KRAKOW, Poland – July 23, 2025 – 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 tantalising 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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About Bloober Team:
Founded in 2008, the Kraków-based studio Bloober Team specialises in creating deep and immersive horror games. With a team of over 250 creative specialists, the studio continuously pushes the boundaries of storytelling, delivering rich and complex narratives to players worldwide.
The studio’s award-winning portfolio includes titles such as the Layers of Fear series, Blair Witch, Observer: System Redux, and The Medium. Bloober Team’s most recent project, developed in collaboration with Japanese publisher KONAMI, was the highly anticipated remake of the iconic horror game SILENT HILL 2. The game has received widespread acclaim, earning positive reviews and numerous nominations and awards, including Game of the Year at the Horror Game Awards and Best Game of 2024 by IGN Japan.
In October 2024, the studio announced its newest title – Cronos: The New Dawn – a sci-fi survival horror set to launch in 2025.
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