Frontier Developments has introduced Jurassic World Evolution 3, due out throughout its 2026 monetary 12 months. Which means will probably be out in some unspecified time in the future between June 1, 2025 and Might 31, 2026.
Frontier stated it had signed a license with Common Merchandise & Experiences for a 3rd Jurassic World recreation, which follows 2018’s Jurassic World Evolution and 2021’s Jurassic World Evolution 2. In February 2024, Common Photos and Amblin Leisure introduced an all-new Jurassic World occasion movie presently scheduled for launch on July 2, 2025, so Jurassic World Evolution 3 will purpose to learn from elevated pleasure in all issues dinosaurs generated by the film.
Jurassic World Evolution and Jurassic World Evolution 2 rank first and second respectively inside Frontier’s recreation portfolio when it comes to income generated of their first two years, the developer stated, with Jurassic World Evolution being Frontier’s best-selling recreation to this point since its launch nearly six years in the past. IGN’s Jurassic World Evolution 2 assessment returned a 7/10. We stated: “Whereas park administration and customization features are a bit shallow, Jurassic World Evolution 2 has tons of wonderful dinosaurs and thrilling methods to work together with them.”
Frontier has refocused on inventive administration simulation (CMS) video games after a tricky few years by which a variety of high-profile video games failed to fulfill gross sales expectations. In November, Frontier issued a buying and selling replace following poor launch gross sales of its real-time technique recreation Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Realms of Spoil. The studio has additionally suffered a spherical of layoffs. Earlier in April, Frontier bought the publishing rights to RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 to Atari for $7 million, bringing in much-needed money. Frontier not too long ago got here beneath hearth from Elite Harmful gamers after asserting plans to promote digital spaceships for actual cash.
Countering the doom and gloom, Frontier not too long ago stated gross sales of its video games since January have been “in-line with expectations”, with Jurassic World Evolution 2 and Planet Zoo main the cost. The current console launch of Planet Zoo noticed “sturdy participant engagement”, with whole gross sales as much as and together with the day of launch higher than the gross sales achieved by Planet Coaster when that recreation got here out on consoles in November 2020.
Over the following three consecutive monetary years, Frontier plans to launch one new CMS recreation per 12 months. There’s an unannounced own-IP CMS recreation for FY25, which Frontier stated is “on observe”, the third Jurassic World recreation confirmed at this time scheduled for FY26; and a 3rd unannounced CMS recreation deliberate for FY27.
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