Frontier is making a Planet game that isn't about zoos or rollercoasters, and has just filed trademarks for Planet Resort and Planet Festival

I'm a big fan of management sims, and I think Frontier's Planet Zoo and Planet Coaster series are some of the best modern examples you can play. Not the best—that award goes to last year's brilliant Two Point Museum, though there's a good chance the recently announced Planet Zoo 2 could steal the crown back from Two Point Studios.

One of the reasons Two Point Museum is so great is that it gives players a new institution to manage, something less familiar than a theme park or hospital that gives Two Point Studios room to explore new ideas. It seems Frontier is looking toward pastures new too, as it has just spilled the beans on a new management sim unrelated to zoos or rollercoasters.

"We've started work on a brand-new Planet Game franchise, which has all the familiarity you love, but a completely new setting for us than Planet Coaster or Planet Zoo, one which still combine...