2026-10-12 03:34 — 21 viewers2026-10-12 12:34 — 33 viewers2026-10-12 21:34 — 111 viewers2026-10-13 06:34 — 25 viewers2026-10-13 15:34 — 20 viewers2026-10-14 00:34 — 43 viewers2026-10-14 09:34 — 14 viewers2026-10-14 18:34 — 91 viewers2026-10-14 20:34 — 108 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
93.7%
earned "Welcome to México"
19.9%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPCo-opOnline Co-opCross-Platform MultiplayerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading Cards52 DLC

15 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Czech, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian…

Post-launch support: 52 DLC released, first 2021-11-05, latest 2025-04-24 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Xbox Series, Xbox One, Windows (Xbox)207,2121%164
Steam (Steam)47,3512%164
PS5 (PlayStation)40,8212%165

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

Co-opArcadeRacingSportsDrivingAdventureRealisticOpen WorldSimulationAtmospheric

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Recent updates

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