5 reasons to play Forza Horizon 5 in 2024

When discussing the top racing games of our time, Forza Horizon 5 always has a high place on the list. Its average player count has had many moments of ebb and flow. The complaints of repetitive endgame content have seen gamers leave, but consistent weekly updates of seasonal challenges ensured they returned.

Since its release on November 5, 2021, FH5 has been the talk of the town and has always had something to offer gamers. Be it a player getting into racing games for the first time or simulation racing game enthusiasts, Forza Horizon 5 has plenty of reasons to be played in 2024, and here are five of the biggest ones.

Note: This article is subjective and reflects the author's opinions.

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5 reasons to revisit Forza Horizon 5 in 2024

1) Realistic Graphics

A Porsche doing a spin in front of the festival crowd (Image via Playground Games)

The Forza Horizon franchise has always been pulling gamers into its fandom with its graphics, and FH5 is no exception. Following the footsteps of its predecessor, Forza Horizon 5 set a standard for what racing games could look like when it was released in 2021. Set on the proprietory ForzaTech engine, the stunning visuals of this game are sure to leave gamers in awe.

With updates in 2024, Forza Horizon 5 has improved its performance thanks to FSR2.2, DLSS, and Intel XeSS. These supersampling options benefit players by making Forza Horizon 5 playable on a beginner-friendly PC.

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2) In-depth car tuning

The tuning options that are available for cars in FH5 (Image via Playground Games)

The racing game genre has always had two major categories of fans: arcade-style racing and simulation racing. Forza Horizon 5 comes under the latter. As such, the car controls a player is given are quite extensive in range and accurate in depiction.

The settings range from tire pressure, spring stiffness, and wheel alignment to aerodynamics, brake calibration, and differentials. The units for all the tunings options have metric and imperial options catering to the entire community.

Furthermore, gamers can either tune a car completely on their own or download existing tunings created and uploaded by the community in Forza Horizon 5.

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3) Community-made Eventlab

The Eventlab and its community made content available for gamers (Image via Playground Games)

Forza Horizon 5 can be defined as a game made for the people by the people due to the community's involvement. Besides the tuning options, the FH5 community gets heavily involved in creating custom events in a dedicated game section called Eventlabs.

Here, players can customize maps, tracks, weather conditions, reward options, and many more, resulting in an outpour of various events to participate in and have fun. Gamers can create and participate in a wide variety of contests that give hours of content even after a player runs out of maps to cover.

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4) Seasonal events

Seasonal events feature various racing and exploration events (Image via Playground Games)

Forza Horizon 5 houses a vivid seasonal library that features lots of racing, exploration, and stunt events. Aptly titled Forzathon, the seasonal events feature daily and weekly challenges that reward Forzathon points, which can be used to redeem cars, horns for vehicles, emotes, and wheelspins.

Through further progression in the seasonal events, players can earn cars as a reward upon reaching the threshold for 20 and 40 seasonal points each season, respectively. A season lasts a week, and a series of 4 seasons lasts a month. Upon accumulating 80 and 160 points, players will be rewarded two more reward cars from the community choice that are the highlight vehicles of the series.

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5) New car drops

Huracan STO was newly added as a Series 20 reward (Image via Playground Games)

Forza Horizon 5 has always proudly showcased its wide library of cars available to drive in the game. Along with the simulation racing playstyle and eye-candy graphics, FH5 is known to impress players with its car roster. As such, it continues to deliver new cars and announce newer ones with continuous releases.

Playground Games has been updating Forza Horizon 5 with newer cars as well as new body kits and wheels. This keeps the community's foot on the pedal as players keep pushing themselves in the series and challenges to land themselves the shiny new car Forza has to offer.