Summary
- Cronos: The New Dawn may offer challenging combat and time-traveling gameplay.
- Bloober Team's upcoming title is drawing comparisons to Dead Space and Silent Hill.
- Fans eagerly await official details on the promising survival horror game.
Developer Bloober Team's upcoming time-traveling sci-fi horror game Cronos: The New Dawn has already caught the attention of audiences everywhere, and leaked details from an alleged insider have sparked even more enthusiasm for the promising title. Bloober Team has been praised for its incredibly well-reviewed remake of Silent Hill 2, and many are hoping that the success of that survival horror game will be a sign of things to come with Cronos: The New Dawn.
Following the release of the first trailer for Cronos: The New Dawn, many immediately began drawing comparisons to Bloober Team's recent Silent Hill 2 remake, as well as other iconic survival horror games like Dead Space. As many are continuing to explore the terrors of Silent Hill, rumors of inside details about Cronos: The New Dawn are sparking exciting conversation among fans.
Cronos: The New Dawn Looks Like Bloober Team’s Answer to Dead Space
Based on the details of its reveal, Bloober Team's next project, Cronos: The New Dawn, seems like the studio's take on a Dead Space-like experience.
In a Twitter post from alleged insider ignusthewise, Cronos: The New Dawn is described as having "quite challenging" combat and exploration paired with its time-traveling gameplay. The official description for Cronos: The New Dawn states that players will travel to the past to seek out and extract Essence from key survivors that will be brought to the future in the hope of saving humanity. According to the rumor post, the core gameplay loop will see players finding time anomalies in the future that allow the protagonist to travel to the past and find these Essences across 17 main locations. With early comparisons to games like Dead Space, it would not be surprising if the alleged challenging gameplay in this survival horror title turns out to be true, but fans should await official details from Bloober Team before making any assumptions.
Cronos: The New Dawn Could Be Bloober Team's Dead Space
Rumors aside, the cinematic trailer for Cronos: The New Dawn has already showcased an incredibly intriguing sci-fi survival horror experience that could be Bloober Team's answer to Dead Space. From the otherworldly atmosphere to grotesque enemies, Cronos: The New Dawn could fill the demand for more terrifying experiences with futuristic gadgets and brutal gameplay. Audiences have voiced their support for the recent success of Bloober Team, and if the studio can deliver an experience similar to its Silent Hill 2 remake while rivaling Dead Space, then Cronos: The New Dawn may have the chance to solidify a legacy for itself in the survival horror genre.
As Bloober Team continues to build momentum off the heels of the Silent Hill 2 remake and building mystery around its Nintendo horror game Project M, both rumors and official details on Cronos: The New Dawn are likely to build excitement for the studio's next big launch. Interested fans will want to stay tuned for more updates on Cronos: The New Dawn ahead of its scheduled release for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S in 2025.
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
