What if the world ended in the 80s? Bloober Team is looking to answer that question. Offering a sneak peek into their latest project, Cronos: The New Dawn, the team behind the 2024 Silent Hill 2 Remake just released a new trailer and dev diary. Premiering at the Future Games Show during GDC 2025, Bloober Team showed off their latest entry into the survival horror genre. Cronos puts you in the shoes of a traveler, divers sent to the ruins of civilization to search for time rifts and jump back in time to save people from the apocalypse. Let’s take a look at the dev diary and see what Bloober Team has in store for us with their next survival horror game.
The dev diary features co-directors Wojciech Piejko and Jacek Zięba talking about their main sources of inspiration for Cronos: The New Dawn, as well as answering questions like who is the traveler and explaining the world of Cronos. The inspirations have me intrigued citing John Carpenter movies, the TV series Dark, Dead Space, and 12 Monkeys. The Dev Diary acts more like a short interview, with the runtime of the video only being 4 minutes and 49 seconds long. However, like most dev diaries, this gives you some insight into the process of creation and gives you an idea of what the developers were thinking when they came up with the concept and what their inspirations are for execution. It also gives us a good insight into what we’ll be working with when we eventually get our hands on the game. Jacek Zieba on the world of Cronos says:
The world of Cronos is like alternative history when the world ends in the 80s by the apocalyptic events we call the change. We push action more to the future, when you play as the traveler, when you try to find in the destroyed world, reminants of the people, but more important, the time rifts to the pants.
Wojciech Piejko had this to say about the enemies we’ll be up against in Cronos:
We are calling them the orphans, because they are what was left from humanity. The orphans can take different forms so you can encounter different enemies with different skill sets, different abilities.
Will Cronos Be A New Dawn For Bloober Team?
Bloober Team spent the latter half of the 2010s struggling to connect with audiences. With a strong focus on horror, releases like Layers of Fear, Observer, and Blair Witch all ranging from very positive to mostly positive on Steam, struggling to gain any sort of critical acclaim. After they released The Medium to similar response, it was a surprise to see Konami gamble with Bloober Team to remake one of the best entries in one of their most beloved franchises. Bloober Team pulled it off as Silent Hill 2 sits at recently Very Positive on Steam with a Overwhelmingly Positive all-review score with 94% of critics recommending the game on OpenCritic. Our own James Carr gave it a 4/5 in his review. Does Cronos: The New Dawn signal a new path for Bloober Team?
Though there’s a planned release date for 2025 on their steam page and at the end of the dev diary there’s no confirmed release date yet. However, storefront pages exist so we have some confirmed release platforms. Cronos: The New Dawn will be releasing on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC via Steam and Epic Games Store.
