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Cronos: The New Dawnwill launch in fall 2025, Blooober Team has announced. The project’s release window was revealed via an Xbox Games Showcase 2025 trailer, which also included some brand-newCronos: The New Dawngameplay footage.
The latest title from theSilent Hill 2remake developer is a third-person survival horror experience with a retro-futuristic setting and an eerie story involving time travel and the end of human civilization.Bloober Team first announcedCronos: The New Dawnin October 2024, committing to launching the game sometime in 2025.
The Polish developer has now narrowed down that release window to fall 2025. Taking to theJune 2025 Xbox Games Showcase, Bloober Team premiered anotherCronos: The New Dawntrailer, subtitled “Survive the Nest.” The promo video offers more than a minute’s worth of new gameplay footage, during which the protagonist—simply called the Traveler—investigates a nest of Orphans, monstrosities that manifested following an apocalyptic event known as The Change.
Cronos: The New Dawn’s Enemies Need to be Burned ASAP
The new trailer highlights the game’s merging mechanics, which allow Orphans to absorb their allies that have fallen in combat, turning into even bigger and faster threats. While the system makes defeated Orphans potentially even more dangerous than those still active, this interaction can be prevented by burning their corpses. As a result,Cronos: The New Dawn’s monstersmust be burned as soon as they fall.
The Orphans themselves are described as monstrosities born out of “humanity’s darkest nightmares.” Those horrors largely date back toCronos: The New Dawn’s version of the ’80s, when the mysterious Change took place, eradicating most of humanity. The Traveler is tasked with going back in time in order to save those who didn’t survive the apocalypse. They are not the first to attempt this perilous journey, with the new trailer highlighting as much by showing glimpses of another Traveler, referred to as the Predecessor.
Cronos: The New Dawnwill release day-one on the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC. No pricing details have yet been shared by Bloober Team, with its upcoming title still not being available for pre-order. Between its action-driven gameplay and setting,Cronos: The New Dawnmay appeal to fans ofDead Spaceand the body horror genre. While the game won’t be available on previous-generation consoles, its PC hardware requirements are relatively modest for 2025. The minimum setup includes an Intel Core i5-8600K or AMD Ryzen 5 3600, a GeForce GTX 1080 or Radeon RX 5700 XT, and 16GB of RAM.
