Dambuster Studios are planning to keep their next truckload of undead penned in for a few more years, before opening the big zombie door in early 2028. That’s according to some financial docs from the Dead Island developers, in which their plans for Dead Island 3 as of the end of March this year are laid bare.
The docs, spotted by a Twitterer with the handle @bogorad222, are Dambuster’s annual financial report for the fiscal year that ended on March 31st, 2025. As such, they contain many numbers, but also a section on the studio’s current strategy.
Basically, the plan is to now go full steam ahead on Dead Island 3. All Dambuster’s developers are now working on Dead Island 3, to be joined by the studio’s QA staff once Dead Island 2’s Luna and Mac versions are done and dusted. “Parts of the game are now in early production with feature, character, world and story design moving at pace,” the report says of DA3, before whipping out that planned release window of some point in 2028’s first two financial quarters.
Putting things into real human years, that window likely means the third zombpocalyspse will come by the end of June 2028, assuming things go to the current plan.
This the first concrete news we’ve gotten about Dead Island 3, unless you count Dambuster teasing it with a Steam post which mentioned they’re “already carving out what comes next” back in September. At any rate, you’ve got plenty of time to read back over our Dead Island 2 review, in which Rick Lane judged that while “not worth waiting eleven years for”, it’s “a breezy, messy adventure that has zero nutritional value, but will fill your bloodstream with yummy, delicious sugar.”