The next grand open-world setting for the next Forza Horizon game will be Japan, Microsoft has accidentally announced, and it will be released in 2026.
The announcement came via an Instagram post on the official Forza Horizon account. This let slip, ahead of a Tokyo Game Show 2025 Xbox briefing today, that “The Horizon Festival is heading to Japan. Coming 2026.” The post has since been removed. Whoops!
The full announcement is expected to occur in the Xbox briefing that’s only moments away – due to begin at 11am UK time. How much of the game we’ll see, we don’t yet know, nor how much of Japan it will allow us to explore.
Forza Horizon 5 was released four years ago now, in 2021, and this year debuted on PlayStation 5, in the spring. Tom thinks it’s one of the greatest racing games of all time. Given that, the question of whether this new instalment could launch on PlayStation 5 is probably more “when?” rather than “if?”. Or, “How long will Microsoft keep it exclusive to Xbox for?”
