Summary
- Bloober Team has revealed its new horror game, Cronos: The New Dawn.
- The game will feature a blend of survival and psychological horror, taking inspiration from Resident Evil and Dead Space.
- Cronos: The New Dawn will release in 2025 for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S.
Bloober Team, the studio behind the 2024 remake of Silent Hill 2, has unveiled its newest horror project, Cronos: The New Dawn. Following the success of Bloober Team’s latest release, Cronos: The New Dawn promises a chilling blend of survival and psychological horror by taking inspiration from iconic titles like Resident Evil and Dead Space.
Bloober Team is a Polish studio best known for its horror games, such as the Layers of Fear series or the recently released Silent Hill 2 remake. This new version of Konami’s horror classic was a commercial success, topping sales charts in multiple regions and earning various nominations in The Game Awards 2024. Bloober Team revealed its upcoming time-traveling horror game Cronos: The New Dawn just nine days after the launch of Silent Hill 2 remake, teasing players with a 2025 release window on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S.
Cronos: The New Dawn is Unlikely to Beat the Dead Space Comparisons, But it May Not Need To
Cronos: The New Dawn is Bloober Team's next project, and though it's already being compared to Dead Space, that's not necessarily a bad thing.
Cronos: The New Dawn is a third-person survival horror game set in a near-future dystopia, and a recent MP1st interview with the game's director, Wojciech Piejk, shed light on what players can expect from this new horror project. According to the interview, Cronos: The New Dawn will feature combat mechanics similar to Resident Evil and Dead Space’s limb dismemberment. It will also add new mechanics to “spice” things up, like when players need to shine their flashlight on enemies in Alan Wake 2. While the game director hasn’t revealed any specific gameplay elements, he mentioned that Cronos: The New Dawn will have a strong emphasis on story and atmospheric exploration. Players have already begun comparing Cronos: The New Dawn to Dead Space, but will have to wait a few more months to see how similar the games turn out to be.
Cronos: The New Dawn Will Blend Survival and Psychological Horror
While details about Cronos: The New Dawn remain sparse, leaks and rumors have started to spread online regarding its combat system and unique gameplay. According to some Cronos: The New Dawn leaks, players will need to travel to the past to find anomalies across 17 different locations. The combat is reportedly “quite challenging,” without any additional information available at the time of writing.
As Cronos: The New Dawn is slated for release in 2025, horror enthusiasts looking for a fright can explore some of the scariest horror games of all time as they wait for Bloober Team's newest creation. Titles like Outlast, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, and The Evil Within offer spine-tingling experiences that should keep horror fans busy until Cronos: The New Dawn arrives sometime next year.
Cronos: The New Dawn
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OpenCritic Reviews
- Top Critic Avg: 78 /100 Critics Rec: 77%
- Released
- September 5, 2025
- ESRB
- Mature 17+ / Intense Violence, Blood and Gore, Strong Language
- Developer(s)
- Bloober Team
- Publisher(s)
- Bloober Team
WHERE TO PLAY
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.
- Engine
- Unreal Engine 5
- Platform(s)
- PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch 2, PC
- Genre(s)
- Survival Horror, Science Fiction, Action
