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Forza Horizon 6 cover art

Forza Horizon 6

Playground Games · Xbox Game Studios · 2026-05-18

Steam

RacingSimulationSports

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

Releases: 2026 (PlayStation 5), May 19, 2026 (Xbox Series X|S), May 15, 2026 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Discover the breathtaking landscapes of Japan in over 550 real-world cars and become a racing Legend in Forza Horizon's biggest open world driving adventure yet.

Forza Horizon 6 is a Racing, Simulation, and Sports game released in 2026, priced at $69.99, with Very Positive (83% of 93,058 reviews) sentiment.

16,173
playing now
81%
positive of 102k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
384
twitch viewers (latest)
3.7
viewers/channel (concentration)
90/100
critic score (5 outlets, IGDB)
83/100
IGDB user rating (95 ratings)
1,033
Nexus mods (2.1M downloads)
91/100
opencritic · mighty · 99% recommend · from 166 critics
19h
to beat · rushed 12h · completionist 60h
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$69.99
steam price (US)

16,173 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 17:00 UTC (census sample)

Forza Horizon 6 is a 2026 racing game developed by Playground Games and published by Xbox Game Studios. It is the sixth Forza Horizon title, following Forza Horizon 5, and the fourteenth main instalment in the Forza franchise. Set in a fictionalised representation of Japan, it features a stylised version of Tokyo as the game world's main city. It was released for Windows and Xbox Series X/S on 19 May 2026, with a release for PlayStation 5 later in 2026.

Trailer

Forza Horizon 6 trailer thumbnail

Forza Horizon 6 – Official Launch Trailer

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

Health check

Thriving
  • · 16,173 players in-game right now — a Steam top-100 title.
  • · 7,422 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~928/week).
  • · Review velocity down 42% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (35,553 reviews).
  • · Top 1% of 2,360 Racing games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 2.0M–4.6M copies

Review-multiple estimate from 101,966 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $59.49 at Microsoft Store (2026-08-25)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $69.99 · on sale 1 of 4 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
29k29k20262026Week of 2026-05-15: 29,064 positiveWeek of 2026-05-15: 6,489 negativeWeek of 2026-05-22: 14,654 positiveWeek of 2026-05-22: 2,399 negativeWeek of 2026-05-29: 7,706 positiveWeek of 2026-05-29: 1,313 negativeWeek of 2026-06-05: 4,540 positiveWeek of 2026-06-05: 944 negativeWeek of 2026-06-12: 3,293 positiveWeek of 2026-06-12: 755 negativeWeek of 2026-06-19: 2,326 positiveWeek of 2026-06-19: 528 negativeWeek of 2026-06-26: 1,694 positiveWeek of 2026-06-26: 460 negativeWeek of 2026-07-03: 1,340 positiveWeek of 2026-07-03: 367 negativeWeek of 2026-07-10: 1,356 positiveWeek of 2026-07-10: 335 negativeWeek of 2026-07-17: 953 positiveWeek of 2026-07-17: 293 negativeWeek of 2026-07-24: 828 positiveWeek of 2026-07-24: 257 negativeWeek of 2026-07-31: 739 positiveWeek of 2026-07-31: 256 negativeWeek of 2026-08-07: 814 positiveWeek of 2026-08-07: 339 negativeWeek of 2026-08-14: 648 positiveWeek of 2026-08-14: 287 negativeWeek of 2026-08-21: 647 positiveWeek of 2026-08-21: 287 negativeWeek of 2026-08-28: 780 positiveWeek of 2026-08-28: 306 negativeWeek of 2026-09-04: 682 positiveWeek of 2026-09-04: 242 negativeWeek of 2026-09-11: 483 positiveWeek of 2026-09-11: 185 negativeWeek of 2026-09-18: 390 positiveWeek of 2026-09-18: 642 negativeWeek of 2026-09-25: 383 positiveWeek of 2026-09-25: 433 negativeWeek of 2026-10-02: 659 positiveWeek of 2026-10-02: 368 negativeWeek of 2026-10-09: 309 positiveWeek of 2026-10-09: 175 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

25k6.6k2026-09-14 18:00 — 16,077 players2026-09-15 18:00 — 15,681 players2026-09-16 18:00 — 16,228 players2026-09-17 18:00 — 21,977 players2026-09-18 18:00 — 18,539 players2026-09-19 18:00 — 18,669 players2026-09-20 18:00 — 18,163 players2026-09-21 18:00 — 14,695 players2026-09-22 18:00 — 14,512 players2026-09-23 18:00 — 14,562 players2026-09-24 18:00 — 20,689 players2026-09-25 18:00 — 16,749 players2026-09-26 18:00 — 16,749 players2026-09-27 18:00 — 16,275 players2026-09-28 18:00 — 13,181 players2026-09-29 18:00 — 12,378 players2026-09-30 18:00 — 13,242 players2026-10-01 18:00 — 9,914 players2026-10-02 18:00 — 16,780 players2026-10-03 18:00 — 17,672 players2026-10-04 18:00 — 17,785 players2026-10-05 18:00 — 15,047 players2026-10-06 18:00 — 15,992 players2026-10-07 18:00 — 16,133 players2026-10-08 18:00 — 24,647 players2026-10-09 18:00 — 19,624 players2026-10-10 18:00 — 20,618 players2026-10-11 18:00 — 19,313 players2026-10-12 18:00 — 16,717 players2026-10-13 18:00 — 15,035 players2026-10-14 17:00 — 16,173 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Chart history

#4#662026-09-142026-10-142026-09-14 — #512026-09-15 — #42026-09-16 — #42026-09-17 — #42026-09-18 — #512026-09-19 — #492026-09-20 — #492026-09-21 — #512026-09-22 — #542026-09-23 — #582026-09-24 — #562026-09-25 — #502026-09-26 — #502026-09-27 — #542026-09-28 — #552026-09-29 — #572026-09-30 — #662026-10-01 — #622026-10-02 — #552026-10-03 — #552026-10-04 — #622026-10-05 — #642026-10-06 — #652026-10-07 — #622026-10-08 — #552026-10-09 — #542026-10-10 — #542026-10-11 — #562026-10-12 — #572026-10-13 — #572026-10-14 — #64
Best Steam most-played rank per day (census top-100 snapshots).
PositiveNegative
3873872026-09-152026-10-142026-09-15: 44 new positive2026-09-15: 27 new negative2026-09-16: 51 new positive2026-09-16: 21 new negative2026-09-17: 45 new positive2026-09-17: 16 new negative2026-09-18: 54 new positive2026-09-18: 23 new negative2026-09-19: 68 new positive2026-09-19: 36 new negative2026-09-20: 54 new positive2026-09-20: 78 new negative2026-09-21: 45 new positive2026-09-21: 89 new negative2026-09-22: 43 new positive2026-09-22: 79 new negative2026-09-23: 5 new positive2026-09-23: 387 new negative2026-09-24: 16 new positive2026-09-24: 139 new negative2026-09-25: 22 new positive2026-09-25: 139 new negative2026-09-26: 41 new positive2026-09-26: 97 new negative2026-09-27: 42 new positive2026-09-27: 85 new negative2026-09-28: 39 new positive2026-09-28: 56 new negative2026-09-29: 36 new positive2026-09-29: 40 new negative2026-09-30: 22 new positive2026-09-30: 107 new negative2026-10-01: 19 new positive2026-10-01: 70 new negative2026-10-02: 37 new positive2026-10-02: 67 new negative2026-10-03: 63 new positive2026-10-03: 61 new negative2026-10-04: 81 new positive2026-10-04: 87 new negative2026-10-05: 82 new positive2026-10-05: 61 new negative2026-10-06: 166 new positive2026-10-06: 124 new negative2026-10-07: 81 new positive2026-10-07: 57 new negative2026-10-08: 81 new positive2026-10-08: 62 new negative2026-10-09: 92 new positive2026-10-09: 55 new negative2026-10-10: 92 new positive2026-10-10: 61 new negative2026-10-11: 85 new positive2026-10-11: 82 new negative2026-10-12: 88 new positive2026-10-12: 75 new negative2026-10-13: 49 new positive2026-10-13: 65 new negative2026-10-14: 58 new positive2026-10-14: 43 new negative
New Steam reviews per day (census review snapshots). Positive above the line, negative below.

Attention

5.9k8152026-05-29 — 5,884 pageviews2026-06-02 — 4,413 pageviews2026-06-06 — 3,229 pageviews2026-06-10 — 2,814 pageviews2026-06-14 — 2,486 pageviews2026-06-18 — 1,849 pageviews2026-06-22 — 1,829 pageviews2026-06-26 — 1,656 pageviews2026-06-30 — 1,537 pageviews2026-07-04 — 1,321 pageviews2026-07-08 — 1,254 pageviews2026-07-12 — 1,154 pageviews2026-07-16 — 1,041 pageviews2026-07-20 — 1,096 pageviews2026-07-24 — 972 pageviews2026-07-28 — 1,043 pageviews2026-08-01 — 989 pageviews2026-08-05 — 889 pageviews2026-08-09 — 956 pageviews2026-08-13 — 815 pageviews2026-08-17 — 935 pageviews2026-08-21 — 855 pageviews2026-08-25 — 886 pageviews2026-08-29 — 1,118 pageviews2026-09-02 — 881 pageviews2026-09-06 — 948 pageviews2026-09-10 — 895 pageviews2026-09-14 — 907 pageviews2026-09-18 — 940 pageviews2026-09-22 — 1,162 pageviews2026-09-26 — 1,004 pageviews2026-09-30 — 838 pageviews2026-10-04 — 1,006 pageviews2026-10-07 — 1,245 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Twitch viewers

3.9k722026-09-30 18:34 — 638 viewers2026-10-01 03:34 — 512 viewers2026-10-01 12:34 — 254 viewers2026-10-01 22:34 — 459 viewers2026-10-02 07:34 — 260 viewers2026-10-02 16:34 — 467 viewers2026-10-03 01:34 — 441 viewers2026-10-03 10:34 — 268 viewers2026-10-03 19:34 — 1,011 viewers2026-10-04 04:34 — 467 viewers2026-10-04 13:34 — 1,648 viewers2026-10-04 22:34 — 511 viewers2026-10-05 07:34 — 251 viewers2026-10-05 16:34 — 413 viewers2026-10-06 01:35 — 1,691 viewers2026-10-06 10:34 — 259 viewers2026-10-06 18:34 — 700 viewers2026-10-07 03:34 — 265 viewers2026-10-07 12:34 — 276 viewers2026-10-07 21:34 — 1,066 viewers2026-10-08 06:34 — 201 viewers2026-10-08 15:34 — 1,416 viewers2026-10-09 00:34 — 530 viewers2026-10-09 09:34 — 232 viewers2026-10-09 18:34 — 620 viewers2026-10-10 03:34 — 428 viewers2026-10-10 12:34 — 543 viewers2026-10-10 21:34 — 731 viewers2026-10-11 06:34 — 353 viewers2026-10-11 15:34 — 447 viewers2026-10-12 00:34 — 399 viewers2026-10-12 09:34 — 193 viewers2026-10-12 18:34 — 1,073 viewers2026-10-13 03:34 — 365 viewers2026-10-13 12:34 — 162 viewers2026-10-13 21:34 — 454 viewers2026-10-14 06:34 — 221 viewers2026-10-14 15:34 — 439 viewers2026-10-14 17:34 — 384 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Completion

57
achievements tracked
95%
earned "Welcome to Japan"
47.9%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPCo-opOnline Co-opSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsChat Text-to-speech29 DLC

22 supported languages: English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian…

Post-launch support: 25 DLC released, first 2026-05-15, latest 2026-08-27 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Xbox Series, Windows (Xbox)53,2911%57
Steam (Steam)28,5043%57

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.

Census log

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

Recent updates

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