{"id":53257,"date":"2026-05-18T07:24:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T23:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=53257"},"modified":"2026-05-18T07:24:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T23:24:43","slug":"forza-horizon-6-crushes-franchise-record-on-steam-despite-the-need-to-pay-extra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=53257","title":{"rendered":"Forza Horizon 6 Crushes Franchise Record On Steam Despite The Need To Pay Extra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/a\/uploads\/screen_medium\/1179\/11799911\/4696736-fhorizon6.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<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.<\/p>\n<p>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 first Saturday after the game launched on November 9. Forza Horizon 6, meanwhile, hit a high watermark of 172,093 players today, May 15, meaning Forza Horizon 6 doubled up the franchise high (via GamesRadar).<\/p>\n<p>Forza Horizon 4 came to Steam in March 2021, representing the franchise&#8217;s debut on Steam, and it peaked at 75,689 concurrent players. 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 delisted from Steam in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Continue Reading at GameSpot<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/forza-horizon-6-crushes-franchise-record-on-steam-despite-the-need-to-pay-extra\/1100-6539998\/?ftag=CAD-01-10abi2f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source<\/a><\/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&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53258,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[22922,5402,17322,2800,9128,640,1952,3418],"class_list":["post-53257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-gadgets-reviews","tag-crushes","tag-extra","tag-forza","tag-franchise","tag-horizon","tag-pay","tag-record","tag-steam","wpcat-32-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/53258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}