Best for level design
Forza Horizon 5
5.0 feature score
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Hollow Knight: Silksong
4.9 feature score
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Doom: The Dark Ages
11 supporting reviews
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Forza Horizon 6
4.1 overall score
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Level design earns praise for standout roads and elevation changes that create memorable racing routes.
Pros: controls responsiveness, movement feel
Cons: tutorial quality, animation quality
Level design is strongly praised for seamless area flow, purposeful rooms, thoughtful platform placement, and dense Metroidvania structure.
Pros: core gameplay loop, world interactivity
Cons: loot system, accessibility options
Road, city, track, and landscape design are often praised as dense and varied, though some criticism targets overly wide roads.
Pros: open-world design, replay value
Cons: dialogue quality, writing quality
Level design received mixed praise for larger arenas, secrets and vistas, but some reviewers found open spaces flatter, bland or less tightly paced.
Pros: environmental detail, polish
Cons: camera behavior, value for money
Level design split opinion, with some praising comfort or scenery and others criticizing railroading, strict linearity, or repetitive structure.
Pros: atmosphere, voice acting
Cons: world interactivity, camera behavior