Forza Horizon 6 has attracted over 6 million players since its global launch on May 19, 2026. The game had previously surpassed 1 million players during Early Access. The game has continued to set records across all platforms.
On Thursday, May 21, 2026, the team behind the game’s development revealed through a post on social media that the game had attracted over 6 million players.
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“Forza Horizon 6? More like Forza Horizon 6-Million!” the team wrote on X. “Thank you all for joining us at Horizon Japan”.
In the last 24 hours, the game welcomed 284,139 concurrent players, beating the milestone set the previous twenty-four hours, according to SteamDB. The game has continued to attract massive accolades. On Metacritic, it received an average Metascore of 91 on Xbox Series X and 89 on PC.
Playground Games studio head’s message on Forza Horizon 6
Trevor Williams, the studio head at Playground Games, posted on the game’s Early Access launch date, thanking his team and their partners for bringing the Horizon Festival to Japan.
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“The team at Playground has worked hard to craft the right balance of fun and authenticity. Japan was such an amazing place to set our latest game – so many iconic roads, such rich car culture … and it truly is a beautiful country. I hope our players enjoy exploring, racing or just hanging out there.
A big thank you to all of our friends across XGS and our many partner studios. Creating and shipping Forza Horizon games needs support from a huge group of people. Thank you to you all … we couldn’t do this without you. And to the team at Playground … congratulations. I’m incredibly proud to represent our studio and of the game we built. You crushed it … again.”
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