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Cronos: The New Dawn seems to smush Dead Space and Control together (in a good way)

Published on: 2025-04-25 06:26:11

Bloober Team has provided a first proper look at gameplay for its latest project, Cronos: The New Dawn , after a brief tease at the end of the initial reveal in October. The trailer has a very Dead Space-like feel, which shouldn't be too surprising given that this is a third-person survival horror game, but that's hardly a bad thing. There appear to be some other influences at play here, and there's one particular feature that seems quite terrifying. The game takes place across two time periods, a decayed post-apocalyptic future and 1980s-era Poland. As a Traveller, you're sent back in time to rescue certain people before they die in an apocalypse. To do that, you'll need to battle creatures known as Orphans, which Bloober describes as "twisted, body-horror monstrosities born from humanity’s darkest nightmares." But you'll need to be sure to burn the bodies of fallen monsters. If you don't, that can spell a whole heap of trouble. Living Orphans can absorb the bodies of their fallen i ... Read full article.