Japan. 550 cars. The biggest Horizon world ever. Forza Horizon 6 is the 2026 open-world racing game from Playground Games — the sixth entry in the franchise that invented the open-world racing genre — and it received universal acclaim on release with 100% of critics recommending it on OpenCritic. For UAE racing game fans, car enthusiasts, and Xbox Series X/S owners looking for the definitive 2026 Xbox exclusive, Forza Horizon 6 is the game of the year.
The setting is Japan — the most-requested Forza Horizon location since the franchise began, and the one Playground Games saved until they had the technical capability to represent it properly. The map is the largest in franchise history, with Tokyo City designed as the most complex and intricate drivable urban space ever built in a racing game — five times larger than any previous Horizon urban area, with skyscrapers, expressways, backstreets, industrial districts, and the dense layered geography of a real world megacity rendered as a drivable environment. Beyond Tokyo, the map extends to Mount Fuji's surrounding highlands, the snowy northern landscapes of Hokkaido, rural mountain passes, coastal roads, and open agricultural plains — a full cross-section of Japan's geographic contrasts within a single interconnected open world.
Over 550 real-world cars cover the full spectrum from JDM classics to modern hypercars. The cover car is the 2025 GR GT Prototype — Toyota Gazoo Racing's race-derived road car making its video game debut in Forza Horizon 6. The new R Class performance tier is designed specifically for track-focused hypercars and race-derived prototypes, including the Ferrari FXX-K Evo and the Aston Martin Valkyrie. Players who played previous Forza Horizon titles can claim their cars from earlier entries as rewards, and pre-order buyers received an exclusive pre-tuned Ferrari J50.
The dynamic weather system reflects Japan's four distinct seasons — cherry blossom spring rain, typhoon-season summer storms, autumn foliage conditions, and Hokkaido snow — each changing the driving surface conditions and visual character of the world. The acoustic modelling system is entirely new, with remastered engine audio and surface interaction sounds that simulate the soundscape of Japan's environments. The music library is the largest in any Horizon game, including Japanese artists commissioned for the Horizon Festival soundtrack.
The campaign follows a player character who begins as a tourist in Japan and works up through the Horizon Invitational to qualify for the Festival, earning Wristbands through progressively faster car classes to achieve Horizon Legend status. New features include The Estate — a massive mountain valley where players build and customise their own structures and tracks in the open world. Solo and co-op play throughout. Xbox Play Anywhere included — one disc or digital purchase gives access on Xbox Series X/S and Windows PC.
Xbox Series X/S only. Xbox One not supported for physical disc. Available on Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass from day one.
