Cronos: The New Dawn is Bloober Team’s first original IP in the survival horror genre, marking a significant step forward for the Polish studios’ evolution as the masters of horror, known most recently for the acclaimed Silent Hill 2 remake.

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.

Bloober Team has released the first extended gameplay video for its highly anticipated sci-fi horror title, Cronos: The New Dawn. This eerie 10-minute showcase offers a gripping deep dive into the game’s intense combat, terrifying enemies, and survival mechanics while introducing two of the game’s hauntingly distinct environments: Islands in The Mist and The Hospital.

In Islands in The Mist, players navigate a mysterious liminal space where visibility is limited, tension is high, and danger lurks in every fog-drenched corner. Meanwhile, The Hospital delivers a claustrophobic descent into madness, where sterile corridors twist into nightmarish labyrinths, echoing with the remnants of a forgotten past.

Don’t Let Them Merge

In this latest reveal, players can get a closer look at the much-anticipated “Merge” mechanic in action. In Cronos: The New Dawn, fallen enemies, known as The Orphans, don’t stay dead for long! If players fail to burn their bodies, these fallen monsters can be absorbed by nearby Orphans. Through a grotesque process known as Merging, enemies transform into faster, stronger, and more horrifying abominations, gaining new abilities and becoming even more formidable in combat, creating terrifying new nightmares for The Traveler to overcome.

A Traveler Through Time

Players follow The Traveler in action, an agent of the mysterious Collective who emerges from a dystopian future to journey back through time. Their mission: to extract individuals before they perish in the apocalypse.

Guided by the cryptic travel log of a mysterious predecessor, Traveler ND 3500, players will explore unsettling post-apocalyptic environments inspired by real-world locations, including the Kraków district of Nowa Huta. Here, decaying Brutalist architecture is warped by reality-bending anomalies.

The video also gives players a closer look at the game’s unique approach to time travel, as The Traveler navigates two time periods – the decaying future and 1980s Poland – thrusting players into the decaying district of New Dawn, inspired by real-life Nowa Huta, where survival means bending time itself.

While exploring a world on the edge of annihilation, players will encounter the grotesque and nightmarish enemies known as The Orphans… twisted remnants of a world undone.

Face the Terror

In addition, the extended gameplay video offers players a chilling glimpse of one of the game’s formidable bosses, the ominous entity known only as Terror. This encounter sets the tone for the psychological and physical horrors that await.

Promising a deeply atmospheric experience, blending psychological horror with innovative mechanics and a rich, time-twisting narrative, Cronos: The New Dawn’s newly released footage offers a tantalizing taste of what’s to come..

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.

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.

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. During battle, quick decisions can mean the difference between life and death.

Cronos: The New Dawn is coming to PC (Steam), PS5, and Xbox Series X|S in Fall 2025.