Chronos: The New Dawn (2025)

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Entwickler: Bloober Team
Publisher: Bloober Team
System: PC, PS5 & Xbox Series
Release: 2025

Survive the nightmare of the future to save what remains of 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 acting as an agent for the enigmatic Collective, tasked with scouring the wastelands of the future in search of specific time rifts that will transport you back to 1980s-era Poland.

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Schauen geil aus die Screenshots.

 

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läuft bei Bloober Team

 

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die Bilder sehen gut aus mal schauen was daraus wird.

 

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Die Stimmung hat was von Returnal...

 

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The team previously stated it considers 2016's Layers of Fear the studio's rebirth, when it pivoted from aimlessly making immensely panned games like Basement Crawl to instead focusing on horror games, even if they weren't yet the kind of horror games some players, and even some developers, were satisfied with. Layers of Fear put Bloober Team on the map, but people inside the studio understood that wasn't its final form. Silent Hill 2 Remake is seen as the start of "Bloober Team 3.0," as the best-reviewed game in the company's history. Now, the team is hoping Cronos can demonstrate a more homegrown shift into a proud new era for the studio, backed by the optimistic reception to the unveiling of Cronos: The New Dawn.

When Cronos was revealed, "we all felt relief," Piejko revealed. "All the comments were like, 'Yeah, this looks great. I love the design of the character.'" To him and others, it was uplifting to see how the perception of the studio is already noticeably changing. Despite all the pressure of Silent Hill 2 Remake, there's arguably still plenty bearing down on the team as it seeks to prove it can conjure magic entirely of its own, but the directors told me this genre is where they want to be, and they're willing to prove they have what it takes.

"We want to be a horror company," Zieba told me. "We want to find our niche, and we think we found our niche, so now we just--let's evolve with it. [...] And how that happens is more complex, but it also happens organically in a way, like with [2016's] Layers of Fear, people in the studio were like, 'Okay, we made some shitty games before, but we [can] evolve."

 

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Learn more about the post-apocalyptic world of our upcoming sci-fi survival horror game - Cronos: The New Dawn in our first Dev Diary. Listen to game directors Jacek Zięba and Wojciech Piejko as they share their insights about the game’s protagonist and its worldbuilding. To spice things up, we’ve even had our devs answer community questions and share never-before-seen snippets of gameplay! Wishlist Cronos: The New Dawn!