Cronos: The New Dawn
Cronos: The New Dawn is Bloober Team’s new survival horror original IP, arriving with a synchronized global launch on September 5, 2025, for PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch 2, and macOS. You play as the Traveler, an elite agent working for an enigmatic Collective. Using time rifts, you jump between a ravaged future and 1980s Poland, hunting souls to prevent apocalyptic fusion horrors. The Soviet-inspired setting blends brutalist architecture with retro-futuristic tech. Gameplay forces you to plan: you burn corpses to stop enemies fusing, manage scarce ammo, and solve environmental puzzles with a temporal-manipulating gun. The story dives into memory, identity, and the moral cost of survival.
So far, no cracks have appeared on trackers—looks like the protections are holding strong.

Standard Edition — what’s included
Just the core game—no Deluxe version or extras.
Review
Cronos doesn’t sidestep its roots. It wears them proudly—Dead Space, Resident Evil, Alien, The Thing—but it also pushes them. Walking those corridors in Nowa Huta’s ruins—you feel the weight, not just from the architecture, but from choices. Burn that corpse or risk tougher enemies. Rescue that soul or sacrifice someone’s memory. The time travel isn’t window dressing—it layers the dirt with nostalgia and regret.
Combat leans brutal, not flashy. Guns have heft. Ammo’s scarce. There’s urgency in every trigger pull. Exploration unravels in jagged pieces—diaries, flickering lights, empty rooms—all whispering story without lecturing.
Still, real tension falters when scarcity becomes frustration. Auto-saves and relentless resource crunches sometimes trap you in no-win loops. The narrative opens slowly, and corners of the world stay hard to parse until much later.
But atmosphere? It grips hard. Your silhouette under a red light in a crumbling factory—that stays with you. For horror fans who don’t need everything new, but crave weight and texture, this is worth the plunge.
Verdict: A morally sharp, atmospheric horror that doesn’t reinvent the wheel—but gleams it ruthlessly.
PC System Requirements
| Component | Minimum | Recommended |
|---|---|---|
| OS | Windows 10 64-bit | Windows 10 64-bit |
| CPU | Intel Core i5-8400F / i5-8600K • AMD Ryzen 5 3600 | Intel Core i7-10700K • AMD Ryzen 5 3600X |
| Memory | 16 GB RAM | 16 GB RAM |
| Graphics | NVIDIA GTX 1080 • AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT • Intel Arc A770 | NVIDIA RTX 3080 • AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT • Intel Arc B580 |
| Storage | 50 GB available | 50 GB available |
Languages
| Interface | Full Audio | Subtitles | |
|---|---|---|---|
| English | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| French | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Italian | ✔ | ✔ | |
| German | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Spanish – Spain | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Japanese | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Korean | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Polish | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Portuguese – Brazil | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Russian | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Simplified Chinese | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Spanish – Latin America | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Traditional Chinese | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Turkish | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Ukrainian | ✔ | ✔ |




