Following their high-profile work on Silent Hill 2 Remake, developer Bloober Team has officially pulled back the veil on their newest nightmare: Cronos: The New Dawn. Debuting during the Xbox Games Showcase, a new gameplay trailer revealed the horror-heavy survival mechanics and grotesque creature design that define the game, along with confirmation that it’s launching in Fall 2025 on Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5, and PC via Steam and Epic.
Welcome to Nowa Huta — Across Time, and Beyond Reason
Cronos: The New Dawn is set across two hauntingly different time periods: a crumbling, apocalypse-ridden future and 1980s Poland, specifically the real-world district of Nowa Huta, whose oppressive Brutalist architecture serves as a perfect canvas for reality-warping horror.
Players step into the role of a Traveler, a futuristic agent sent back in time by a force called the Collective. Your mission? Save doomed individuals from the past before they’re consumed by the collapse of reality itself. But the job comes with a terrifying twist—encounters with Orphans, the game’s horrifyingly aggressive and deeply disturbing enemies.
“Don’t Let Them Merge” – The Nightmare Evolves
The new gameplay trailer highlights the core survival mechanic: burn your enemies after they fall, or face the consequences. If you don’t, the Orphans—already relentless on their own—can merge with nearby corpses, evolving into even faster and more powerful versions of themselves. It’s a twisted system that turns even a small mistake into a life-or-death escalation.
The trailer also teases the fate of a mysterious prior Traveler, ND 3500, and offers a glimpse at journal entries and anomalies that hint at deeper lore surrounding the Collective and the origins of the Orphans.
A New Dawn of Horror Awaits
With environmental storytelling rooted in Polish culture, terrifying creature design, and a strong emphasis on survival tactics and time-travel horror, Cronos: The New Dawn is shaping up to be one of the most ambitious projects from Bloober Team yet. It’s not just about fear—it’s about control, and what happens when that control starts to slip.
Cronos: The New Dawn launches in Fall 2025. Players can wishlist now on Steam, Epic Games Store, Xbox, and PlayStation.
