Forza Horizon 6 Global Release Times, Early Access, and Preload Details Confirmed

Forza Horizon 6 developer Playground has confirmed the planetary merchandise times for the hotly anticipated racing game, some for its aboriginal entree merchandise and the afloat launch.

Confirmation comes aft Forza Horizon 6 suffered a important leak connected PC that led to the crippled being made disposable to pirates good earlier launch. Playground and genitor institution Microsoft person been moving to plug the leak, and adjacent issued pirates with beingness hardware ID bans. Some had wondered if the leak would change Forza Horizon 6’s merchandise plans, possibly with it being brought forward, but that is not the case.

As confirmed successful a station connected societal media, Forza Horizon 6’s aboriginal entree motorboat goes up arsenic planned connected May 15, though connected Xbox it’s playable connected the evening of May 14 connected the westbound seashore successful bid to align with the eastbound timezone.

Steam entree for everyone begins astatine 12:01 americium with the U.S. Eastern clip zone. This is simply a planetary merchandise pattern, Playground said, truthful the Steam motorboat volition beryllium aligned to Eastern time. Full timezone details are below.

Early entree is disposable lone to those who bargain the Premium edition. As a first-party Microsoft game, Forza Horizon 6 launches time 1 connected Game Pass (PC and Ultimate) connected May 19. Preload went unrecorded connected May 12 crossed each platforms (Steam, Xbox Series X and S, and the Xbox app for PC - a PS5 mentation is connected the way, though it's owed retired aboriginal this year). Meanwhile, Forza Horizon 6 is 'Verified' connected Steam Deck and different devices, including the Xbox ROG Ally and Ally X.

Forza Horizon 6 planetary merchandise times. Image credit: Microsoft.

Forza Horizon 6 Xbox aboriginal entree planetary merchandise times:

Thursday, May 14, 2026:

PT (Seattle):

• 09:01 pm

CST (Mexico City):

• 11:01 pm

Friday, May 15, 2026:

ET (New York):

• 00:01 am

BST (London):

• 00:01 am

CEST (Paris):

• 00:01 am

JST (Tokyo):

• 00:01 am

KST (Seoul):

• 00:01 americium

AEST (Sydney):

• 00:01 am

NZST (Auckland):

• 00:01 am

Forza Horizon 6 Xbox planetary merchandise times:

Monday, May 18, 2026:

PT (Seattle):

• 09:01 pm

CST (Mexico City):

• 11:01 pm

Tuesday, May 19, 2026:

ET (New York):

• 00:01 am

BST (London):

• 00:01 am

CEST (Paris):

• 00:01 am

JST (Tokyo):

• 00:01 am

KST (Seoul):

• 00:01 americium

AEST (Sydney):

• 00:01 am

NZST (Auckland):

• 00:01 am

Forza Horizon 6 PC via Steam aboriginal entree planetary merchandise times:

Thursday, May 14, 2026:

PT (Seattle):

• 09:01 pm

CST (Mexico City):

• 11:01 pm

Friday, May 15, 2026:

ET (New York):

• 00:01 am

BST (London):

• 05:01 am

CEST (Paris):

• 06:01 am

JST (Tokyo):

• 01:01 pm

KST (Seoul):

• 01:01 p.m.

AEST (Sydney):

• 02:01 pm

NZST (Auckland):

• 04:01 pm

Forza Horizon 6 PC via Steam planetary merchandise times:

Monday, May 18, 2026:

PT (Seattle):

• 09:01 pm

CST (Mexico City):

• 11:01 pm

Tuesday, May 19, 2026:

ET (New York):

• 00:01 am

BST (London):

• 05:01 am

CEST (Paris):

• 06:01 am

JST (Tokyo):

• 01:01 pm

KST (Seoul):

• 01:01 p.m.

AEST (Sydney):

• 02:01 pm

NZST (Auckland):

• 04:01 pm

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