The game was created by a development team of approximately 100 people with a budget of around £8 million. It can also be used from the main menu without having to be unlocked. A sandbox mode set on Isla Nublar, the setting of the first and fourth films, can be unlocked. Players are given contracts to fulfill by three divisions, Science, Security and Entertainment, allowing them to progress. The game features more than 40 types of dinosaurs their genes can be modified to introduce new features. In the game, players construct a dinosaur park on Las Cinco Muertes Archipelago, a group of five islands also known as the 'Five Deaths'. A Nintendo Switch port of the game was released in November 2020.
Based on the 2015 film Jurassic World, the game was released in June 2018, for PlayStation 4, Windows, and Xbox One. Jurassic World Evolution is a construction and management simulation video game developed and published by Frontier Developments.