Cronos: The New Dawn

Cronos: The New Dawn

Released Sep 2025

A whole new breed of survival horror emerges with Cronos: The New Dawn. Survive the brutal wastelands of the future, fight nightmarish merging creatures and jump back in time to harvest souls as you seek to uncover the origins of the apocalypse that wiped out humanity.

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Evaluation

Cronos: The New Dawn launched on September 5, 2025. Bloober Team has been consistently active since release: hotfixes landed in the days and weeks after launch, a free Temporal Diver difficulty mode with a cosmetic skin shipped on February 13, 2026, and the game was brought to Mac natively on April 28, 2026. Most importantly, on June 6, 2026, Bloober Team formally announced a story expansion called "Lazarus," developed together with Pixel Ant Games. The DLC follows the Pathfinder's transformation into the Warden and introduces new traversal abilities, combat mechanics, and a new narrative involving a relentless Tracker. No release date has been announced for Lazarus. The only paid DLC currently on the store — a Deluxe Edition Upgrade — shipped at launch on September 6, 2025 and represents content already delivered.
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Bloober Team and Pixel Ant Games announced 'Lazarus', a story expansion to Cronos: The New Dawn, featuring the Pathfinder's transformation into the Warden, new traversal and combat abilities, and a new narrative arc. No release date given.
news post · Jun 6, 2026 source content planned
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Game launched on September 5, 2025 on PC and consoles.
news post · Sep 5, 2025 source content shipped
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Content

1 of 2 released · 1 planned

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Details

Developer
Publisher
Bloober Team SA
Achievements
47
Platform
Windows, macOS, Linux
Controller
full support
Steam Deck
Verified
Players
Single-player

About this game

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Last evaluated Aug 14, 2026
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