Jurassic Park: Survival — Everything We Know

It’s been a good twenty or so years since Savage Entertainment abandoned Jurassic Park: Survival, and so, in our minds, a revival was well overdue. As luck would have it, Saber Interactive recently took the opportunity to reassemble the scattered ashes from the former wreckage and do something about it. It isn’t the same game, but it is, more or less, a love letter to the 1993 cult classic movie — similar to what Savage Entertainment’s project was in line to be, before ultimately being scrapped due to poor animations and a lack of funding from Universal. Swings and roundabouts, you know how it is.

Jurassic Park: Survival isn’t due to arrive for a fair while yet, but if you happen to be interested in the upcoming single-player stealth-action IP by Saber, then be sure to read on. Here’s everything we currently know about it.

What Is Jurassic Park: Survival?

Jurassic Park: Survival is an upcoming first-person stealth-adventure game, as well as a love letter to Stephen Spielberg’s 1993 movie adaptation. The game, which will serve as a continuation of the movie, will feature a brand-new story—a tale that will reportedly include a “fully realized Isla Nublar filled with reactive wildlife, dinosaurs, and other surprising threats.”

From the sounds of the press release, Jurassic Park: Survival will take a giant leaf out of Alien: Isolation’s book; it will feature a mixture of stealth-based gameplay, and essentially use visual and audio FX to establish tension and control. A stealth-adventure game at heart, the title will look to deliver a deeply immersive experience that’s not only faithful to the source, but modernized and refined for newer hardware.

Story

Isla Nublar descended into chaos in the aftermath of the prehistoric outbreak, and all but one made it out alive. Dr. John Hammond, Dr. Alan Grant, and Dr. Ellie Sattler were able to successfully escape from the rampaging dinosaurs and flee for the hills, but for one scientist—Maya Joshi—such an opportunity never materialized, which led to the unfortunate soul not only rotting in the tyrannosaurs’ labyrinth, but also scraping the bare bones of an abandoned island left in turmoil.

In case you haven’t guessed it yet, Jurassic Park: Survival will slump you into the shoes of the good scientist, Maya Joshi, who must learn to navigate Isla Nublar and survive its prehistoric curveballs while attempting to make contact with the outside world. Along the way, players will have the chance to explore key landmarks from the 1993 movie, “from the iconic towering park gates to the Visitor Center and beyond.” So, if you ever wondered what it would be like to climb those electric fences of 1993’s Jurassic Park, at least now you can. Or at least, that’s what we’ve been led to believe, anyhow.

Of course, there’s still a great deal we don’t actually know about the story yet. That said, we do know this: Jurassic Park: Survival will take place exactly one day after the events of the 1993 movie, a point where the likes of John Hammond are no longer around, and the only beings left are the dinosaurs that patrol its broken borders. As Maya, you will need to muster up the courage to locate your own escape—a daring feat that will involve going toe-to-claw with some of the most dangerous beasts on the entire food chain.

Gameplay

We can’t say we know a whole lot about the gameplay side of things, but we do know for a fact that the game will be single-player, and will be divided between open-world exploration, light puzzle-solving, and stealth-based “combat”—three signature ingredients that also happened to make it into the likes of Alien: Isolation and Amnesia: The Bunker. And while we can’t exactly say for certain how much Jurassic Park: Survival will take from these two blueprints, we can say that it’ll feature a lot of similar elements — especially when it comes to stealth, and learning how to maneuver whilst staying beneath the radar and out of harm’s way.

Saber Interactive has also stated that it’ll be a survival game, which means that there could also be a few seasonal tropes, such as scavenging for supplies, managing resources, and keeping a lid on certain needs, such as health, hunger, and thirst. That isn’t to say we’re bang on the money, mind you, so perhaps it’s best to take everything with a slight grain of salt.

Development

Introducing Jurassic Park: Survival, an upcoming single-player action-adventure for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S! pic.twitter.com/YCRSLVDAvu

— Jurassic Park: Survival (@jpsurvival) December 8, 2023

To put you in the picture, Jurassic Park: Survival is being developed by Saber Interactive, a studio best known for recent titles such as World War Z and Evil Dead: The Game. In case you missed it, the project was first teased during The Game Awards, which aired on December 7, 2023.

Trailer

Despite Jurassic Park: Survival having little to no in-depth plot points at this moment in time, the game does, in fact, have a short gameplay trailer over on its corresponding streaming channel. You can check it out for yourself in the post embedded above.

Release Date, Platforms & Editions

Jurassic Park: Survival will be heading to Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5, and PC at some point in the (hopefully) not-so-distant future. It hasn’t received a launch date yet, but if we had to take a shot in the dark and circle a loose release window, then we’d have to opt for a late 2024 debut. Fingers crossed, anyway.

Saber Interactive’s upcoming IP caught your eye? If so, then be sure to check in with the team over on their official social handle here. If, however, something even the slightest bit newsworthy does pop up out of the blue, then we’ll be sure to fill you in on all the key details right here on gaming.net.

So, what’s your take? Will you be picking up a copy of Jurassic Park: Survival when it arrives on consoles and PC? Let us know your thoughts over on our socials here.