Frontier announce third Jurassic World game and two other management sims

rockpapershotgun.com:

Pteranodon-fanciers and Stegosaur-whisperers, please throw your velociraptor-skin hats skyward in adulation. Frontier have partnered with Universal to make a third Jurassic World videogame. It's one of three new management games inbound from the Elite Dangereux developer over the next few years, including a game based on one of Frontier's own intellectual properties.

All this is part of Frontier's recent decision to double down on what they're calling the "creative management sim" genre - I hadn't come across "creative management sim" prior to writing this post, and I'm not sure how I feel about it. Actually seems quite cosy? Also probably sinister? Anyway, here's a chunk from the announcement release:

"Over the last twelve months Frontier has refined its strategy to focus on its leading position in the creative management simulation ('CMS') genre, with four successful titles already in its portfolio; Planet Coaster, Planet Zoo, and the first two Jurassic World Evolution games. Over the next three consecutive financial years, Frontier plans to release one new CMS game per year; the development of the unannounced own-IP CMS game for FY25 is on track and Frontier expects to announce the title in the coming months; the third Jurassic World game confirmed today is scheduled for FY26; and a third unannounced CMS game is planned for FY27."

To rephrase those dates according to the time systems of we lower lifeforms: the currently owned-IP game (top possibilities include a new Planet Coaster) should release between 1st June 2024 and 31st May 2025, with the new Jurassic World game coming between 1st June 2025 and 31st May 2026, and the final unannounced management sim arriving between 1st June 2026 and 31st May 2027.

Frontier's previous Jurassic Parking simulators aren't among our favourite management games. "Jurassic World Evolution is the most boring of all possible outcomes for a dinosaur theme park sim," Fraser Brown - who was an RPS contributor before he snuck off