The release date for Cronos: The New Dawn is in place, and it is time to gear up for when we can actually play Cronos: The New Dawn
If you thought it was going to be a long time before you could sit down in the horror world of Cronos: The New Dawn, well, you will have to think again and plan a little better. As it turns out, Bloober Team is close to wrapping on the game, and now we have a release date for it all much sooner than I would have thought. In fact, we are only a month out from it as of this writing, with Cronos: The New Dawn getting a release date of September 5th for the PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Switch 2, and PC. Yes, it is also announced now that the game will be hitting the Switch 2 for those who need a solid dose of horror on the portable console. Even if this one might be a little dark for sitting on a plane or traveling around in general.
Now that we have all of the technicals and how to buy Cronos: The New Dawn, let us dig into so much more of the gameplay than we could have expected for the game. Enough that if you are on a lunch break, this will fill up all of your time while also giving you a solid look and feel for how the game is going to handle. Much like many of the other third-person action horror games we have had in the past. Just blending the shooting and stomping from Dead Space in with the need to dispose of the fallen enemies as in Resident Evil. Along with the same level progression and puzzles both of those titles have offered up, but with the twist that is fitting for Cronos: The New Dawn. All so we can mess around with more of the timelines out there and some of the anomalies to help us get around and find the time rifts scattered in this broken world. Have a look at all of it, and it is mostly a tease, just before we can play it in about a month from now. I am excited for it all.
Cronos: The New Dawn — Release Date
Watch the Official Release Date Trailer for Cronos: The New Dawn and get to know some of the characters the Traveler will be encountering within the twisted time-travel story.
The game will arrive on September 5 on PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch 2!
Cronos: The New Dawn — 35-Minute Gameplay
Bloober Team has released the first extended gameplay video for its highly anticipated sci-fi horror title, Cronos: The New Dawn. This eerie 35-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 when the game launches this Fall.
Did you plan on Cronos: The New Dawn coming out way later than September, or is that the perfect time to make sure we have all of the video for the October seasons? Will there be truly different gameplay elements to build on what we have here, or will it just be trying to blend those titles mentioned while offering up a different story? Will it be worth the time and effort to destroy all of the fallen creatures in the game, or will it be worth setting things on fire once they start the merging process? Take your time and head on down to the comment section to get the discussion flowing. We have a lot more for Cronos: The New Dawn on the way, so please keep on checking in for all of that and everything else that we can muster up for you to enjoy. I know you will be glad that you did, as well as making sure you are fully ready for the darkness this IP is going to add to our universe.