Playground Games has walked through the creative toolset for Forza Horizon 6, and there is a lot packed in. Every player house now comes with a customizable garage, there is a whole new building plot called The Estate, EventLab has picked up a handful of upgrades the community has been asking for since Horizon 5, and for the first time in the series you can build events with friends in real time through a new feature called Horizon CoLab.
Customizable Garages at Every Player House
Every player house in FH6 now comes with a customizable garage, and it is more involved than it sounds. You fill the space with props, mix and match them however you want, display up to four cars, and pick the exact spot your character stands when someone visits. Props give back their full value if you remove them, so there is no real penalty for experimenting until something clicks.
You move around your own garage and other players' garages using a drone camera, which is the right call for multi-level builds. When you visit another player's space, their character will be posed wherever they placed it, next to whatever cars they chose to display. Forzavista is there too, so you can drop into any of the cars for a closer look. Layouts can be shared online, so if you see a garage you like you can download the layout and apply it to any of your own garages to show off your favorite cars in that style.
The Estate
The Estate is the bigger canvas. It is a vast building plot surrounded by mountains and cliffs, and it uses the upgraded EventLab toolset to let you build whatever you want in that space. Playground's examples are urban blocks, forest retreats, or a private festival, but the implication is that the ceiling is wherever your patience runs out. Unlike a normal EventLab route, The Estate is permanent, so you can invite people over and have them actually explore it.
Estates can also be downloaded and visited the same way garages can. One thing worth flagging early: both Customizable Garages and The Estate are solo-build only. Horizon CoLab, the new multiplayer building feature, does not apply to either. It is events and open-world creations only.
EventLab Gets the Quality-of-Life Pass It Needed
EventLab has picked up a handful of things solo builders have been asking for. Stamp lets you place the same prop repeatedly without reselecting it every time. Free Drive lets you test your event as you build it without the test run affecting the actual driving line. Undo and Redo are finally in. Individually these sound minor, but if you have ever spent an afternoon wrestling with EventLab, you know how much time this stack saves.
The bigger change is that you can now start building anywhere in the world. No loading into a blank lot, no picking a designated build spot. Drop into the map wherever you want and start placing props. You can also move the start grid inside the Route Creator, which means you can build something weird up in the sky and then relocate the starting line up there to race it.
When you create an event, the game auto-generates twelve grid positions, and they will snap to a road in a classic grid format if you are on one. You can freely edit them after: drag-style lineup, wide scatter across the map, a full circle facing inward — whatever fits the event you are building. Precision Mode is back for slower, more careful prop placement, and Orbit Camera can still be toggled in the options.
Super7 has been folded into EventLab, so Challenges now use the same toolset and inherit every one of the new upgrades. They are also no longer scattered on the map as activation points — they live in their own category inside the EventLab menu.
Horizon CoLab: Multiplayer Building, Finally
This is the headline addition. For the first time in the series, EventLab supports multiplayer building through Horizon CoLab. You can work on events and custom spaces with friends in real time, whether that is coordinated, thoughtful design with someone who actually knows what they are doing, or just piling ramps and smashables into the open world to ambush whoever drives through next.
Worth repeating, because it is easy to miss: CoLab works for EventLab and open-world builds, not for Customizable Garages or The Estate. Those remain solo-only spaces. A bit of a shame for couples or friends who wanted to build a shared estate together, but understandable given how much the permissions on a permanent, visitable space would need locking down.
Sharing and Browsing
Once you have finished whatever you are building, you can share it with the community. Playground says the Trending logic has been reworked so the featured catalog keeps rotating rather than settling into the same handful of top posts for months. No details yet on exactly what has changed under the hood, but the stated goal is an always-evolving feed of community creations.
Release Dates
Forza Horizon 6 launches on Xbox Series X|S and PC on May 19, 2026. Premium Edition and Premium Upgrade owners get Early Access from May 15. PS5 is scheduled for later in 2026, with pricing and edition details for that platform still to come.