Frontier files trademarks for Planet Resort and Planet Festival as it teases a new management sim

Frontier – the studio behind Planet Coaster and Planet Zoo – has confirmed it's working on a brand-new management sim set in a completely different world from theme parks or zoos. Head of player engagement Richard Stephenson broke the news in a Discord post, saying the new game keeps everything fans love about the Planet series – creativity, management, and meaningful simulation – but takes it somewhere new.

On Monday, Frontier filed nine trademarks: Planet Resort, Planet Festival, Planet Farm, Planet Vacation, Planet Dinosaur, Planet Prehistoric, Planet Fantasy, Planet Mythical Creatures, and Planet Dragon. Planet City – one of the most popular community guesses – isn't among them. Some of these are almost certainly defensive filings; Planet Dinosaur seems unlikely given Frontier already runs the Jurassic World Evolution series, and Planet Farm feels too close to Planet Zoo territory given Stephenson's explicit mention of a completely new setting.

Of the credible options, Planet Resort stands out as the frontrunner – managing a hotel chain shares obvious DNA with running a theme park or zoo. Planet Fantasy is an intriguing wildcard, but dragons and knights might create too much friction for Frontier's style of accessible management gameplay. The Reddit community has been speculating hard since the announcement, with Resort, Festival, and City topping the suggestion threads.

Don't expect to see this one soon. Planet Zoo 2 is still releasing later this year, and there were two years between that and Planet Coaster 2 – which puts a brand-new Planet franchise realistically somewhere around 2028 at the earliest.