Cronos: The New Dawn

The game is quite intresting unfortunaelly at this stage the bugs are imparing quest progress. I'll revist later on after they managed to cover at least the main issues.

If you are a fan of survival horror games. This is the title for you. Rtx 4070 super and game works well.

Un des jeux de 2025 à faire absolument surtout si l'on a aimé silent hill 2 remake

....it does the job! It plays be nice on middle quality to DS and CP, but makes me happy to see a game like this!

TL;DR; if you like survivor horrors, you will like this one too. If you don't like survivor horrors, mod the game for "easy mode" and try it for the story and setting: it's worth it :). I'll start by stating: I don't like survivor horror games. The usual gameplay assumptions in this genre are, subjectively, not fun. So why I bought this title, you may ask? I really liked the setting and story vibes presented in trailers. Was it worth it? Yes, with a caveat that I'll explain later. Why should you play this game then? If you are a survivor horror player, this should feel like home to you: - I'm no expert obviously, but to me this game played in many ways like Dead Space Remake (for better or worse). It was tough but fair. Shooting felt very satisfying. And there were moments of genuine anxiety created not by simple jump scares, but by your expectations about what may happen in a moment. - Upgrades felt a bit lacking at the beginning but with time you'll notice how much they matter. - Enemy variety is a bit lacking and not all bosses are memorable, but for the most parts they are fine. - Developers really nailed resource drops, if you take the time to explore. Don't get me wrong: in a traditional survivor horror fashion, you will be counting every bullet and every scrap you'll find. But the game drops just enough of everything for you to be able to progress, if you're smart about your inventory content and how you approach combat. - Oh, and the inventory itself will be your worst enemy because it's so small. One big caveat here: there is no difficulty setting. I played Dead Space on easy (and I'm not ashamed of it!). I played it like that because of slow movement and no dodge. Combat frustrated me because of that and I have no patience for this kind of gameplay. If the combat is in real time, I prefer a more action-oriented style, that's why I don't like the genre. Here I had the same experience. I managed to get to about 2/3 of the story, but I just couldn't force myself to repeat a fight with one particularly annoying boss. The only reason I managed to finish this game is because I found a "story mode" mod, that made changes to inventory, game economics and resource drops. The combat was still hard and annoying, but at least now I had the depth of stuff to kill the boss before it killed me because of a small misstep. Purists will no doubt be disgust with what I did, but I really wanted to finish the story and that was the only way I could :). And on that note: the story and setting - the real reason you should play this title: - I'm from Kraków, where the game is set, so I can recognize a lot of details about the environment. There were quite a few artistic liberties taken, of course, but a lot feels genuine (those old trams!). - I'm not old enough to remember communist Poland directly, but I recognized a lot from stories and old movies. Developers made a great effort to recreate 1980s Poland in details, small and big, and in my opinion they succeeded. Underneath all that post apocalyptic rot you can really see a lot of from that place and time. - The story didn't start very strong for me, but 2 - 3 hours in it suddenly hooked me. I wanted to know what has happen, to the world and to characters from the past. The game drip-feeds the story at first, but with time you will find enough clues to start working on theories. The ending can be predicted, but for me it happened very near the end. And even after the credits, there are still questions to be answered. Not a sequel bate, but definitely a sequel possibility. - Voice acting, while not a lot of it, is good. One missed opportunity is the lack of Polish. It would really nail the vibe from the time and place. - And to cap it off: the music makes a great work. You won't hear it all the time. But when it starts, it amplifies everything. Tracks were chosen masterfully. On a technical note I didn't have many issues. I remember one crash near the end (acceptable enough in 20 or so hours I played). There were some minor stutters but only after loading a save or reaching a new location. Otherwise the game run ok without RT (around 80 fps in 4k on a 4080S, highest preset, and DLSS of course). And with frame generation you can even play with RT on, but I preferred to turn it off.