Cronos: The New Dawn from Bloober Team is looking better and better. Fresh from their Silent Hill 2 remake success, it’s a new IP that combines elements of sci-fi and survival horror with an Eastern European flavor. The new gameplay showcase is dark, creepy, and brutal as the protagonist investigates an area called Sector A-0. It looks like reality itself can be either manipulated, or is being manipulated, and is unstable or coming apart. There is some cryptic dialog as the main character explores the area, and it ends in an explosion of gunfire with some hellish-looking monsters. Fallen enemies need to be burned or they can merge with other monsters and become something you might not be able to deal with.

There are time-traveling elements in the story as you look for time rifts that will translate you to Poland in the 1980s after a cataclysm called The Change. Your mission as a Traveler is to find important people in the past and bring their essences with you into the future. Doing so makes you stronger, but also haunts your suit and affects your sanity.

Cronos: The New Dawn releases for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC in Fall of 2025. Check out the gameplay showcase below:

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.

[Steam]