Horizon Decades Winter Playlist Completion Guide – Forza Horizon 6

Winter in Horizon Decades of Forza Horizon 6 is a one-week set built entirely around 2000s cars, and almost every tile leans on the same decade filter and, for the harder events, an S1 class tune. This guide follows the Winter Horizon Decades challenge set in order, from the weekly right through to the online objectives, so you can tick off all of it in a single sitting. Exact seasonal reward cars and point thresholds aren’t firmly nailed down for this rotation yet, so treat completion as the goal rather than chasing a specific unlock.

The full Winter Horizon Decades checklist

Here’s every top-level objective in one place. Work down it in any order you like — the only tile that must be done in sequence is the weekly challenge. If your in-game playlist shows the 2020 BMW M2 Competition Coupé and a Soni Time Attack instead, you’re looking at a different Winter rotation, so match whatever the live playlist names.

How to complete Theory of Evolution in Forza Horizon 6

The weekly challenge is a four-part chain in one specific car, and it only counts if you drive each part in that Lancer.

Own and drive the 2001 Lancer Evolution VI GSR T.M. Edition

Grab it under Mitsubishi in the Auto Show for 66,000 credits, then just drive it in the open world to clear the first step.

Complete three laps at the Sekibe Time Attack

This is the dirt Time Attack marked by the Time Attack banner, and the step only ticks once you finish the third full lap, not on any set time.

Earn three stars at the Festival Loop Speed Trap Zone

Run the dirt speed trap near the festival site in the same car with an S1 tune and beat 145 km/h to three-star it.

Win a dirt race in the same Lancer

Open the map, pick a dirt race such as King Kaku G Trail, choose custom race, set the car theme to Current Car so your Lancer is eligible, and win.

Winter daily challenges

Most of these fall out naturally while you’re already driving a 2000s car — the Lancer from the weekly covers the drift taps, the Trailblazer stars, and the Inner City Run all on its own. The one you can grab cheaply is I got a peeling: buy the 1962 Peel P50 from the Auto Show for just under 20,000 credits and drive a single lap at any Time Attack circuit.

Three dailies trip people up. Y2K demands a Road Circuit — a race that loops back on itself, like the highway circuit — in an electric domestic car (filter past the classes in the Auto Show to the electric domestics list), so a sprint or street race won’t register. Mini in the middle needs a Threading the Needle skill in any Mini, which you earn by driving between two oncoming cars on a highway. And Inner City Run is genuinely tricky: you need 45,000 drift points in the drift zone using a 2000s car, so keep a clean line the whole way through.

How to finish the Photo Challenge and Treasure Hunt in Forza Horizon 6

1. INTRO: These two map tiles are quick once you know the car filter and the chest’s northern location.
2. Photograph a 2000s Rally Monster for Millennial Monster — Open the Auto Show filter and select Rally Monsters, then take out a 2000s option like the 2007 Peugeot 207 Super 2000, open camera mode while driving it, and snap the shot.
3. Follow the Treasure Hunt clue to the Sotoyama region — The chest sits all the way to the north of the map, so head to the northern Sotoyama area the clue points to.
4. Drive into the chest by the log cabin — Stick to the road until you reach the log cabin, then simply drive your car into the treasure chest tucked beside it.

The Photo Challenge shows up in-game as Millennial Monster, asking for a photo of any 2000s Rally Monster — the 2007 Peugeot 207 Super 2000 is a solid pick if you have it or don’t mind buying it. Some Winter listings phrase this tile as a QuickChat photo prompt instead, so if the wording differs on your screen, the underlying job is still a camera shot of an eligible car.

Stray from the Path and Retro Rewind championships

Watch the class as closely as the decade — Stray from the Path caps you at B-class while Retro Rewind runs at A-class, and both restrict the field to specific 2000s body styles. Tune into the right class before you queue so the game doesn’t bounce your car.

Solo PR stunts: Time Attack, Speed Zone, and Drift Zone

These three PR stunts all share the same restriction — an S1 category car from the 2000s — so one properly tuned car clears the set. The table carries the exact targets; the driving notes below it are where the time actually comes from.

For the Hokubu Time Attack, 58 seconds is generous — a quick S1 2000s car with a good run at the line can come in around 54 seconds, so back up before the start to carry speed in. The Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route Speed Zone runs between the ice walls and is all about holding an average, so keep the car above 160 km/h on the straights and only bleed off what you must for the turns without kissing the wall; a 2009 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 (around 120,000 credits) tuned to stay in S1 handles it comfortably. The Mount Haruna Drift Zone only needs 115,000 points, which arrives well before the end of the run, so keep it slow and controlled on the snow — going too fast slides you off the track, and off-track means no points. Any S1 2000s car works for all three; the specific picks are just suggestions.

The Trial, Horizon Play, and The Eliminator

Winter closes out with three online objectives, and the scoring rules differ enough that it’s worth knowing exactly what “done” means for each before you queue.

Win The Trial: Forward Thinking

Queue as a team against Unbeatable AI, then out-score them over the races — your team’s points, not just your finish, decide it, so help teammates push AI cars off the road to bank more overtakes.

Complete Horizon Play: Heroes

Start it from the tile or through online Horizon Play and finish a Horizon Racing Championship; you don’t have to win, you just have to complete all three races, and joining one already in progress counts as long as you’re there at the end.

Place in The Eliminator

Jump into the Eliminator battle royale from the tile or online Horizon Play and finish 30th or better to clear the final challenge.

The distinction that catches people out: The Trial is a team result — your side needs more points than the AI across two races — while Horizon Play: Heroes is pure participation, so simply seeing the championship through is enough. For The Eliminator, surviving to 30th or better is the bar, not winning outright.

Video help

When a Winter objective will not complete

Nearly every “it didn’t count” report comes down to a car or race-type restriction rather than a bug. Run through these before assuming the tile is broken.