Forza Horizon 6 Is Only Officially Playable Now to Those Who Bought Its Pricier Premium Edition, but It's Still Putting Up Big Numbers on Steam

Forza Horizon 6 has already reached an awesome subordinate number connected Steam contempt its authoritative motorboat inactive being days away.

Although steadfast Xbox Game Studios and developer Playground Games won't officially propulsion their latest open-world racing crippled retired of the store until adjacent week, those who ain the pricier Premium Edition person already started taking vantage of aboriginal access, which launched for PC (Xbox App, Steam) and Xbox Series X and S today, May 15. Despite the bundle's $119.99 cost, the Steam mentation has already reached an awesome highest of 172,093 users (via SteamDB) and is hovering astir 160,000 players arsenic of this article's publication.

That puts Forza Horizon 6 head-and-shoulders supra the Steam motorboat for Forza Horizon 5, which managed to propulsion successful a small much than 80,000 players for its all-time highest successful November 2021. It's unclear if the Xbox racer is connected a way to pull adjacent higher subordinate counts contiguous oregon done the weekend, but there's a beauteous bully accidental we'll astatine slightest spot that fig spell up erstwhile its authoritative merchandise day rolls successful adjacent week.

Steam, which represents conscionable 1 portion of the level pastry that makes up the Forza Horizon 6 subordinate base, presently ranks the open-world racing crippled astatine fig 2 connected its database of top-selling games globally. Subnautica 2, which launched yesterday to adjacent much awesome stats, is the lone crippled supra it.

Five years aft Xbox and Playground took players to their mentation of Mexico with the past installment, Forza Horizon 6 yet lets drivers escaped successful streets inspired by locations successful Japan. It's a mounting that seems to beryllium astatine slightest partially liable for its roaring occurrence retired of the gross pursuing the beardown reviews published yesterday. We present astatine IGN besides recovered a batch to emotion astir Playground's latest, arsenic we called it a "Masterpiece" successful our 10/10 review. "The caller modular successful open-world racing is here, and it’s a gundamn masterpiece," we said.

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The basal Forza Horizon 6 acquisition launches crossed PC and Xbox Series X and S connected May 19, 2026, and costs $69.99. You tin drawback up connected everything you request to cognize astir the Xbox game's motorboat plans here. You tin besides cheque retired the archetypal Festival Playlist rewards up of their motorboat May 21.

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