The official Forza website has confirmed what we all-but knew already in its year-end round-up for the franchise: Forza Motorsport is just about dead, with no more updates planned for the title.
It had been a relatively positive 2025 for the title up until the middle of the year, with the content updates coming thick and fast. New cars were plentiful and, although there hadn’t been any new tracks since Bathurst’s arrival in December, the arrival of the fan-favorite Fujimi Kaido from FM4 to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the title capped off a solid first five months.
But then the wheels almost literally fell off. Back in January, the Forza socials had announced that the first half of 2025 would be focusing on new content while features would be pushed back to later in the year — which was a warning sign nobody truly heeded. Following the release of the IndyCar update in June, T10 went uncharacteristically silent.
Shortly thereafter it was revealed that the studio was one of several affected by a fresh round of layoffs at Microsoft, with some reports suggesting that Turn 10 had lost almost half of its staff in the cuts. Among the personnel losing their jobs was FM creative director Chris Esaki, which was the surest sign the title was in serious trouble.
Roll onto August, and T10 announced its intention to continue to support FM. It wasn’t totally clear what was meant by this, but in the intervening months we’ve seen old Tours — limited-time events keyed to updates — returning to the game on a permanent basis without new content. This, it seems, doesn’t require game updates to accomplish, as evidenced by the lack of them since June; September’s “Update 22” required no download.
The latest announcement is the figurative other shoe. In its year-end message, the Forza site plainly states that there are no plans for “new cars, tracks, features, or regular bug fixes”. It will, however, continue the reintroduction of previously expired Tours (and their reward cars), until such a time as all of the content is available permanently, while the game’s online servers will remain on for the foreseeable future.
This message signs off by saying that the team is shifting to support the development of Forza Horizon 6, based on T10’s own ForzaTech, ready for its launch in 2026. That does not bode well for the future of the Forza Motorsport series, but we’re not quite ready to pick out a plot for it just yet — and even then, titles have returned long after being thought dead before…
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