We are back with the latest title from Frontier Developments, Jurassic World Evolution 3, and this time, the franchise feels more alive than ever. With the park opening to the world on October 21, 2025, the game builds upon the solid foundations of its predecessors with smarter dinosaurs, a selection of deeper management tools, and a level of visual fidelity that truly shines on my new PC. While it doesn’t completely reinvent the series, this third entry is easily the best way to experience the dream and chaos of running your own dinosaur park. Do you have what it takes to do what John Hammond couldn’t? Can you have a successful running park?
The Park Comes Alive
Straight from the off, it’s clear that Jurassic World Evolution 3 was designed with PC players in mind. Though I feel like simulation games are more at home on the PC than on Consoles but this is a personal preference. The increased performance headroom allows for larger parks, denser foliage, and far more detailed dinosaur behaviour, which in itself is miles better than the previous entries in the series.
Then, when you add the new juvenile dinosaurs (which I have been waiting for and now finally get to see), family groups, and social hierarchies, we get to see the dinosaurs come to life like never before and it transforms the park from a collection of exhibits into a believable ecosystem that needs to be maintained and looked after. There is nothing more stratifying than watching a herd of Parasaurolophus migrate together, or a raptor pack establish dominance.
It’s these details that make everything feel natural and, at times, thrilling. The game’s visuals are spectacular on a high-end rig. With ray-traced lighting, enhanced textures, and smoother animations, every scale and feather pops in crisp detail. One of the many joys I get from the Jurassic World Evolution series is being able to just sit back and watch the dinosaurs in their enclosures.
Being a huge dino nerd, this is literal heaven for me. The Weather effects, from misty dawns to tropical downpours, look phenomenal and make the weather conditions look believable rather than just pixels on a screen. Frontier have knocked the ball out the park with this instalment and the engine has never looked better, and the dinosaurs have never been this convincing, in the previous games they had interactions and behaviours but Evo 3 has made them feel as though you are actually in a modern day zoo and these animals are back from extinction, even more so with the ability to breed dino babies and not have to always rely on hatcheries.
Let’s now forget the fact that they have added new attractions for the guests, and my two favourites have to be the balloon ride and river cruise, these are fantastic to put in every park and make the joys of playing in a park out from scratch so much more fun. Not to mention the island customisation, where you can edit your islands before you jump into them to make your parks. These little things make a huge difference in the overall enjoyment you get, and it just goes to show that Frontier listens to the community and also has the passion needed to make these games thrive the way they do.
Smarter Management, Smoother Play
Jurassic World Evolution 3 introduces subtle but significant quality-of-life improvements that make running your park far more enjoyable than ever before. Tedious micromanagement tasks, such as ranger patrols and enclosure repairs, can now all be automated. Freeing up your time to focus on design and expansion. With the addition of the new global campaign structure, you’ll get to oversee multiple parks across different regions, each with it’s their own biome, challenges, and goals, which teaches you everything you need to know before taking on the other game modes.
I feel like this new campaign structure helps evolve the series by keeping the gameplay loop engaging without feeling too repetitive. I love that the UI has been redesigned to better suit keyboard and mouse controls.
It makes Drag-and-drop building feel more intuitive than ever, and performance scaling is excellent. Even if you are rocking on mid-range setups, the game runs smoothly at high settings, though, thanks to my recently upgraded PC, which has a juicy GPU, I get to take full advantage of a buttery 60+ FPS experience with all the graphical bells and whistles enabled, which allows everything to shine. I can honestly say the dinosaurs have not looked this good apart from in the films.
Creative Freedom Unleashed
If you’re here for sandbox building, and let’s be honest, most of us are. Even though the campaign is super fun, I find myself spending the majority of my time playing the Sandbox mode. Jurassic World Evolution 3 delivers in spades compared to the other two instalments. The new building toolkit has completely overhauled the way we can build our parks. The expanded terrain sculpting, modular structures, and customizable themes let you design parks with incredible precision, similar to the freedom and capability we see in Planet Zoo and Coaster.
The improved sharing system is a game-changer, and it makes it easy to upload and download community creations, ensuring the game has a long life beyond its campaign. Thanks to this amazing feature, we have seen just how amazing and passionate the community is, and the lengths they go to make fantastic-looking assists that we can use in our parks. One content creator whose content I have always loved to watch, as she is super creative with her park designs, I now get to use the assists made by Evolution Square in my parks, which I adore.
With the new building toolkit, we are able to do further trickery when it comes to lagoons and aviaries to make them look extra magical, as they still feel a bit limited in terms of what you can do with them unless you know how to master the building toolkit, like Evolution Square demonstrated in one of her videos.
There is still room to grow
I could go on for hours about how amazing the new game is, but the series’ biggest limitation remains in Jurassic World Evolution 3, and that is that it is a park management sim first, and a business sim second. While the dinosaurs and enclosures have incredible depth as we have never seen before in an Evolution game, the financial and guest systems still feel somewhat lightweight, even more so when you compare them to the Planet Series that Frontier also make.
Guests serve more as visual indicators of park health than entities with individual needs or behaviours. Back in the day, when we had JPOG, if you selected individual guests, you could see what they enjoyed, what they thought and what dinosaurs they had seen.
This level of depth, I feel, is missing from the current Evolution series. We also see minor performance quirks in larger parks where I have hundreds of dinosaurs on show, as well as details in enclosures and park details. The frame rate can dip slightly, and a few other reviewers have noted occasional stutters during heavy weather events. Don’t get me wrong, these are game-breaking in any way, but noticeable enough at certain times while playing.
It will be interesting to see if we will ever see Evolution give us the same business sim experience as we see in Zoo and Coaster, or whether it stays a Park Management Sim, which this player definitely doesn’t mind. The more time I get to spend on the dinosaurs and enclosures, the better.
Verdict
Well, what can I say? Jurassic World Evolution 3 on PC is the definitive way to experience Frontier’s dinosaur management saga, period. It’s visually stunning, mechanically refined, and endlessly satisfying to play. While it still plays things a bit safe on the business simulation side, the game’s attention to detail, quality-of-life improvements, and sheer sense of spectacle make it very hard to put down.
I was hoping to maybe see some of the dinosaurs from the recent film in the game, but I’m happy to wait, as they will probably be on the horizon in the form of a DLC pack. If you’ve ever wanted to build, manage, and watch life find its way on your own terms, then Jurassic World Evolution 3 gives you the ultimate sandbox to do it, and it’s never looked this good.
It’s A gorgeous, smartly evolved sequel that thrives on PC and is the best Jurassic World Evolution game yet, and for those reasons I’m giving it a 9 out of 10.
Jurassic World Evolution 3 Trailer
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