Cronos: The New Dawn Gets First Extended Gameplay Trailer

[GFreeman]

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.

Watch the New Gameplay Trailer
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.

Cronos: The New Dawn is set for release in Fall 2025 on Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 5, and PC via Steam and Epic. Wishlist now on Steam, Epic, Microsoft Store, and PlayStation to receive updates on this one-of-a-kind survival horror experience. Stay tuned for more horrors to follow soon.

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[OneMoreTurn]

Generic.

 

[Space Lynx]

I think it looks good, I will probably end up getting this someday

 

[W4llBangdMyself]

Looks interesting. Unfortunately 3rd person = no buy.

 

[SN2716057]

Looks interesting. Unfortunately 3rd person = no buy.

While I agree that 3rd person is annoying af, especially if too far of center, you do miss out on some great games, like the witcher series, mad max, etc.

 

[Space Lynx]

I prefer third person, so to each their own.

 

[ZoneDymo]

Its just another game, I dont see an ounce of creativity in this, this might as well be AI generated

 

[Shihab]

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.

Don't mean to join the bashing club (might be interested in it), but c'mon! "Merge?" Might as well have a sunglass wearing antagonist and have us run around a mansion chasing novel keys and death masks...

 

[PLAfiller]

I prefer third person, so to each their own.

+1 I am definitely a sucker for 3rd person. If Cyberpunk was, I'd have given it a go

 

[cinemaware]

Generic.

There are some good moments, especially area design (I grew up in this kind of environs...I mean the old Eastern Europe, not alien hell but I agree the gameplay looks boring. Sale material.

 

[Event Horizon]

3rd person, slow-paced and atmospheric, with time travel, based on the Polish studio's home town? Count me interested because that sounds very cool. Reminds me of both Dead Space and Silent Hill, and looks way better than The Callisto Protocol.

 

[Space Lynx]

+1 I am definitely a sucker for 3rd person. If Cyberpunk was, I'd have given it a go

Cyberpunk 2077 has a really high quality 3rd person mod, in fact it was just updated recently and is very highly rated. Might be worth looking in to.

 

[Sithaer]

While I agree that 3rd person is annoying af, especially if too far of center, you do miss out on some great games, like the witcher series, mad max, etc.

Personally I don't even care about what person a game is anymore like I can play just about any and not be bothered as long as the implementation is fine and it suits the game's design and mechanics.

 

[Why_Me]

Looks interesting. Unfortunately 3rd person = no buy.

This ^^