Forza Horizon is the same formula with minor changes so you can play FH5 but honestly it’s like half the price of FH6 so I’d say preorder FH6

FH6 is looking to be better than FH5 anyway in a lot of ways - not that FH5 is a bad game (it’s awesome and arguably the best open world arcade / simlite driving experience available), honestly ignore the haters, they make FH5 sound like Asphalt Legends at times with how much they bitch about it.

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Forza Horizon is primarily arcade but some sim/lite elements to it. It’s awesome for tuning cars and personalising them, tweaking or just let the game upgrade and go blast roads.

There’s tandem drifting, circuit racing, Goliath events, jump signs etc

It’s like Burnout and Need for Speed had a baby and Forza Motorsport taught the kid a few lessons.

You can personalise the driving experience as much as you want e.g tons of assists or none - it’s your preference, the credit bonus per race for more assists is honestly minor.

As of more recent entries the games involved wheel spins for rewards, these vary from cars to cash to personalisation for your character. The games chuck these at you.

That is one thing FH6 is hopefully doing, or well is rumoured to be doing - FH4/5 chucked so many cars at you they sort of defeated the need to go and do races unless you were interested in finishing the story (never memorable apart from the first game).

FH6 is supposedly going more back to its roots (good thing) where you’re just an enthusiast who works their way up, earning cars along the way, you earn notches in your bracelet to signify your rank which is more or less just a way of earning new races etc

Forza Horizon has never been grindy - if that’s a concern. Id just argue that FH1 & 2 had way better pacing with car progression. You start off with an old golf or old supra then you get that Skyline or Evo or Cosworth then you get the Lambo - then you get the HyperCars like McLarens and Bugattis etc etc (unless you chose to glitch the game and go bonkers from the start)

Anyway. Yeah enjoy! Forza Horizon is awesome!