Discover the breathtaking landscapes of Japan in over 550 real-world cars and become a racing Legend at the Horizon Festival. Start your journey as a tourist and explore a world full of hit music and Japanese culture. Build a Valley Estate, acquire awe-inspiring homes, and display your prized car collection in fully Customizable Garages. Cruise the roads with your friends and join Car Meets around Japan, unleash your imagination with EventLab and build together in Horizon CoLab.
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Discover the breathtaking landscapes of Japan in over 550 real-world cars and become a racing Legend at the Horizon Festival. Start your journey as a tourist and explore a world full of hit music and Japanese culture. Build a Valley Estate, acquire awe-inspiring homes, and display your prized car collection in fully Customizable Garages. Cruise the roads with your friends and join Car Meets around Japan, unleash your imagination with EventLab and build together in Horizon CoLab.
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Discover the breathtaking landscapes of Japan in over 550 real-world cars and become a racing Legend at the Horizon Festival. Start your journey as a tourist and explore a world full of hit music and Japanese culture. Build a Valley Estate, acquire awe-inspiring homes, and display your prized car collection in fully Customizable Garages. Cruise the roads with your friends and join Car Meets around Japan, unleash your imagination with EventLab and build together in Horizon CoLab.
Your journey to a Horizon Legend starts now – Japan Awaits!
EXPERIENCE TOKYO, HORIZON’S LARGEST EVER CITY
Welcome to Japan, a place where the stunning contrasts of rural and urban come together as you uncover the secrets hidden within Horizon's most dense map yet, full of verticality, diverse biomes and spectacular driving experiences. Cruise the suburbs and iconic downtown streets or challenge yourself in the docks and industrial districts of Tokyo City, the largest ever urban area in a Forza Horizon game, and the home for car enthusiasts.
FEEL IMMERSED IN JAPANESE CAR CULTURE
Drive over 550 real-world cars, including some much loved and fan favorite JDM classics, featuring cutting-edge engine audio and updated steering animations with up to 540 degrees of wheel rotation. As you explore Japan, collect special Forza Edition cars fitted with extreme modifications and find rare Aftermarket Cars to test drive and buy. Your path to making a name for yourself will see you meet the Legends of the Horizon Festival, participate in Touge Battles, and experience authentic stories rooted in Japan’s legendary car culture.
RACE AND DISCOVER IN JAPAN
In Forza Horizon 6, you will explore a vast campaign of discovery and Festival racing, playable solo and in co-op with your friends. You’ll start as a tourist and must prove you’ve got what it takes to join the Horizon Festival as a rookie driver, all while you Discover Japan and complete your Collection Journal. Qualify for the Festival in the Horizon Invitational, then rise through the ranks in progressively faster cars and earn new Wristbands to become a Horizon Legend. Your newfound status will grant you access to Legend Island, an exclusive space reserved for the greatest drivers.
MAKE THE WHOLE WORLD YOURS
Your journey will see you purchase gorgeous homes in Japan, each with customizable garages – allowing you to create the ideal spaces to showcase your car collection, or you can download layouts shared online by the community. Unlock the Estate, a mountain valley where you can build freely in the open world, creating nearly anything you can imagine. And for your favorite cars, those can be upgraded with body kits and new Forza Aero options, as well as the ability to paint custom liveries on windows.
JOIN THE COMMUNITY IN MULTIPLAYER
This Festival is always better with your friends. Seamlessly participate in Time Attack Circuits and Drag Meets or show off your customized cars at Car Meets. Earn new co-op LINK skills with other players, compete in Spec Racing Championships, or jump into the Horizon Multiplayer modes you know and love including The Eliminator and nailbiting Hide & Seek.
BUILD TOGETHER, ANYWHERE IN JAPAN
Create with unprecedented freedom anywhere in Japan as you build custom events with your friends in CoLab, the upgraded EventLab toolset – now featuring multiplayer support and the ability to build literally anywhere in the world. Share your masterpieces for everyone to play and discover an always evolving catalog of exciting new content created by the community.
THE FESTIVAL FOR EVERY DRIVER
Hit the open road in our most approachable Horizon game yet. Our customization options include Granular High Contrast Mode, Car Proximity Radar, American and British Sign Language (coming in a post-launch update), and AutoDrive, allowing players to experience the beautiful cars, hit music and spectacular locations of the Horizon Festival.
Discover your Legend, and Explore the Contrasts and Culture of Japan.
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Ackros7/10Firstly I did receive this from Xbox Games Studio via Keymailer.co Steam Version - Premium Edition Current prices 60eur for standard base game, free on PC Game PASS. Deluxe 99 euro, and premium 120 eur. Yep crazy prices but if you love the genre and series and want all the car packs etc then is makes sense, and that bank app feature to split pay over 3 months is a winning solution. #giftedbyXbox #keymailer FIRST IMPRESSIONS VIDEO
Token10/10tl;dr - Playground Games has gone and done it. Japan, in all its neon-soaked, mountain-carved, cherry-blossom-strewn glory, is the open-world racing setting we've all been dreaming about for the best part of a decade. And bloody hell, does it deliver. "Captures the essence of the place in a smoother, condensed reality." Torben Ellert, Design Director, Playground Games. Let me open with a confession. I've been waiting for a Forza Horizon set in Japan since roughly the moment I finished Forza Horizon 3. Every time a new entry was announced, I'd hold my breath, scan the reveal trailer for a hint of Mt Fuji or a neon-lit Shibuya crossing, and every time I'd be left disappointed. Australia, Britain, Mexico, all stunning in their own right, but never quite that. So when Playground Games finally pulled the trigger and confirmed Japan as the destination for Forza Horizon 6, I'd already mentally pencilled the 10/10 onto the scoreboard before I'd even pressed start. I mean I pretty much did the same for Assassin's Creed: Shadows. A Setting That Slaps You In The Face With Beauty Within about thirty seconds of starting the game, you're sent careening through the Japanese Alps in a 2025 GR GT Prototype, racing alongside a Shinkansen bullet train, before plunging headfirst into the Horizon Festival proper. It's pure Playground showboating, and I loved every single second of it. But the real magic kicks in once you stop chasing objectives and just cruise. Tokyo at night, with rain-slicked streets reflecting every neon kanji and convenience store sign, is some of the prettiest driving I've ever experienced in a video game. The ray-tracing reflections off your bonnet in the city are genuinely show-stopping. Then you climb out of the city, find yourself winding up a Touge mountain pass with cherry blossom petals scattering across your windscreen, and you realise Playground hasn't just built a map. They've built a love letter. Five times the size of Guanajuato. Five times. And it never once feels empty. Tokyo alone, according to the studio, is roughly five times larger than the biggest built-up area in Forza Horizon 5. And they've actually filled it. Layered highways, tunnels, industrial districts, tight urban corners. You can spend hours just exploring one district before remembering there are six more regions waiting for you. The world is dense without ever feeling cluttered, varied without ever feeling like a theme park. Touge, Time Attack, and Living Out Your Initial D Fantasy Now, let's talk about what's actually new, because this isn't just Forza Horizon 5 with a Japanese coat of paint slapped on top. Touge Battles are 1v1 races on famous Japanese mountain roads, including Hakone, Mount Haruna, Bandai Azuma, the Norikura Skyline, and Arahiyama Takao Parkway. If you grew up watching Initial D and wishing you could pelt down a mountain pass at silly speeds with a rival glued to your bumper, congratulations, your dreams have arrived. These battles are tense, technical, and properly thrilling. I've been having recurring dreams about the Akina downhill, send help. Time Attack events are scattered seamlessly across the map. Just hit a dedicated stretch of road and you're suddenly setting times against your friends, with leaderboards plastered across in-game billboards as you drive. It's a genius little touch that turns the entire open world into a competitive playground without ever shoving you into a menu. Horizon Rush events are like Showcases but unscripted. You get behind the wheel of a preselected car and have to earn three stars on your own merits. Less Hollywood, more proper driving. Drag Meets now feature actual launch control management. The game no longer holds you on the line automatically. You pick your grid slot, watch a realistic countdown, and manage your own launch. Touch the throttle a millisecond early and you jump-start. No more cheesing it. You bring your purpose-built monster, you sit on the grid, you sweat. It's wonderful. ANNA, The Auto-Driving Co-Pilot I Didn't Know I Needed I'll admit, I rolled my eyes when I first heard about Auto Drive. Why would I let the game drive itself? Then I tried cinematic mode, where the entire UI vanishes and you get a film-style view of your car cruising through the Japanese countryside at sunset. It's strangely meditative. I've spent more time than I'd care to admit just sat watching my Land Cruiser wind through a forest road at golden hour while I sip a brew. Don't judge me. The Cars. Oh, The Cars. Over 550 vehicles at launch, with a heavy and very welcome emphasis on JDM heroes. Nissan Silvias, Toyota Celicas, Mazda RX-7s, GR Yarises, kei vans (yes, properly slow, properly hilarious kei vans), the lot. The cover stars, the 2025 GR GT Prototype and the 2025 Toyota Land Cruiser, tell you everything you need to know about Playground's mission statement. This is a celebration of Japanese car culture, and it shows in every menu, every engine note, every paint option. Engine audio has had a serious overhaul, and the new 540-degree steering animations make every car feel that much more tactile. If you've got a wheel like a Logitech G29 collecting dust in a cupboard, this is the game to drag it back out for. Niggles? A Couple, If I'm Being Properly Honest I'd be lying if I said it was flawless. The AI does that classic Forza Horizon rubberbanding thing, especially on the trickier Touge runs. One minute you're miles ahead, the next there's a Honda Civic on your boot like it teleported in from the Upside Down. The cutscene dialogue is still as bland as a motorway service station sandwich, a complaint that's followed the series since Australia and apparently isn't going anywhere. And Mt Fuji, the most iconic mountain in all of Japan, is essentially a background prop. You can stare at it, you can photograph it, but you cannot drive it. Heartbreaking. But honestly? These are minor scratches on an otherwise gleaming bonnet. They're not enough to knock a single point off any of the scores above. Verdict Forza Horizon 6 is the best Forza Horizon ever made. The Japan setting was always going to be the headline, and Playground hasn't squandered it. They've doubled down, building the most ambitious, most varied, most beautiful open world the series has ever seen. Every drive feels like an event. Every screenshot looks like a desktop wallpaper waiting to happen. I'm thirty-odd hours in, my screenshot folder is on its knees begging for mercy, and I've got absolutely no intention of stopping anytime soon. If you've got Game Pass, you've got no excuse. If you don't, this is the game that justifies buying it. The wait was worth it. Konnichiwa, perfection.
Bombjack10/10FH4 was great, FH5 was greater, from what I have played so far, FH6 is the greatest. Everything is just dialled in. It looks great, cherry blossom everywhere. It sounds great because vroom vroom noises never get old. It plays so well. Really it was never in doubt, but good lord what a package. I am lucky enough to have the xbox ultimate pass, and a Series X and PC. Thanks to play anywhere via the xbox store, I bought the premium upgrade for the price of the base game (which is free on the pass). Sure £60 is a lot, but this game is a lot and is well worth it
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