For decades, Jurassic Park (1993) has been revisited, expanded, and reimagined—just never outright reset. Even when the franchise evolved into Jurassic World (2015), the original film remained untouched as a singular starting point. Now, that may be changing.
Jurassic Park Is Getting Another Soft Reboot
An official behind-the-scenes featurette for the upcoming first-person action-adventure video game Jurassic Park: Survival reveals that Saber Interactive isn’t just building a sequel—it’s reconstructing the Jurassic Park experience as seen in the original 1993 film.
Set just one day after the events on Isla Nublar, the game places players in the role of Dr. Maya Joshi, an InGen scientist left behind during the evacuation. On paper, it’s a continuation, but in execution, it’s closer to a playable reinterpretation of the film.
The strongest indication comes from creative director Oliver-Hollis Leick, who directly addressed how the team approached adapting the film’s most memorable moments. In the behind-the-scenes featurette released by Saber and Universal last summer, he said:
“When we were deciding how to introduce the raptors, one thing that jumped out to us was, ‘What if we could make the player experience what Lex and Tim did in the kitchen?’ That and other sequences like it are meant to put you in the shoes of those movie characters to experience the terror for yourself.”
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Survival Is More of a Re-creation Than an Homage
What initially looked like an homage to Steven Spielberg’s groundbreaking film—glimpses of the Visitor Center, the jungle, the park gates—now reads as something more deliberate. These aren’t just references; they’re scenarios being rebuilt for direct participation.
The original trailer, which debuted at The Game Awards 2023, already hinted at this approach. Rather than focusing on systems or mechanics, it leaned heavily on familiar imagery: dark kitchens, rain-battered jungles, and dinosaur encounters staged in recognizable locations. At the time, it was easy to interpret that as nostalgia-driven marketing.
But Leick’s comments suggest otherwise. Instead, Jurassic Park: Survival appears to operate in two modes simultaneously: a canonical sequel that fills in the immediate aftermath of the 1993 film, and an immersive experience that revisits its most iconic beats—only this time, without the safety of watching from a distance.
That duality places it in similar territory to Jurassic World (2015), which mirrored the original film’s premise while moving the timeline forward. The key difference here is perspective. Where the film repeated the idea of a park gone wrong, the game seems intent on recreating specific moments of wonder and terror, almost beat for beat.
And unlike a traditional remake, those moments won’t play out the same way twice.
With a fully explorable Isla Nublar—including known landmarks and previously unseen facilities—the setting supports that approach. Familiarity becomes part of the tension: players know what happened in these spaces, just not how they’ll survive them.
Jurassic Park: Survival is currently in development for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC, with no release date announced.
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