Our Forza Horizon 6 guide will hopefully help you with whatever you need in Xbox Game Studios' latest game in the open-world racing series. This time, we're off to Japan to explore the biggest urban area in a Forza Horizon game, Tokyo City, and far beyond up snaking mountain roads and more. So, whether you need racing tips and pointers on the best cars for a specific activity or want to know where the Barn Finds and Treasure Cars are, we've got you covered in Forza Horizon 6.
Forza Horizon 6 platforms
The Forza Horizon 6 release date of May 19, 2026, has arrived, meaning you can play the racing adventure on Xbox Series X and PC via Steam and the Microsoft Store. You can also play Forza Horizon 6 on Game Pass if you pay for the right subscription tiers.
A release on PS5 is set to follow later this year, but we don't yet know when specifically. You can keep up with any developments with our Forza Horizon 6 PS5 release date guide.
Forza Horizon 6 review
You can read our Forza Horizon 6 review here, where we said it's "the best Forza Horizon game yet, delivering an astonishingly vast and detailed open world, filled with incredible features".
Forza Horizon 6 basics
Novice drivers and inexperience Horizon Festival attendees, start here! As soon as you get to the game's start menu, it's a good idea to your Forza Horizon 6 assists and settings sorted to the best options, which will make driving feel smooth and responsive. As part of these settings, you may even want to turn off car damage in Forza Horizon 6 to keep your cars from suffering realistic damage that affects performance or just keep them looking nice and unblemished.
Next, check out our Forza Horizon 6 tips for some general help with racing, exploring, and getting through everything the Horizon Festival has to offer. Money is obviously quite important for buying cars that will help you in festival events, but the game is pretty generous with Credits anyway. Regardless, it won't hurt to know how to farm money in Forza Horizon 6. And as you start exploring the map, you can make use of Forza Horizon 6 fast travel to get around much faster than you can drive. Speaking of driving, you'll need some cars for that…
Forza Horizon 6 cars
Forza Horizon 6, like all the previous games, features a lot of cars – well over 500 at launch and that will only continue to grow. You can check out the full Forza Horizon 6 car list here, but if you're not interested in the entire roster and just want to know which cars are worth using in races, here's out list of the best cars in Forza Horizon 6.
Obviously, for some activities in Forza Horizon 6, you'll need highly specialized cars to either win or earn stars, depending on if it's a race or a PR Stunt. Those wanting to zoom off ahead of the rest on drag strips should take a look at the best drag racing cars in Forza Horizon 6, while those looking to channel a certain driving and drifting anime should check out the best drift cars in Forza Horizon 6. And if you want to participate in races using the highest performance cars, particularly the fastest cars in Forza Horizon 6, our guide will help you there.
Collectible cars return in Forza Horizon 6 but they come in two distinct flavors this time. There's the usual Forza Horizon 6 Barn Finds, classic cars forgotten and left to rust in barns hidden throughout the Japan map, and these work almost exactly the same as in previous games.
There are also Forza Horizon 6 Treasure Cars in this entry, a new type of collectible that you'll unlock just by driving around the map. You'll be given photo clues of specific locations across the map, and it's your job to find the real locations so that you can collect the pictured car for free. Be sure to check the linked guide if you want to get these cars nice and easily.
Forza Horizon 6 Festival Playlist guides
The Festival Playlist is where Forza Horizon 6 gets a bit live service-y, introducing weekly seasons that make up a four-week-long series. Each season and series introduce new challenges with the promise of exclusive cars, Credits, and other rewards. They're generally quite easy and self-explanatory, but here are all the ones that can prove to be minor sticking points:
- Forza Horizon 6 Treasure Hunts: Hidden chests that contain 100,000 Credits. Like the Treasure Cars, you have to find the chest based on a single photo and the region it's in.
- Forza Horizon 6 Photo Challenges: Head to the specified location and snap a picture for some rewards and Festival Playlist reward progress.
- Forza Horizon 6 Speed Skills: Drive fast to earn this type of skill.
- Forza Horizon 6 Hakone Nanamagari: Here's where you'll find the winding Touge Race and Drift Zone made famous by Initial D.
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