Frontier Is Making a New Disney Management Game — But It Hasn't Announced Which Disney IP Yet

Frontier Developments has entered into an agreement with Disney to develop and publish a new game built around Disney intellectual property. That’s a real, confirmed deal — but almost everything past that basic fact remains unannounced. Disney Parks, Disneyland and any specific Disney franchise have not been confirmed as the subject of the game.

What Frontier Has Actually Confirmed

Frontier’s own announcement, dated September 3, is specific about a few things and silent on the rest. Frontier will develop the game, publish it, and fully fund it itself. The project draws on what the company calls Disney’s “iconic portfolio of IP” — deliberately open wording that doesn’t name a single property. And Frontier ties it explicitly to its Creative Management Simulation (CMS) genre, the category it uses for games built around construction, management and long-running player-driven systems, rather than calling it simply “a new Disney video game.”

CEO Jo Cooke framed the deal as continuing a strategy: “We are delighted to announce this collaboration with Disney, which further reinforces our clearly defined strategy of developing and nurturing world-class creative management simulation game franchises.” She added that the goal is to “connect a passionate creative community of players with one of the world’s most iconic and beloved brands.”

No title, no platforms, no release window, and no confirmed Disney property have been announced.

Why Everyone’s Thinking Disney Parks

Frontier didn’t cite its CMS experience in the abstract — it named Planet Coaster, Planet Zoo and Jurassic World Evolution directly as the track record this deal builds on. Planet Coaster is a theme-park construction and management game; Jurassic World Evolution shows Frontier already knows how to take a major entertainment license and build a management sim around it. Put those two data points next to Disney’s own theme parks, and a Disney Parks management game is an obvious guess.

It’s a reasonable one. It just isn’t a confirmed one. Frontier’s Planet Coaster history makes a Disney Parks interpretation easy to imagine, but neither Frontier nor Disney has identified the underlying setting, and “portfolio of IP” is broad enough to cover plenty of things beyond the parks — nothing here should be read as evidence for Marvel, Star Wars, Pixar or Disney Animation, either.

Frontier Is Funding and Publishing This Itself

Worth sitting with for a second: Frontier says it’s fully funding the project while acting as both developer and publisher. That’s a meaningfully different arrangement than Disney simply commissioning a studio to build something Disney would publish — Frontier is the one carrying the development cost here, which is a real commitment on its part, even if the exact terms of the IP licensing deal itself haven’t been disclosed.

Don’t Confuse This With Frontier’s Other Planet Game

Frontier’s announcement also references a separate, still-unannounced Planet game already in development, alongside Planet Coaster, Planet Zoo and Jurassic World Evolution, as part of the studio’s broader CMS track record. Nothing in the announcement connects that project to the new Disney game — they’re referenced as two different things. Until Frontier says otherwise, don’t assume the unnamed Planet title and the Disney game are the same project, and don’t assume the Disney game will carry Planet branding.

What’s Still Unknown

The list is long by design: the specific Disney IP, the game’s title, platforms, a release window, gameplay systems, and whether it sits within the Planet series at all. Community speculation has jumped straight to Disney Parks, and that’s understandable given Frontier’s history — but it’s speculation, not something either company has confirmed. For now, the facts are limited to what Frontier actually said: a Disney deal exists, Frontier is building and funding it, and it’s a management simulation. Everything else is still to come.