Forza Horizon 5
Worth it · Action · 2021
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $59.99.
- Length
- 21.3h
- Value
- $2.82/hr
- Reviews
- 89% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVidia GTX 970, AMD RX 470, OR Intel Arc A380, 110 GB of storage. Windows only.
Explore the vibrant open world landscapes of Mexico with limitless, fun driving action in the world’s greatest cars.
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How to read this
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $23.99. That was August 2026. 40 discounts in the 5 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 4 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Drive Beyond Horizons ($24.99, scores 46) and Dakar 18 ($2.99, scores 22).
Steam's global achievement data puts 49 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 8. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 12 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written July 2026 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 51 percent of the 7,832 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it.
21.3 hours to finish it, 143 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 6.7 times the campaign.
Still 10.0K concurrent players, 5 years in.
The drop-off
94% start to 49% finishPeople genuinely stick with this one. Steam global achievements
Players
10.0K players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
We're being scammed by Microsoft.. I played Forza Horizon 3, 4, 5 & saw gameplay of 6 . I am unable to see much difference between FH3 & 6 in view of gameplay, world etc,., Yes, ofcourse better in 6 but not that much standard upgrade. I think there is 10 years diff b/w FH3 & 6. If we see prices, Microsoft literally touched sky for FH6 by placing Premium edition at 10K INR. The only thing i like FH is the...
Game is officially broken for me. Other have complained about Forza's menu bug which causes a controller to "fast scroll" in a way that Literally makes the game unplayable with just a controller. I have tried the fixes recommended online and even on posts involving this it has been said multiple times that none of these fixes are guaranteed, rather they very rarely work, and for me they didn't. The most annoying...
This is hands down the greatest racing game ever made. The graphics are pure masterpieces, the open-world map is beautiful, and the car sounds are incredibly realistic. 380+ hours well spent and I will keep playing forever. 10/10!
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Forza Horizon 5 scores 82/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1551360/forza-horizon-5The BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 11, price as of Sep 23.
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