Winter Resort Simulator 3 launches on December 10, 2026, on PC through Steam, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S. Publisher Aerosoft and developer Simuverse Interactive announced the date on November 11, and Steam lists no price yet. Like the first two games, it is a management sim with the heavy machinery left in. You run a ski resort and do much of the work yourself, from grooming the slopes to running the lifts.
The headline change is a 3D snow system that covers the whole map. Snow can be driven over, pushed into piles and shaped, and it keeps visible tracks. In plain terms, snow is now terrain you can move: smooth an uneven run, build up a new feature, or leave a ridge for someone else to flatten.
That snow system works in online co-op too. Crossplay links PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S, so friends on different machines can reshape the same mountain. The machines doing the shaping are licensed. There are snow groomers from Kässbohrer and PRINOTH, including the PistenBully 800 and the PRINOTH Bison X. Winch-equipped vehicles handle steep terrain, and the snow cannons are licensed as well.
What you run between snowcat shifts
The lifts are the second job. Ropeways from Doppelmayr and LEITNER come with recreated control systems and station machinery. You watch over lift operations and take on ropeway missions. Under the vehicles is the business: the resort's money, the weather, and goals that change with conditions. Aerosoft's announcement says little about how the books work, beyond saying the money and the weather are yours to handle. It calls the game "the richest, most detailed simulation in the Winter Resort series to date."
Simuverse was founded in Vienna in 2017. It began as a modding team and went on to make SubwaySim Hamburg and SubwaySim 2 as well as this series. The first Winter Resort Simulator came out on Steam on December 12, 2019, and Winter Resort Simulator 2 followed on November 26, 2020. Six years between the second and third games, after two in under a year, counts as a long winter. Aerosoft was founded at Paderborn/Lippstadt Airport in 1991. It started with flight sim add-ons and now publishes sims such as The Bus, OMSI 2 and Fernbus Simulator.
The new game is built in Unreal Engine 5 around the series' largest mountain resort, and modding tools will let players make their own vehicles and missions.
Winter Resort Simulator 3 is on Steam and the PlayStation Store for wishlisting now, ahead of December 10.
