{"id":78235,"date":"2026-05-15T15:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T19:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=78235"},"modified":"2026-05-15T16:36:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T20:36:35","slug":"forza-horizon-6-crushes-franchise-record-on-steam-despite-the-need-to-pay-extra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=78235","title":{"rendered":"Forza Horizon 6 Crushes Franchise Record On Steam Despite The Need To Pay Extra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/reviews\/forza-horizon-6-review-dopamine-highway\/1900-6418489\/\">Forza Horizon 6<\/a> has crushed the franchise record on Steam for peak concurrent users, and that&#8217;s especially noteworthy since the game is only available for a select group of people currently.<\/p>\n<p>Forza Horizon 5 set the franchise record for highest peak concurrent-player count on Steam with <a href=\"https:\/\/steamdb.info\/app\/1551360\/charts\/\">81,096 back on November 13, 2021<\/a>, which was the first Saturday after the game launched on November 9. Forza Horizon 6, meanwhile, hit a high watermark of <a href=\"https:\/\/steamdb.info\/app\/2483190\/charts\/\">172,093 players<\/a> today, May 15, meaning Forza Horizon 6 doubled up the franchise high (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesradar.com\/games\/racing\/forza-horizon-6-immediately-beats-its-predecessors-all-time-steam-record-with-130-000-concurrent-players-and-thats-only-counting-people-willing-to-pay-usd120-for-early-access\/\">via GamesRadar<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Forza Horizon 4 came to Steam in March 2021, representing the franchise&#8217;s debut on Steam, and it <a href=\"https:\/\/steamdb.info\/app\/1293830\/charts\/\">peaked at 75,689 concurrent players<\/a>. The game came to Valve&#8217;s digital storefront years after its original release in 2018; players reported many issues at launch and it was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/forza-horizon-4-delists-in-december-dlc-delists-today\/1100-6524496\/\">delisted from Steam in 2024<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The only way to play Forza Horizon 6 right now is to buy the game&#8217;s $120 premium edition or pay an extra $60 for an upgrade. The game&#8217;s $70 standard version arrives May 19, and that&#8217;s also when Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass members can start playing. Alternatively, people subscribed to those tiers of Game Pass can buy the $60 premium edition<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forza Horizon 6 has crushed the franchise record on Steam for peak concurrent users, and that&#8217;s especially noteworthy since the game is only available for a select group of people currently. Forza Horizon 5 set the franchise record for highest peak concurrent-player count on Steam with 81,096 back on November 13, 2021, which was the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":78237,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external","brand-gamespot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78235"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78235"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78238,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78235\/revisions\/78238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/78237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}