Forza Horizon 6 moves Playground Games' open-world racer to a stylised Japan built around Tokyo, with over 550 cars and the largest map in the series. On a laptop it scales well from 1080p up to 1440p, so the aim is a gaming notebook that holds a steady frame rate with the detail turned up, whether you play on a keyboard, a controller or a wheel.

Microsoft lists 16GB of RAM and an SSD as the baseline, so treat those as the floor rather than the target. A current-generation NVIDIA RTX or AMD Radeon laptop GPU runs 1080p and 1440p High comfortably, a fast six-core-or-better Intel Core or AMD Ryzen chip keeps the open world fed, and an NVMe SSD covers the roughly 167GB install. Every laptop below is stocked locally in South Africa with warranty and quick delivery.