Cronos: The New Dawn is a brutal third-person survival horror where you fight for the future by salvaging the past. Burn monsters before they merge. Extract souls from the living. Adapt or die.
SURVIVE THE FUTURE. SALVAGE THE PAST
Set in a grim world where Eastern European brutalism meets retro-futurist technology, Cronos: The New Dawn lets you experience a gripping story that straddles the line between past and future.
In the past, you will witness a world in the throes of The Change, a cataclysmic event that forever altered humanity. Meanwhile, in the ravaged wastelands of the future, every moment is a fight for survival against dangerous abominations that will test both your reflexes and your tactical thinking.
You are a Traveler working for the enigmatic Collective, tasked with scouring the wastelands of the future in search of time rifts that will transport you to 1980s-era Poland.
ADAPT OR PERISH
In a desolate world filled with ever-present danger, your survival hinges on your ability to strategize and plan ahead. The enemies you’ll encounter are nightmarish creatures, born from the remnants of humanity – defeating them will require you to make full use of your arsenal.
You can manipulate temporal Anomalies to clear a path through the desolate environment, and will have to scavenge for resources to replenish your limited ammo and supplies. Good preparation is key. Once in battle, split-second decisions can mean the difference between life
and death.
DON'T LET THEM MERGE
The creatures you kill won’t stay dead for long. Fallen enemies can be absorbed by others — through a grotesque process called Merging — to become faster, tougher, and far deadlier.
The only way to stop them? Burn their bodies. And do it fast.
If you don’t, you’ll face ever-evolving abominations that will push your combat skills to their limits.
HARVESTER OF SOULS
Your mission is to locate key people from the past who perished in the ensuing apocalypse. Using your all-powerful Harvester, you can extract their Essences and have them accompany you into the future.
But be wary: these essences have a profound impact on your journey.
The more you carry, the more haunted your suit becomes — increasing your prowess on the battlefield but also bringing with them whispers in your ear and flickers into your vision, edging you ever closer to madness.
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Posted on: October 10, 2025
jmhollifield
Verified ownerGames: 82 Reviews: 1
Cronos: The New Dawn
Fairly standard survival horror with challenging mechanics. Really neat narrative concept.
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Posted on: September 15, 2025
Seaalon
Verified ownerGames: 132 Reviews: 1
The UE5 curse strikes again
Playing on a 9070 XT requires me to disable raytracing (pretty much mandatory) and lower my settings or enable upscaling. I don't expect to do either with any game, nor do I feel like I should. I want to like this game and I liked the 2 hours I played so far, but it's unacceptable to release a game in this state. Refunded for now, will buy once (if) fixed.
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Posted on: September 18, 2025
kordtone
Verified ownerGames: 200 Reviews: 24
One map short of a perfect score.
That's my only gripe. No map. With that out of the way, let's move on to my praise and love for this game. As an American, I can’t fully grasp what it must have been like for people my age to be born and raised under a communist regime, only to witness its collapse, the rise of free enterprise, and the relentless persecution of the Church during that era all while, millions of Polish Catholics remained steadfast in the face of state-sponsored atheism and omnipresent propaganda. What truly resonates with me is how Cronos: The New Dawn weaves all of that into it's plot while proudly embracing its Polish identity. The game thoughtfully critiques mindless collectivism while simultaniously reflects on the selfishness of individualism. It acknowledges Poland’s deep Catholic roots without shying away from a constructive examination of the Church’s past missteps. The narrative vividly depicts a violent, all-powerful state losing its grip as society unravels, weaving in real-world history—like the eerie Soviet drilling of the “Well to Hell” at the Kola Superdeep Borehole. But Cronos goes further, blending science fiction and horror through time travel, enigmatic advanced (human?) visitors from a possible future, a viral apocalypse, and mind-bending concepts like the grandfather paradox and fate. This imaginative fusion delivers a survival horror experience that feels tailor-made, rich in both story and atmosphere. Simply put: this game is a must-play.
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Posted on: September 30, 2025
FellingGogy
Verified ownerGames: 103 Reviews: 1
Sucks you in and does not stop
I am amazed at how the pacing and atmosphere of this game have managed to keep me engaged for almost every second of my time with it so far. Its Residead Space in some post-disaster Sci-Fi USSR future-past starring an autismo robo lady. I don't know what it is that works about this game, but it works very well. Highly recommended!
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Posted on: September 12, 2025
Vulcan242
Games: 87 Reviews: 4
To much oldfashioned, but preety good
Expectation were middle, and Cronos easily riched that. Game is slow and thick with climate cream-like soup. Visually and sound-wise the game meets expectations as well. But I personally have problem with lvl. of difficulty and game mechanics. I see that Bloober wanted to make game like old RE with a touch of Dead Space, but this not this what people knowning BT have expected. They went too far, far too far! Almost every aspect of the game mechanics looks like it has been made to make you suffer. I like when on the start game is on medium level, a then new, more challenging levels unlocked. Cronos is going on differnt direction. Same story with inventory. You do really must manage this well at all time, sometimes even wasteing some resources, to free space. Crafting system slighty cheating you, not allowing to upgrade your inventory slotes or suit, even you have enough cores! Here I have to addmit, that cores are quite rare to find, so you suppsed to be rewarded if somehow, someway you found them in amount unexpected by the game . No. There is no rewards! And there is more of that, but this you must find by yourself, couse even i the light of all I sad game is still addictive and tempting you to go deeper and deeper. I know there will be a lot of people appreciate Cronos for been tough and no mercifull, saying words of his own pray - Hard game for petient players. I'm not buying this! instead of been tough as tough can be, game should loosen the reins a bit, while still remaining a demanding and more positioned versatile, including promising but quite empthy story line. Cronos is definetlly a game in category "only for fans". the average player, even an experienced one, but not necessarily a fan of this kind of atmosphere, will probably give up on this game.
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