Dead Island 3 is aiming to unleash the hordes in 2028, with early production of key bits "moving at pace"

Assuming a existent zombie apocalypse hasn't arrived by then

Dambuster Studios are readying to support their adjacent truckload of undead penned successful for a fewer much years, earlier opening the large zombie doorway successful aboriginal 2028. That's according to immoderate fiscal docs from the Dead Island developers, successful which their plans for Dead Island 3 arsenic of the extremity of March this twelvemonth are laid bare.

The docs, spotted by a Twitterer with the grip @bogorad222, are Dambuster's yearly fiscal study for the fiscal twelvemonth that ended connected March 31st, 2025. As such, they incorporate galore numbers, but besides a conception connected the studio's existent strategy.

Basically, the program is to present spell afloat steam up connected Dead Island 3. All Dambuster’s developers are present moving connected Dead Island 3, to beryllium joined by the studio's QA unit erstwhile Dead Island 2's Luna and Mac versions are done and dusted. "Parts of the crippled are present successful aboriginal accumulation with feature, character, satellite and communicative plan moving astatine pace," the study says of DA3, earlier whipping retired that planned merchandise model of immoderate constituent successful 2028's archetypal 2 fiscal quarters.

Putting things into existent quality years, that model apt means the 3rd zombpocalyspse volition travel by the extremity of June 2028, assuming things spell to the existent plan.

This the archetypal factual quality we've gotten astir Dead Island 3, unless you number Dambuster teasing it with a Steam station which mentioned they're "already carving retired what comes next" backmost successful September. At immoderate rate, you've got plentifulness of clip to work backmost implicit our Dead Island 2 review, successful which Rick Lane judged that portion "not worthy waiting eleven years for", it's "a breezy, messy escapade that has zero nutritional value, but volition capable your bloodstream with yummy, delicious sugar."