Forza Horizon 5
Worth it · Action · 2021
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 50% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$59.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$29.9950% offWorth it
- Cost per hour▼
- $2.82/hr
- ReviewsA
- 89% of 284,037
- Genre rank
- Top 1% Action
Holding it back: DRM, Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $29.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 21.3h
- To 100%
- 143.6h 6.7x the story
- Finish
- 49% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 164
Price and sales
- Sales
- 41 on record
- Typical cut
- 50% off
- Steam low
- $23.99 August 2026
- Sale every
- 44d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 6,161 now
- Recent reviews
- 90% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 1% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 95% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
94% start to 49% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
41 discounts in the 5 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 1 percent. 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 39) and Dakar 18 ($29.99, scores 23).
More about Forza Horizon 5
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 18. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 19 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written August 2026 to October 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,368 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 656 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 51 percent of the 7,884 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, 144 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 6.7 times the campaign.
284,037 reviews stand behind that percentage.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 28 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Was Forza Horizon 5 able to repeat the success of the previous part in the series? Absolutely YES, but only one small nuance. what do we have now, as support for fh5 is coming to an end? Comprehensive, large and perhaps the best open-world racing arcade game of our time. what was changed compared to the fourth part? almost everything. to put it rudely, one might say its just a larger version of fh4, but that wouldnt...
2 more reviews
Forza Horizon 5 is a fantastic game, and I genuinely loved playing it. Based on my PC specs, I was getting around 30+ FPS in the open world on 1080p High graphics settings. However, only during races, the FPS sometimes dropped to around 20. Despite the frame drops, the game was still playable for me, and I had a great time exploring the world and racing. The graphics, open-world experience, and overall gameplay make...
Amazing visuals! Very relaxing and a beautifully built world Definitely a must have if you like racing games. You won't regret buying it.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Explore the vibrant open world landscapes of Mexico with limitless, fun driving action in the world’s greatest cars.
Minimum specs
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.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Forza Horizon 5 scores 82/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1551360/forza-horizon-5Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 4, price as of Nov 8. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.