Former head of Burnout developer Criterion Video games Fiona Sperry is doubling down on 2025’s Wreckreation by asserting a sequel is on the manner. The information could come as surprising, contemplating the lukewarm response to the unique, and the incontrovertible fact that the entire team at developer Three Fields Entertainment was placed on notice of redundancy in the rapid wake of Wreckreation’s launch, with no additional help from writer THQ Nordic forthcoming.
Wreckreation 2 is technically being developed by a brand new studio known as When Tides Flip, though this studio is reportedly staffed by veterans of Three Fields Leisure. Previous to Wreckreation, UK-based Three Fields Leisure made Harmful Golf, plus the Burnout-adjacent racers Hazard Zone and Harmful Driving.
Coming to PC, PS5, and Xbox Sequence X|S , Wreckreation 2 has no exact launch date but – however has solely been in growth for about three months, in response to (*2*).
Wreckreation 2 is described as extra compact than the unique, buying and selling its predecessor’s monumental but bland and one-note rural map for one thing that comprises much more city environments. The end result appears to be one thing which may be even nearer in spirit to the likes of Burnout Paradise than the unique Wreckreation, which already explicitly recreated modes, sound results, and elements of Burnout Paradise’s on-screen presentation.
IGN’s November 2025 assessment of Wreckreation famous its “unpredictable dealing with, uninteresting open-world map, [and] samey occasion construction” made it robust to advocate, and that it “looks like a grocery store model homage to a collection of higher arcade racers, constructed with the user-generated content material instruments of one other recreation.”
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