Horizon Realms and Nissan Retro Rides Car Pack | April 2025

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Horizon Realms

This April, the Horizon Festival evolves with Horizon Realms.

This brand-new feature will let players dig into Forza Horizon 5’s history of Evolving World updates. Explore 12 fantastic Evolving World locations: 11 of the best previously limited-time locations and the premiering Stadium Track. Collect new Horizon Realms-exclusive accolades to unlock four new-to-Horizon reward cars. Revisit your favorite environments, or discover them for the first time, in Horizon Realms available for every platform on April 25!

A Selection of the Best Evolving Worlds

Horizon Realms gives players the chance to explore a hand-picked collection of some of the community’s favorite previously released Evolving World updates.

Get ready to (re-)discover and adventure though these beloved locations while behind the wheel of your favorite cars:

  • Stunt Park
  • Ice Rink
  • Oval Track
  • Summer Party
  • Neon Airstrip
  • Día de Muertos
  • Winter Wonderland
  • Lunar Drift Arena
  • Retrowave Highway
  • Cars and Coffee
  • Stadium Maze

You can also race around this Evolving World with the new permanent race route coming to the game, the Horizon Stadium Circuit. You can find details further into this post.

New Dedicated Accolade Tab

A new Accolade Tab exclusive to Horizon Realms will be added to the game featuring 60+ accolades. While most of them are new to this update, you will also be able to unlock previously released accolades tied to the returning Evolving Worlds that are now accessible with Horizon Realms.

Each of the Evolving World locations featured in Horizon Realms includes 5 new accolades to unlock! Find them under the Horizon Realms Accolades tab. You can also find an Accolade for the Horizon Stadium Circuit under the Road Racing tab.

Complete Horizon Realms Accolades to acquire 12 new badges coming to the game. Plus, for the first time ever, unlocking an accolade will reward the player with Forzathon Points! Go for a 100% in every Realm and unlock rewards with your newly acquired Points.

New Reward Cars

Earning accolades will also score new cars for your garage. Complete unique challenges featured on every Realm to unlock four new-to-Horizon reward cars:

  • 2024 Lamborghini Revuelto
  • 2023 Lamborghini Huracán Sterrato
  • 2018 Lotus Exige Cup 430
  • 2022 Hennessey Mammoth 6x6

Two Ways to Dive into Horizon Realms

There will be two different ways to experience Horizon Realms:

Skill Mode

Choose one of the Horizon Realms to enter and try to bank as much Skill Score as possible. Each Evolving World has its own separate Skill Score leaderboard, and there will also be a total Skill Score Leaderboard tallying up all points banked on each Realm – so try to take the top spot in all of them! Earning enough Skill Score will also unlock new player Badges unique to Horizon Realms!

Free Mode

This mode puts the leaderboards to the side and focuses on players having a good time in their favorite Realms. Enter on your own or with your friends in a Convoy to explore your favorite Realms, obtain Badges tied to previous content updates, unlock accolades to earn Forzathon Points, and more!

New Route: Stadium Track

Line up at the starting line of a brand-new race route: the Horizon Stadium Circuit! Featuring corners, bends, and racing decorations, this new track will become a permanent race route in the game – complete with its own event icon on the map and Rivals leaderboard! Score your best time on this new race route in Rivals and Horizon Open, and explore the Stadium Track Realm in Horizon Realms’ Free Mode and Skill Mode.

DLC: Explore Nissan’s Heritage with a New Car Pack

Four new cars from throughout Nissan’s automotive history will become available for purchase as Forza Horizon 5 releases for PlayStation 5 with the Nissan Retro Rides Car Pack. This new DLC pack includes the 1989 Nissan Pao, 1991 Nissan Figaro, 1989 Nissan S-Cargo, and the 1987 Nissan Be-1. Add these cars to your collection and customize them how you want!

The Nissan Retro Rides Car Pack will be available starting April 25 for $4.99/€4.99/£3.99. Players who bought the Ultimate Car Pack Collection will receive this Car Pack at no additional cost.

Pre-order Forza Horizon 5 on PlayStation 5 Today!

Forza Horizon 5 is now available for pre-order ahead of its PS5 release on April 29! Visit the PlayStation Store to pre-purchase one of Forza Horizon 5’s different editions.

  • Standard Edition comes with the complete base game and its free content and features like Horizon Realms. Standard

  • Deluxe Edition includes access to an extra 42 cars added with Car Pass Deluxe

  • Premium Edition comes with both Forza Horizon 5 expansions (Rally Adventure and Hot Wheels), 42 additional cars from Car Pass, VIP Membership, and extra perks that are included in the Welcome Pack. Pre-ordering Premium Edition also grants you Early Access to the game, starting April 25, 2025! Premium

No matter which version of the game you choose to pre-order, you will get a special bundle completely free of charge with your purchase including:

  • Forza Horizon 5’s cover car: the 2021 Mercedes-AMG Mercedes-AMG ONE
  • 5,000 Forzathon Points which can be used to buy cars and cosmetics
  • 5 Backstage Passes which can be used to unlock any hard-to-find car available in the Backstage Shop

If you’re already playing Forza Horizon 5, be sure to share the news with your PS5 friends and invite them to join us at the Horizon Festival as cross-play will be available between all platforms!

PlayStation 5 Graphics Modes

Forza Horizon 5 on PS5 features two rendering modes to choose from: Performance (60fps) and Quality (30fps).

On PS5 Pro, the Performance mode receives increased visual fidelity, while Quality mode adds ray traced car reflections to Races and Free Roam.

We hope you are looking forward to exploring Forza Horizon 5’s vast open world and features with Horizon Realms across all platforms the game is available on. Remember that you can pre-order any version of Forza Horizon 5 starting today on the PlayStation Store to receive a special bundle; pre-purchasing Premium Edition will grant you Early Access on April 25.

We’ll see you at the Horizon Festival soon!

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Announced in our January 30 blog:

In addition to bringing Forza Horizon 5 to PS5, we’re working on a special new free content update for all platforms, Horizon Realms. Realms will give players the chance to explore a curated collection of some of the community’s favorite previously released Evolving Worlds, alongside some other surprises. Stay tuned to our channels for more details soon.

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I hope forza devs give the value to Xbox users who bring u guys until here… we deserve the best on our platform as well. everyone is welcome… but never forget who have been support u since OG Xbox and Xbox 360 (fh1). i hope sony also bring us games to our favorite platform Xbox and PC (Xbox App)

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All good. :+1:

Hopefully a few new cars will be smuggled in? A player can hope.

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Heh, maybe newer players can finally get that New Year’s lanterns accolade.

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Would be nice to have the Drift Arina @ the Stadium, Cars&Coffee, Explor the Horizon, and the Horizon Race Of evolving world back.

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And the Parade Float Race :slight_smile:

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If the idea here is to make all of the Evolving World content permanently available (season permitting), then that sounds really great to me.

I also hope that when the game is finally discontinued, this large selection of Festival Playlists will continue on too, as opposed to FH4, where, sadly, it’s just the one on loop. Not only do I miss the Seasonal Champs, but it’s a shame to see all that work/content just discarded, never to be seen again…

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No idea, I just hope that it will be something along those lines.

In my view, a great way to have left FH4 would have been via the introduction of a rotating selection of ‘touched up’ Playlists that offered a load of Seasonal Champs and granted access to ALL of the extra content added in during the game’s lifetime (every Showcase Remix, every cosmetic item, etc).

I get the impression that there will be an element of choice with Realms, perhaps via voting (as with the Playlists), or maybe just selecting what you want to be active on a local/individual level; either way, I’m looking forward to finding out!

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When are we going to be able to sell directly to one another?

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Never, they have addressed that multiple times.

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What is a Horizon “Realm”? Or, for that matter, an “Evolving World”?

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I bet this will be something like instanced play, what they introduced in WoW with Wrath and the Death Knight Questing - where the world at large was displayed based on your level and character progression - you could be side by side in the same place with someone but not be able to see or interact with them till you have completed the same quest chains and open up the rest of the instance to the live server instance. Brilliant really… and a great way to innovate this game given the constant argument about locations, lack of a good story line, or “progression” style arguments being generally split between “I’m a nobody” and “I’m a superstar” story line plots.

Imagine: Instead of a single location that the game takes place in, the game takes place in numerous locations, maybe all the past locations, maybe you level up though them, and unlock the next…

Imagine the Initial stages of Horizons started people at a form of the first Horizon Game, and the game itself has you progressing through each iteration of the game to finally arrive at the Current Day Horizon festival. You’ll be surrounded by people at the same place as you and would progress together. Once you have opened all the instances it would at this point would be sort of like the expansion islands with a central hub, but any of them can be “your hub home” if you choose… so lets say you love FH3, that can be your home hub within Horizons if you like.

With instanced servers - they can do all manner of crazy stuff like this, and create a real quest based story line for the franchise - while holding true to the open world aspect as well.

…I think this little nugget here is a beta of sorts, just like when they dropped motorsport’s AI’s “active collision avoidance” here in Horizon to see how it would behave before they launched motorsport, And given some of the other low key requirements gathering they’ve been doing around here. :robot:

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Why is this post suddenly pinned?

Are we going to see this update after Series 44?

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They’d be true Chads if they dropped Realms tomorrow… :drooling_face:

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Well the answer is clearly NO.

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Today comes a Info Video about Horizon 5 i Can Tell

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I told you :smiley:
Sadly it’s 8 weeks away

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First post updated, which includes the DLC car pack info.

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‘Bought’, meaning bought prior to the announcement, or before 25 April?

Thanks.