Forza Horizon 6, along with Forza Horizon 4 and 5 are dropping a major feature ahead of the next game’s release.
Forza Horizon 6 will not include in-game Clubs, marking the first time the Horizon series launches without the feature. The news comes after confirmation that Xbox’s social Clubs platform is being retired starting in April 2026. That means when Horizon 6 arrives, Clubs simply won’t be part of the experience.
Why Clubs Are Disappearing
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According to support updates tied to Forza Horizon 4 and Forza Horizon 5, Xbox social Clubs will be disabled platform-wide beginning in April 2026. It’s not that the game is dropping the feature; it’s the platform removing the infrastructure from the core. Since Horizon 4 and 5 used that infrastructure to power their in-game Clubs, both titles are losing the feature as a result.
For Horizon 5 players, a server-side update will remove the ability to join or manage Clubs entirely. On the other hand, Horizon 4 players will instead encounter an error message when trying to access Club-related features.
Because the functionality was removed at the Xbox platform level, Horizon 6 won’t support in-game Clubs at all. This isn’t a design decision specific to Playground Games; it’s a system-level change.
Interestingly, Forza Horizon 3 isn’t affected, since its Club functionality didn’t rely on the same services.
What This Means For Forza Horizon 6
For many players, Clubs weren’t just a menu tab; they were community hubs. You could form crews, compete on leaderboards, coordinate events, and rep your tag across the open world. It added identity to the shared online space.
Without Clubs, Horizon 6 will still feature multiplayer, convoys, and online events, but the structured social layer tied to Xbox Clubs is gone.
Some fans see this as the end of an era. Others are wondering whether Playground Games might eventually build a replacement system that doesn’t depend on Xbox’s retired infrastructure.
For now, though, the message is clear: when you fire up Forza Horizon 6, that familiar Club tab won’t be there.
And for a series built as much on community as it is on cars, that’s a pretty major shift.
Published: Mar 4, 2026 03:30 pm