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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

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.

28,375
playing now
83%
positive of 96k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
1,451
twitch viewers (latest)
90/100
critic score (5 outlets, IGDB)
83/100
IGDB user rating (95 ratings)
19h
to beat · rushed 12h · completionist 60h
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$69.99
steam price (US)

28,375 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 15:00 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
  • · 28,375 players in-game right now — a Steam top-100 title.
  • · 15,780 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1,973/week).
  • · Review velocity down 76% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 2% of 833 Racing games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.9M–4.3M copies

Review-multiple estimate from 95,592 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $60.49 at PlayerLand (2026-06-11)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $69.99 · on sale 1 of 3 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: 605 positiveWeek of 2026-08-07: 256 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

35k10.0k2026-08-12 02:00 — 15,433 players2026-08-12 14:00 — 26,024 players2026-08-13 02:00 — 15,589 players2026-08-13 14:00 — 27,494 players2026-08-14 02:00 — 18,886 players2026-08-14 14:00 — 30,164 players2026-08-15 02:00 — 18,129 players2026-08-15 14:00 — 29,145 players2026-08-16 02:00 — 17,079 players2026-08-16 14:00 — 28,774 players2026-08-17 02:00 — 14,169 players2026-08-17 14:00 — 23,887 players2026-08-18 02:00 — 13,066 players2026-08-18 14:00 — 22,792 players2026-08-19 02:00 — 12,574 players2026-08-19 14:00 — 22,949 players2026-08-20 02:00 — 13,394 players2026-08-20 14:00 — 25,096 players2026-08-21 02:00 — 16,172 players2026-08-21 14:00 — 28,772 players2026-08-22 02:00 — 16,271 players2026-08-22 14:00 — 27,275 players2026-08-23 02:00 — 15,474 players2026-08-23 14:00 — 25,270 players2026-08-24 02:00 — 12,773 players2026-08-24 14:00 — 21,666 players2026-08-25 02:00 — 12,209 players2026-08-25 14:00 — 21,347 players2026-08-26 02:00 — 12,101 players2026-08-26 14:00 — 23,370 players2026-08-27 03:00 — 13,329 players2026-08-27 15:00 — 34,589 players2026-08-28 03:00 — 15,805 players2026-08-28 15:00 — 27,992 players2026-08-29 03:00 — 17,224 players2026-08-29 15:00 — 28,482 players2026-08-30 03:00 — 17,119 players2026-08-30 15:00 — 28,375 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Chart history

#38#502026-08-122026-08-302026-08-12 — #442026-08-13 — #412026-08-14 — #382026-08-15 — #382026-08-16 — #402026-08-17 — #422026-08-18 — #442026-08-19 — #462026-08-20 — #442026-08-21 — #422026-08-22 — #422026-08-23 — #432026-08-24 — #452026-08-25 — #492026-08-26 — #502026-08-27 — #442026-08-28 — #422026-08-29 — #422026-08-30 — #46
Best Steam most-played rank per day (census top-100 snapshots).
PositiveNegative
1241242026-08-132026-08-292026-08-13: 95 new positive2026-08-13: 52 new negative2026-08-14: 121 new positive2026-08-14: 66 new negative2026-08-15: 85 new positive2026-08-15: 44 new negative2026-08-16: 95 new positive2026-08-16: 71 new negative2026-08-17: 106 new positive2026-08-17: 53 new negative2026-08-18: 102 new positive2026-08-18: 44 new negative2026-08-19: 92 new positive2026-08-19: 55 new negative2026-08-20: 83 new positive2026-08-20: 46 new negative2026-08-21: 81 new positive2026-08-21: 59 new negative2026-08-22: 83 new positive2026-08-22: 48 new negative2026-08-23: 88 new positive2026-08-23: 44 new negative2026-08-24: 72 new positive2026-08-24: 46 new negative2026-08-25: 113 new positive2026-08-25: 52 new negative2026-08-26: 81 new positive2026-08-26: 49 new negative2026-08-27: 107 new positive2026-08-27: 74 new negative2026-08-28: 107 new positive2026-08-28: 57 new negative2026-08-29: 124 new positive2026-08-29: 39 new negative
New Steam reviews per day (census review snapshots). Positive above the line, negative below.

Attention

5.9k8142026-05-29 — 5,884 pageviews2026-06-01 — 4,765 pageviews2026-06-04 — 3,599 pageviews2026-06-07 — 3,983 pageviews2026-06-10 — 2,814 pageviews2026-06-13 — 2,529 pageviews2026-06-16 — 2,039 pageviews2026-06-19 — 1,896 pageviews2026-06-22 — 1,829 pageviews2026-06-25 — 1,754 pageviews2026-06-28 — 1,743 pageviews2026-07-01 — 1,412 pageviews2026-07-04 — 1,321 pageviews2026-07-07 — 1,210 pageviews2026-07-10 — 1,129 pageviews2026-07-13 — 1,165 pageviews2026-07-16 — 1,041 pageviews2026-07-19 — 1,049 pageviews2026-07-22 — 1,023 pageviews2026-07-25 — 1,026 pageviews2026-07-28 — 1,043 pageviews2026-07-31 — 911 pageviews2026-08-03 — 978 pageviews2026-08-06 — 864 pageviews2026-08-09 — 956 pageviews2026-08-12 — 906 pageviews2026-08-15 — 854 pageviews2026-08-18 — 815 pageviews2026-08-21 — 855 pageviews2026-08-24 — 816 pageviews2026-08-26 — 1,164 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Twitch viewers

1.6k2382026-08-26 19:15 — 1,213 viewers2026-08-26 21:34 — 601 viewers2026-08-27 01:34 — 656 viewers2026-08-27 04:34 — 537 viewers2026-08-27 07:33 — 381 viewers2026-08-27 10:34 — 547 viewers2026-08-27 13:34 — 598 viewers2026-08-27 16:34 — 1,340 viewers2026-08-27 19:34 — 877 viewers2026-08-27 23:34 — 653 viewers2026-08-28 02:34 — 767 viewers2026-08-28 05:34 — 428 viewers2026-08-28 08:34 — 559 viewers2026-08-28 11:34 — 406 viewers2026-08-28 14:34 — 594 viewers2026-08-28 17:34 — 611 viewers2026-08-28 20:34 — 747 viewers2026-08-28 23:34 — 618 viewers2026-08-29 02:34 — 620 viewers2026-08-29 05:34 — 539 viewers2026-08-29 08:34 — 310 viewers2026-08-29 11:34 — 546 viewers2026-08-29 14:34 — 770 viewers2026-08-29 17:34 — 721 viewers2026-08-29 20:34 — 842 viewers2026-08-29 23:34 — 859 viewers2026-08-30 02:34 — 445 viewers2026-08-30 05:34 — 297 viewers2026-08-30 08:34 — 294 viewers2026-08-30 12:34 — 447 viewers2026-08-30 15:34 — 1,451 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-speech22 DLC

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

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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