Forza Horizon 5

Like many, I wish there was a "mixed" option. On one hand this game bangs. It's one of the best feeling and most fun racing games in recent years. It has a great flow, A good map (Although I still love FH3's map more), a bunch of content to keep you busy, and a pretty good weekly challenge system that gives you some cool cars. On the other it's completely idiotic that you pay 100 Euros/USD and you don't get all the content as you will be missing out on 12 Car packs. That's about 52 vehicles, and will cost you another 50 Euros/USD extra. I paid for the premium edition so I could get everything, but instead they retroactively release a bunch of car packs that I have to pay even more for. It actively killed all the excitement and love I had for this game before that point. Do better, Playground games. Ultimately, That's why I'm giving it a negative review as I stopped playing for over a year due to this BS, and the only thing that got me back into it was one of my friends reinstalling it. TL;DR: It's good but, They added a bunch of DLC that isn't included in the premium edition 2 years after the game came out.

The game is good but it absolutely does not need the boring ass characters with their dead soulless conversations that drags on way too long, I'm here to drive cars

Honestly just really fun, a blast with friends or without friends. Only played for a few hours and already had plenty of nights where me and a friend chill in call and forget how late it is.

Forza Horizon 5 is a great racing game +Graphics(The graphics look so good that sometimes you don't know if it's a game or real.) +Gameplay(The gameplay mechanics are the same as the rest of the series with some improvements.) +Open World(The map is very large and there are many activities to do and races plus exploration.) +Good Music and Sound Forza Horizon 5 is a good racing game from all points and is as good as Forza Horizon 4 and everything looks very good especially the cars are very well detailed and let's not forget the map is also very detailed 10/10 Must Play! I recommend buying it at a discount.

I've not played any of the Forza collection since this game and 2025, but I've wanted to for a long time. I've heard so many good things about the franchise but being a Playstation owner I was never able to play the "XBOX Exclusive" title until now that they've started releasing them on PC. I didn't want to drop a buttload of money on a game that I knew nothing about other than hearing word-of-mouth reviews. I snagged this on the Steam Summer sale and wow! I've been missing out! With the excitement and feel of games like Burnout Paradise, The Crew, and the open world of games such as Just Cause 3 and GTA V...this game is a best of all of those worlds. The car collection is EPIC. There are tons of cars, I already own so many that I've only driven a handful and each time I play they give me 4-5 more! The customization and tuning of the vehicles, while it's a bit daunting, it is worth it. I've been able to turn my older, sluggish cars into tuned monsters. Often times I've found myself just driving for no reason at all, no direction, and finding something to do. Sometimes I start with a goal in mind or a race right at the beginning. Other times it's just about building up skill points and unlocking more goodies. One of the most unexpected things is the rivals within the races. It keeps your friends' track times and car choices and you end up racing against them in races. My older brother passed away Jan 2024 but he was an avid gamer. He owned this game and even though he's gone, I was able to race head-to-head with him drifting around corners and gunning it on the straightaways. The ability to see his gamertag floating above the car next to me was surreal. Looking for a fun arcadey style racer with tons of cars, tons of upgrade options, and a giant open world? You got it right here.

Crash Crash Crash. After having this issue for over a year regardless of doing everything I could find online.

Shit game wont even let me play it, every time i try to sign in it wont let me. All microsoft sign ins are dogshit. I paid 60$ for a game i cant even play.

forza horizon 5 still looks like the ultimate open-world playground for car lovers. The Mexico map is stunning. I have played this game 40hrs and trust me you will fall in love with cars and wide variety of map it provides. I will definitely recommend this game to everyone, and with the recent update , the game is still unbeatable.

It’s super fun and hard to stop playing once you start!

Great game its feels so slow though your going 150mph and it feels like 60mph

even with recommended specs game stutters pretty consistantly and input is lagging behind by about half a second

I don't get it. I play more simmy games, like acc, lmu and WRC, but enjoy arcade game like the NFS series. This game feels like the worst of both worlds, U can do giant jumps and go off-road at 300k in a lambo, but then some little pebble bucks you and you have no control, everything like braking accelerating cornering feels inconsistent and left to the discretion of some random ai. Other than this the story and videos are really dull and overplayed. I appreciate the work that went into it, but the game just feels dead and emotionless.

It's good, it's fun, but still can't beat Forza Horizon 4 for me. Story is not that good, just feel flat and sometimes you'll got cringy dialogue with ugly character. Starting as superstar from UK (becasue i play FH4?), this plot make me got no motivation for me to keep following the story. The only motivation that make me keep playing this game is colleting cars and racing. Mastering all road and rally tracks. Forza Horizon 4 do a lot better than this game, come with beautiful world of UK, a lot of banger song on radio and don't forget with that beautiful cinematic shot. With my experience with FH4 and FH5, i think this game slowly moving to Live Service Game that more-and-more relying on online server. That was bad. I Xbox not do this, because there a lof of example about this decision. Like The Crew series, TDU, Forza Motorsport and so on. I hope Microsoft and Xbox keep supporting Turn 10 and Playground Games to develop more and better Forza Horizon in the near future. And please consider to keep developing Forza Motorsport, your game is super friendly to Controller Player like me. Men who love playing motorsport racing game with controller. Consider to add Offline Mode with good Career Mode. Thank you!

Bought the game at launch, found it to feel pretty empty compared to other games in the series, tried to reinstall it to see how its come over the years, and the game just keeps having login issues, really disappointing to see how bad this series has gotten, H3 was one of my favorite games, and its been a heavy fall off since then, probably recommend giving a different game a try before this one.

I bought the Premium Edition thinking it was the same as Forza Horizon 4 Ultimate Edition where you got all DLCs including those released later. This is not the case with Forza Horizon 5. When it comes to the game itself it is a decent game. The map looks good, but feels empty and bland. The graphics are decent and there are many cars, but a lot of the cooler cars are locked behind DLCs you have to buy. Most of these are not included with Premium Edition. The physics are very arcadey. It has force feedback, but that is almost as far as the realism goes. All in all it is a decent game, but it has lost the spark Forza Horizon 4 has. The way they changed how the highest tier version does not have all DLCs feels like the publisher has become greedy and care more about money than making a good game people can enjoy. If you have Forza Horizon 4 this will not feel like an upgrade. Sure, the graphics look a little better and there are some new mechanics like folding the roof on convertibles, but that is about it. As Forza Horizon 4 is now delisted I would recommend looking for other racing games like BeamNG or Assetto Corsa.

At this moment I can no long recommend this game but I will be honest! This game was 1 of my favorite games but I cannot justify giving this game a good review as it is unplayable for me at the moment. 1 gpu driver update and it could be a crash simulator

How about actually getting this convoluted mess of fifteen linked accounts and services to work for once? So sick of having to remove credentials, log in, log off, reinstall, reboot, just to be able to LOG IN. I paid for the game, let me play it, ffs!

constant crashes. i have 3k gaming PC, all drivers up to date! still randomly crashing!! shame!!

super fun game, I get lost in the auction and bidding on cars and in the mods menu, almost as much as I race lol whole place is a riot, the speed records are mine boii

this game is absolute garbage, game physics make no sense and when ever you try to race the cpu it just rams you of the road every single time. ive been trying to complete a single race for over an hour and havent been able to get past the first few corners without being hit off, im way faster than the cpu on unbeatable but the only reason i keep losing is cause it keeps ramming me off in every corner, its like im a ghost to it

wont save my account i have to login every time i open the game and its glitched and i have to click the type bar then imediatly press 1 key then do it again till the whole thing is typed and the servers keep saying there down

great game i highly recommmend to other players who are looking for open road racing car collecting games

Is the game fun? Yes. Is it rewarding? Well... Forza Horizon 5 is fun at first glance the driving feels good, the car list is massive, and visually it's stunning. But it quickly becomes clear that the game lacks any meaningful progression. Within the first hour, you're given dozens of cars, including supercars, with no reason to even use most of them. The constant flow of free vehicles kills any sense of reward or accomplishment. The "festival" theme feels hollow. There's no sense of rising through ranks, no rivals, no endgame – you arrive as the best and stay there. Maybe I’m biased because I just replayed Need for Speed: ProStreet, which I consider to have one of the best progression systems and festival atmospheres ever made. In comparison, the "festival" in Horizon 5 feels pointless. Now let’s talk about the map. What is this? Horizon 3 (Australia) and Horizon 4 (UK) had fantastic, memorable worlds. I loved how seasons in FH4 changed the vibe and even your driving strategy. Here, you're just driving across a giant flat plate. Nothing feels iconic or immersive. The city is painfully bland. After playing FH3 and FH4, I actually wanted to visit Australia and Scotland. After FH5? Mexico feels like a post-apocalyptic wasteland from Fallout. And while we’re at it, why is the festival in Mexico? The game tries way too hard to inject Mexican culture with awkward Spanglish dialogue and forced enthusiasm. I thought the cutscenes in NFS Unbound were cringe, turns out, FH5 takes that crown with ease. And honestly, Mexico doesn’t even have a well-known car culture. Can we please go back to America, Europe, or Japan? As a sandbox? It’s decent. As a racing game? It fails to deliver any real structure, challenge, or progression. It’s all sugar, no substance.

yes but no, if you want too grind for cars its really not the game for you... I got gifted 10 million credits worth of cars for free about 7 hours into the game. only crashed once so far (if you have an Nvidia gpu you'll know what i mean eventually).

Very fun game with a variety of racing styles from rally, to street, to circuit and everything in between.

smooth fast and beautiful just driving around feels good racing or not it is always a chill time. i keep circling around the map for hours in my ferrrrrrari. lol

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Never was dying to play this. Was waiting for this to be on sale, good thing I did. Cons: - Saints Row(2023)/Concord level of voiceovers and character types, insufferable, unskippable slop cutscenes with forced spanish so you don't forget they know 2 languages. - Trash Radio, every song is either censored or an unbearable corporate cringe garbage. -Immediate 0 volume on both is a MUST. - Goofy, children-like exploration objectives, being reminded that you are such a good boy and you are doing so well for literally just driving through a aztec ruin ,or something random. - Cars missing details from their irl counterparts, like sidemarkets, some details are slightly out of position etc. - LONG launch process, takes 5 min just to get into the game ,when accounting for all loading times, 15 min if game decides to Optimize your PC. - Forced DLC advertisments/ 3 out of 4 options when choosing race locked behind dlc. Pros: - Decent number of cars to choose - Graphics are pretty good for racing - Good amount content (I just started) without having to buy dlc - Ability to chose manual - Some semblance of basic tuning adjustment (but the game is Arcade not Sim ,so take with grain of salt) - Cars sound good even though not accurate for many models (problem since Forza 1, never fixed) This isn’t “open world Asseto Corsa” or Gran Tourismo thats 100% clear after 15 min of playing. I recomment buying ONLY on heavy sale, and prepare to MUTE everything and anything that isnt a car to have MUCH better experience.

the games hella chill but once u finish the races it can kinda get boring. The cars r rlly expensive and its pretty hard to get the fast cars like the pro stock

This game is very adventurous and fun with free ride and missions

I spent my time loading into the game, optimising shaders more than playing the game. RTX 4060 Ti 8GB Intel i5 12400F 16GB RAM

This game seems cool as heck, but the moment I get through the tutorial, I'm bombarded with an unskippable ad. This happens every time I start the game. I select my car, a lil cutscene of it leaving the garage plays, then an ad takes over my screen. This makes me micro soft, so into the refund bin it goes.

love it love the cars love the graphics its a 10/10 but the space it takes up is alot and i could only have 2 games when i had this so if you like any car games its for you i had a little bit of hard times trying to log in but the first mission is good you have choices for the first mission unlike other games where it just throws you into a mission and you dont have choice good game.

A cringefest of a game with blatantly cheating AI and players. Driving cars is enjoyable—sure—but that’s basically it. The setting is so cringe I had to disable voices completely. I just pretend none of the NPCs exist and it’s all some fever dream I’m having while staring at a loading screen. There are countless posts about the cheating AI, and don’t get me wrong—you can beat it pretty easily. But it’s not fun… or racing, for that matter. It feels like I’m fighting a script that has zero regard for the actual game rules. Yeah, it’s easily abusable once you figure it out, but that just makes it feel even less like racing and more like glitch exploitation. Rivals and online racing are the only modes that are genuinely enjoyable to some degree. But even there… it’s infested with cheaters too. Ridiculous world records set by obvious hackers are still up years later, and the devs clearly don’t give a single flying duck about fixing it.

The most beautiful racing game on Steam. The details of the cars are amazing, and there are hundreds of car options to choose. The story itself is dull, but the open world has tons of racing to do. The level progressing is simple too easy. I personally prefer off road racing, and the game has a lot of it. Overall I recommend this game if you want to have fun racing on beautiful enviroments and nice cars

is the best game i've ever played the way the car handle is so life like and the cars are awesome as

Forza Horizon 5 doesn’t just build on the success of its predecessor—it roars past it. Set in a vibrant, hyper-detailed version of Mexico, this is the most visually stunning, content-packed, and downright fun open-world racer yet. Playground Games has taken everything that made Horizon 4 a classic and turned the volume all the way up. If you’ve played Forza Horizon before, you’ll feel right at home—but better. The core arcade-sim hybrid handling is still here and still top-notch. Cars feel weighty, responsive, and grounded, whether you’re tearing across sand dunes in a trophy truck or hugging corners in a McLaren. Racing in Horizon 5 is endlessly satisfying. Whether it’s a street race at sunset, a cross-country rally through the jungle, or an impromptu drag race on a deserted airstrip, every drive feels exhilarating. The map is huge and diverse, and there's always something to do just around the next corner. Let’s not beat around the cactus—Horizon 5’s version of Mexico is breathtaking. The map is Playground Games’ biggest and most varied yet. Lush rainforests, sprawling cities, ancient ruins, dry deserts, active volcanoes, and tropical beaches all blend into a seamless playground of speed. Dynamic weather (including sandstorms and tropical storms), time of day, and lighting make every area feel alive. Simply driving around feels rewarding. With over 500 cars at launch, from exotics and muscle cars to off-road monsters and classic tuners, the car list is stacked. Each vehicle is faithfully modeled, and the tuning and upgrade system gives gearheads plenty to obsess over. Paint jobs, widebody kits, engine swaps, and even horns and sound systems can be customized. Want to turn a Beetle into a dragster? Go for it. The campaign is much more player-directed this time. You build your Horizon Festival by unlocking new outposts across Mexico, and each expansion adds different types of races and events (street, dirt, cross-country, etc.). It gives the game a sense of purpose without being restrictive. Expeditions are a standout—story-driven adventures that mix exploration with racing and give the world context. EventLab allows players to create their own races, mini-games, and even stunt challenges. Some user creations are wild, like Hot Wheels-style tracks or demolition derbies. Multiplayer is packed with content: Horizon Open, Eliminator (a battle royale with cars), co-op races, and community events. Online integration is smooth. You’ll see real players seamlessly driving around your world. Quick matchmaking and tons of seasonal content keep things fresh. Weekly playlists and challenges encourage you to come back regularly for rewards—but thankfully, they feel optional rather than obligatory. However, there’s some bloat and UI clutter when it comes to menus and notifications. The game can be overwhelming at first with how much it throws at you. Forza Horizon 5 isn’t just a racing game—it’s a celebration of cars, culture, and creativity. From its stunning Mexican backdrop to its overflowing content, it’s hard to find a game more joyful and well-crafted. While it builds heavily on the foundation of Horizon 4, it does so with enough new ideas, polish, and sheer scale that it firmly earns its place at the front of the pack. If you love cars or just love having fun behind a digital wheel, Forza Horizon 5 is the best it’s ever been. Rating: 8/10

the game is worth the price as it has many things to do like racing,open world and etc. and it has a large amount of cars and i liked it too much(it is one of my favourite game)

Great game. If you're using one of the newer NVIDIA graphics cards, be sure to cap your frame rate, somewhere below 165 to prevent game from crashing!

Good racing/car collection game. The only two bad things I can think of listed below. -Absolute dog doo doo dialogue that seems like it was written by a 13 year old kid during unskippable cutscenes. The cutscenes are quite long and also numerous. Absolute cringefest. -Radio Stations/music selection are also dog doo doo.

This is a great game for every type of player weather you are trying to get the most out of your pc's graphics card or dont have the greatest computer. This games very customize able graphics settings means anybody can play.

What a garbage game client. Why cant i play a game without signing into xbox and microsoft accounts? why? my kids will never get to play half these really dumb games that all require logins before playing and cant seem to figure out how to keep you logged in.....how is this secure? constantly having to get out my secure microsoft password to anyone in my home trying to play a video game? will we ever have an all in one game client?

Great game if you love open world racing. Very graphically intensive though.

It's been my top played game ever since I bought it. I think it is very noob friendly because you get gifted a ton of good cars as soon as you join. Also, the physics aren't too realistic which makes it easier for new players to get into and have a ton of fun racing. The campaign also progresses to give you enough time to settle in and its a really nice campaign. However, if you don't care about racing and just want a strictly car game I wouldn't recommend it get BeamNG drive instead. But it is good for racing!

Great game even if there's a lot of haters coming from GT and TC community saying sh*t about the game. Car songs could be better. Less goodest Forza Horizon of all but really big carlist, performance customization are the best of all car games, but for visual customization TCM is way ahead. Really recommand if you want a freeroam car game that is really well optimized and have clearly the best physic.

I gave it a fair try, but Forza Horizon 5 feels like a full-priced ad for its own DLC. The game constantly throws Hot Wheels and Rally expansions in your face — on the map and even when you get there, ONLY to be disappointed. It looks like that content is available until you try it, then it just asks you to pay for the DLC. If you want a clean experience without nonstop upselling, this isn’t it. Forza 5 has potential, but the way it’s structured makes it feel more like a free-to-play mobile game than a premium racer. Wish I could refund it.

Issues with Microsoft login make the game unplayable

grate game cant lie just like brake checking my friends and doing mini car meet and then go up a mounting in a 15 million coin car and destorying it very fun game denfintly recommend

Very fun and intriguing. the physics and graphics are great. the car lists and the creative lab is a top notch