Bloober Team has released an extended gameplay video for their sci-fi horror title, Cronos: The New Dawn.
View a description of the video’s content, via Bloober Team:
This chilling 10-minute presentation offers an immersive deep dive into the game’s intense combat, terrifying enemies, and survival mechanics while showcasing two distinct environments from the narrative: Islands in the Mist and The Hospital.
In Islands in the Mist, players navigate a mysterious liminal space where visibility is limited, tension runs high, and danger lurks around every fog-shrouded corner. Meanwhile, The Hospital offers a claustrophobic descent into madness, where sterile hallways morph into nightmarish labyrinths echoing with remnants of a forgotten past.
Don’t Let Them Merge
This new video showcases the long-awaited “Fusion” mechanics in action and in detail. 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 may be absorbed by nearby Orphans. Through a grotesque process called Fusion, 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 Time Traveler
Players follow the Traveler in action, an agent of the mysterious Collective who emerges from a dystopian future to journey back through time. Her mission: rescue individuals before they perish in the apocalypse.
Guided by the enigmatic voyage log of a mysterious predecessor – Traveler ND 3500 – players will explore unsettling post-apocalyptic environments inspired by real-world locations including Krakow’s Nowa Huta district. Here, decaying brutalist architecture is warped by reality-deforming anomalies.
The video also offers players deeper insight into the game’s unique approach to time travel, as the Traveler navigates two time periods – the decaying future and 1980s Poland – taking players to the decrepit New Dawn district, inspired by real-life Nowa Huta, where survival means bending time itself.
While exploring a world on the brink of annihilation, players will encounter the grotesque and terrifying enemies known as The Orphans – twisted remnants of an unraveled world.
Face the Terror
Additionally, the extended gameplay video gives players a blood-chilling glimpse of one of the game’s formidable bosses, the sinister entity known only as Terror. This encounter sets the stage for the psychological and physical horrors that await.
Promising a deeply atmospheric experience blending psychological horror with innovative mechanics and a rich, winding narrative, the newly unveiled footage of Cronos: The New Dawn offers a tantalizing taste of what’s to come when the game launches.
Cronos: The New Dawn launches this fall for PS5, Xbox Series, and PC via Steam.
