"The developer has a big release around the corner in Planet Zoo 2, slated for launch on October 13, but Frontier Developments also has plans for additional releases in the years ahead."
Frontier Developments just dropped a multi-year roadmap in its latest earnings report, and there's more on the way than most fans were probably expecting. Three new titles are now confirmed across fiscal years 2028, 2029, and 2030, and while the details are slim, the shape of what's coming is starting to come into focus.
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What the roadmap actually says
The first confirmed release is a new entry in the Planet franchise, targeting fiscal year 2028. Here's the thing: Frontier was explicit that this won't be another Planet Coaster or Planet Zoo title. It's a brand-new direction within the franchise, which makes it the most interesting unknown on the list right now.
FY2029 brings a new Construction & Management Simulation title. Frontier hasn't named it, but the obvious candidates are Planet Coaster 3 or another Jurassic World Evolution game. Neither is confirmed, so treat any speculation as exactly that.
The big one is the Disney collaboration, slated for FY2030 at the earliest. Frontier already announced this partnership earlier this year, and the roadmap confirms it's still on track, though it's the furthest out of the three. No gameplay details, no title, no platform specifics yet.
Planet Zoo 2 comes first
Before any of that lands, Planet Zoo 2 launches on October 13, 2026. That's the immediate priority for Frontier, and it makes sense that the studio is staggering its bigger reveals until after that release settles. Alongside the major launches, Frontier confirmed that existing titles will keep receiving both paid DLC and free updates, so current players won't be left waiting with nothing.
Reading between the lines on Disney
The Disney tie-up is the one that has the most room to go in unexpected directions. Frontier's track record with licensed IP is solid, given what the studio built with Jurassic World Evolution, and a Disney collaboration opens up a genuinely enormous range of possible settings. Theme parks are the obvious guess given Frontier's history with Planet Coaster, but nothing is confirmed.
What's clear is that Frontier is treating FY2030 as the outer boundary, not a firm date. That gives the team roughly four years of runway, which for a major licensed title isn't a lot, but it's workable.
For players who want to stay across everything Frontier and the broader sim genre are doing, the Palworld 1.0 release date guide is a good example of how quickly the management sim space is moving right now. There's genuine competition for Frontier's audience, and that probably factors into why the studio is keeping its pipeline visible.
Three games, three years, plenty of questions
The roadmap gives fans a skeleton, not a schedule. Three titles confirmed, zero of them fully detailed, and the nearest one still two fiscal years out. Frontier is clearly signaling that the studio has capacity beyond Planet Zoo 2, which matters for investor confidence as much as fan anticipation.
The new Planet franchise entry is the most intriguing piece. A fresh direction in a well-established brand could go anywhere, and Frontier hasn't given any hints beyond ruling out the two most obvious answers.
For everything else releasing this year and beyond, check out the gaming guides hub for the latest coverage across the biggest titles.
