Forza Horizon veterans team up with Focus Entertainment for new open-world racer CLUTCH

Focus Leisure has partnered with Maverick Video games to publish CLUTCH, a brand-new open-world racing sport from a studio full of former Forza Horizon expertise.

The sport is seeking to launch in Spring 2027 on PS5, Xbox Sequence X|S, and PC, marking Focus Leisure’s first main step into the open-world racing style.

When you haven’t heard about Maverick Video games but, it was based by a gaggle of veteran builders together with former Forza Horizon inventive director Mike Brown, so you realize what they’re doing with regards to automotive video games.

Investing into an precise story

What’s fascinating about CLUTCH is that relatively than merely giving us one other huge map stuffed with races, it’s going large on its story which is being written by Jamie Brittain, co-creator of British TV collection Skins.

You’ll tackle the function of a brand new era racing outsider residing one thing of a double life. Through the day, you’ll compete on the highest ranges {of professional} motorsport, whereas evening sees you enter a extra harmful underground racing scene constructed round status.

There’ll nonetheless be a lot for these extra considering vehicles than characters, in fact. Maverick Video games is promising deep car customisation, permitting you to change your vehicles whereas shaping your personal development via the sport.

Focus Leisure Deputy CEO Vincent Chataignier mentioned the writer appears to be like for creators able to redefining their respective genres, describing Brown and his group as a number of the racing style’s “defining inventive voices”.

Brown, in the meantime, mentioned Maverick Video games was based particularly to create the open-world racing expertise its builders had needed to construct for years.

There’s nonetheless a lot we don’t find out about CLUTCH, together with precisely the place its open world can be situated and the way its day and evening racing scenes will work in follow, however we’re positive all of this can be unveiled in the end.