Halo 5: Guardians is finally making its way to PC after 11 years, but not in the way fans might expect. To this day, Halo 5: Guardians remains the only mainline release without a PC port, and was never bundled alongside The Master Chief Collection as a way to bring it to the platform.
Halo 5's lack of a PC port is particularly odd given Xbox's focus on the platform in recent years. Every now and then, rumors would pop up about the prospect of a Halo 5 PC port, but these were usually quickly debunked as false. It is uniquely strange because Halo 5's Forge mode was released standalone on PC, allowing players to create maps which could then be played on the Xbox version of the game. So 343 Industries got the engine working on PC, but for whatever reason, never made a full port.
A new Halo release with a massive $1,995 price tag is quietly dropped for 2028 amid the franchise's ongoing reset.
Thanks to a new project called Halo 5 Reforged, gamers will soon be able to play the entire game on PC. Building on the game's existing PC foundation, Halo 5 Reforged...
