Jurassic World Evolution

“So you call it a world, when it’s quite clearly a park?” “… Yes.”

- Ian Dransfield

Frontier has been chipping away at the park-and-animal based games on Xbox formats for over a decade now, but we might finally have its magnum opus with Jurassic World Evolution.

Yes, even though it’s a movie tie-in, and yes, even though it calls itself World but has you build a park. It has to be named for the movie it’s releasing alongside, after all.

Evolution is the culmination of the British developer’s efforts, combining a console-friendly control system, deep and engaging park management mechanics (much more fun than that sounds), and some of the best dinosaurs we’ve yet seen in a game. As well as, of course, the ability to set the beasts loose in your park, if you’re a psychopath in waiting.