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Cronos: The New Dawn
Developer Bloober Team
Cronos: The New Dawn is a 2025 survival horror video game developed and published by Bloober Team. The game was released for Linux, Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, Windows, and Xbox Series X/S on 5 September 2025, to generally positive reviews from critics. By 26 November 2025, it had sold 500,000 units. From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
362 reactions from 2 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky) · newest Oct 7, 2026 · last updated Oct 7, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
85
LovedLoved
225 positive · 39 negative
95% range 80–89%
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| Steam reviews | 225 | 39 | 0 |
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* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
98 newer reactions are still waiting for a label.
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
10,594 of 12,047 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
Summary pending — the reactions are listed below.
Reactions
60 of 362 · most liked firstIdk what's going on with the PR strategy for this game but I have talked to multiple games press people who have never heard of it and it's QUITE GOOD!! Way more of a crowd pleaser than something like Cronos and yet is getting 1/100th the promotion. And it's less than $20?????
unlabelledView post →---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☑ Beautiful ☐ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☑ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☐ Decent ☑ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Every Bullet Matters Cronos doesn't do anything revolutionary or particularly new. You can clearly see Dead Space, Resident Evil and Silent Hill in its DNA. But somehow it still feels different enough to stand on its own. Gameplay The best part of the game is easily its gameplay loop. This might be the only action survival horror game where I actually had to think before every fight. Every bullet matters, every healing item matters, and using the environment is often the smartest way to deal…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really wanted to like this game as a new survival horror IP on the block, but it irritated me more often than not. The setting and story are *aggressively* generic, with bog-standard science-fiction proper nouns everywhere. The Traveler. The Awakening. The Essence. The Terminal. The Orphans. The Talos Protocol. The Lazarus Protocol. The Collective. The Warden. The Pathfinder. It goes on and on, and it never amounts to anything very compelling. Without going into spoilers, the game's setting…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Man, just beyond frustrating not knowing what's going on with YouTube. A Fully Ramblomatic on embargo drop day for an upcoming game like Cronos should be doing 500-700+ views a minute in the first hour... couldn't even crack 300+. Just a shocking sudden drop in the last month from YouTube.
unlabelledView post →what very cool and unique puzzles await you in the video game Cronos: The New Dawn
unlabelledView post →Yo! Summer is coming to an end and Good Games Fall Season (tm) is right infront of us. Including Silksong, Consume Me, Shuten Order, Cronos the new Dawn, Ratatan, Wander Stars and more! For September 2025 there are 97 notable game releases on 5 pages: [1/2]
unlabelledView post →A comm I did for @travis-luxauria.bsky.social! Travis has found a new playmate! Before long, he realizes that this friend’s favorite game is filling others with his delicious, pleasantly thick slime... Cronos really enjoys doing that!
unlabelledView post →Strongly Recommended. Good Story. Post-apocalyptic Time-travel Survival-Horror. For fans of Dead Space and Resident Evil. Such is our calling.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Bloober's Silent Hill 2 team has begun pre-production on their next unannounced title, says game director Wojciech Piejko. The studio's second team is currently working on their original horror IP - Cronos: The New Dawn, ➡️ mp1st.com/news/bloober...
unlabelledView post →shocked to say this but Bloober Team sent me an early copy of their new horror game Cronos: The New Dawn so... DOING AN UNEXPECTED STREAM PLAYING IT IN AN HOUR YAY!!
unlabelledView post →Cronos really makes me want an M rated Metroid survival horror game like the modern RE games If Team Ninja got to make a weird standalone Metroid, they should let Capcom or Bloober or someone make one that plays like Cronos/Dead Space!
unlabelledView post →I played the first two hours of Cronos: The New Dawn and it absolutely rips. Cannot wait for the full game youtu.be/Goq3IBL5TXY?...
unlabelledView post →Why do game devs keep making horrible Linux Ports?. I'm asking because I just bought Cronos: The New Dawn on Steam because it has a native Linux port. To be fair, I would have bought it at some point anyway but I got excited when I saw it had a Linux port. The game is missing features that the Windows version has, It runs horribly at any setting other than very low. I think they only bothered testing for the SteamDeck. But if that's the case, why does it support FSR 4.0? To be fair, the Windows…
unlabelledView post →"Such is our calling.” Cronos: The New Dawn (2025) represents a third-person action-horror game, developed by the company Bloober Team and published by the company Bloober Team SA. Both organizations are based in Poland. Pros & cons: ++ Upon your arrival in the socialists’ wet dream of New Dawn, you will experience the oppressive atmosphere of a decaying city within a time field as you try to find your own meaning in this beautifully desolate world. + Fight your way through hordes of…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I feel like I'm being gaslit by all the people positively reviewing this game. There's like a generation of gamers that think frustratingly difficult game = good. Cronos is not good. Great art direction. Great sound. Pretty graphics. The story became an incredibly obvious allegory for communism less than 2 hours in. A bunch of RED people who merge together and every other note you find in the game is complaining about "commies!". The combat is where this game REALLY falls apart. You need 3…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I received Cronos as a gift on day one and initially thought it would be a mediocre game I'd never finish. It turned out to be something very special. I haven't written a review in over a year, now i have the time.... Cronos was the first game that came to mind. I'm blown away by how serious, mature, and dark it is. from voice acting, visuals, characters, and story. The whole theme is beautifully blended, delivering one of the best sci-fi horror experience. As a sci-fi lover, this game got me…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Cronos: The New Dawn is an impressive Dead Space-like survival horror game from Bloober. Its UE5 powered presentation impresses - but what about my nemesis #StutterStruggle? How does the PC version hold up? Why do optimised settings increase performance by 100+%? That and more! youtu.be/xC8BjDoX-xM
unlabelledView post →The game exceeded expectations on so many levels from its solid gameplay mechanics to its terrifyingly dark artistic direction, plus the haunting sound design... it's simply a love letter to dystopia fans, wrapped in a Dead Space-style experience. a solid 9/10. Highly recommend picking it up
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Cronos: The New Dawn is a simply sensational game... albeit with some UE5 issues reminiscent of Silent Hill 2. Alex has the DF review here, along with optimised settings that can literally double performance vs maxed. youtu.be/xC8BjDoX-xM
unlabelledView post →Cronos: The New Dawn Steam has long needed to make its review system more diverse, because the difference between a positive review for Chronos and pure enthusiasm for Silent Hill 2 is massive. In fact, it’s not enough anymore for Steam to just add a “mixed” or “yellow” review type; what’s really needed is a 5, 10, or even 100-point rating scale. It’s a shame they’re not in a hurry to implement something like that. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3594742848 Chronos is a…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →My next game: Cronos The New Dawn. 🩸👨🏻🚀👽
unlabelledView post →I hated this experience. Ultimately it's Dead Space but with the same enemy count, 20% of the resources and inventory space, and constantly sends you back to the safe room stash to jostle your inventory around. Here are some highlights: In a game of scarce resources: introducing an enemy that actively dodges if it senses the crosshairs on it is diabolical. 25% of my play time was dedicated to running back to the safe room for free flame rounds. Flame round upgrade should have…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Cronos: The New Dawn | Temporal Diver Mode Announced | New Game Difficulty (Easier difficulty) coming early 2026 www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2BV...
unlabelledView post →> My work is endless. > My failures are numerous. > This game is wonderful. > Let our work continue. > Such is our calling.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really like the game. It has a dark tone and an oppressive atmosphere that reminds me a lot of Dead Space. Basic resources such as bullets are truly precious because they are so scarce, which reminds me of Resident Evil, but even scarcer. You'll have a hard time deciding what to craft or buy. As the enemies can overwhelm you, it's often preferable to escape from certain situations. Be warned, there aren't many jump scares, but there are a few. The story (from what I've played so far) is…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game #12 of 2026 ✅ Cronos: The New Dawn I loved this one. Really strong third act bringing everything learned from recordings, documents and cutscenes together. Great music, atmosphere and visuals. Tough at times but not too difficult to pick up imo. Review soon!
unlabelledView post →This was a phenomenal gaming experience. The setting and atmosphere is bleak and disturbing. Gameplay is fun and reminded me of Dead Space. What makes this game special is its difficulty. It will challenge you in all the right ways. You will be forced to manage ammo and face hordes of evil creatures. Remember: every bullet counts. The progression is also fantastic. You're gradually upgrading your suit and weapons and while you are getting stronger, the game also ramps up its difficulty, so…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Cronos is a cozy game
unlabelledView post →Bloober Team’s next game is called Cronos: The New Dawn. Releases in 2025.
unlabelledView post →I'm going to preface that I did not finish this game. I really want to like this game. The atmosphere, aesthetic and setting is amazing. Being a big Dead Space fan, this game scratches that itch super hard. But for me personally and my rig, the performance ruins everything. Combat is tense, stressful, you always feel like your hanging on the ledge, and that's a good thing, but when your frames start dropping like absolute madness, and your aim starts becoming choppy and hard to control as a…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Finally wrapped Silent Hill 2 last night. Fantastic game and I’m quite excited to see what Bloober Team does with Cronos: The New Dawn now. They’ve always been excellent at atmosphere and visuals, but can they write their own story? We’ll see!
unlabelledView post →I rolled credits on Cronos: The New Dawn & I have some thoughts: +amazing use of horror assets + tense moments in the game with music & visuals +good gunplay imo +good monster designs +interesting plot +fun guns to use Overall Bloober Team cooked imo as is our calling 🔥🔥
unlabelledView post →seeing these phone booths in Cronos was so neat Love the setting of that game so much
unlabelledView post →Good morning fellow gamers. Metal gear solid 2 and Cronos are the crutch for the bug game so it's more of all that. (I swear this isn't breakfast) Have a lovely day and stay hydrated you beautiful human's. 💜
unlabelledView post →(Minor Cronos Spoilers, late game boss gameplay) THIS BOSS FIGHT IS INCREDIBLY FUN!! Might be one of my favourite survival horror bosses
unlabelledView post →An excellent survival horror game which isn't too dissimilar to Resident Evil in many ways. It has a pretty brutal inventory management system which really makes you take only what is absolutely necessary. It has some superb graphical visual quality. The mechanics in the game for traversing are unique. The story is excellent. The suspense is great. The audio with earphones is incredibly atmospheric and adds to suspense and it has plenty of jump scares. The game is well balanced and fair.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's called Cronos: The New Dawn. A third-person suvival horror game. Releases in 2025.
unlabelledView post →Join me today for more Cronos: The New Dawn! The game is so god damn weird I'm really excited to get back to it. twitch.tv/patstaresat youtube.com/patstaresat See you guys around 2pm pacific!
unlabelledView post →What a Game, really surprised that it was made by the same devs who made Silent Hill 2 Remake, this game feels like a true Dead Space successor, it nails the oppressive sci-fi horror atmosphere, mixing brutal combat with constant tension where you never feel truly safe. The enemy designs are disturbing in the best way, and the sound design does a lot of heavy lifting, making every corridor feel dangerous, while the narrative can be cryptic at times, it fits the tone perfectly and rewards who…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →What’s scarier than me actually playing rugby tomorrow? Maybe this horror game called Cronos the New Dawn Twitch.tv/scottathin
unlabelledView post →Cronos The New Dawn feels like Dead Space and time travel got mixed together in the weirdest way possible and smh it turned out to be really good You play as a Traveler jumping between a ruined future and the past trying to collect essences from people and other travelers before everything goes completely wrong These essences aren't just things you pick up either, they're basically souls chilling inside your suit or head (idk) giving you buffs talking to you and sometimes making you wonder if…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Cronos: The New Dawn on PS5 is the only version getting a full physical edition ➡️ www.psu.com/news/cronos-... Switch 2 version available as game key card, digital only on Xbox/PC (Play Anywhere title) #CronosTheNewDawn #PS5 #Xbox
unlabelledView post →I wanted to love this game. But for me the negatives overshadow the positives: As many people pointed out it's a very obvious mix of Dead Space and Resident Evil 2/4. That's fine for me. But Cronos is neither of these things, nor does it manage to come fully into it's own. For me that has to do with the general lack of a core idea of what the game and the story wants to be. There is time traveling/looping of agents of a mysterious organisation that sends individual back in time to do their…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I’ve always had a complicated relationship with Bloober Team games. Usually, I notice the quality of their form, interesting visual design, strong art direction and good presentation. But when it comes to the substance, things get more complicated. Perhaps I have the fewest complaints about Observer, but this game was released eight years ago. My expectations from “Cronos: The New Dawn” were low enough from the start, but aesthetics and potentially intriguing setting interested me. Well… The…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The strongest element is atmosphere. The ruined vision of communist-era Poland twisted by “The Change” is consistently unsettling. Bloober’s environmental artists deliver decayed apartment blocks, industrial complexes, and impossible time-fractured spaces that feel oppressive without relying exclusively on jump scares. Lighting, sound design, and environmental storytelling carry enormous weight here. Combat is more divisive. The headline mechanic — enemies merging with corpses to evolve into…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I rarely feel the compulsion to write reviews, but I just finished this game and came straight here to write one. Cronos: The New Dawn is the kind of game that makes you fall in love with games as a narrative story telling device. It lets you live in a horrifying, distorted world that is both in the past, present and future. In essence, it's a pretty standard survival horror game. Most fans of Dead Space will be relatively at home here - it's essentially the same mechanics except this is more…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →First 1/3 of this game was great, as you approach the 3/4 mark of the game you are met by the same kind of enemy again and again and again and again. What makes it worse is that they just make waves of those same enemies appear again and again. Again, the story was great for the first 1/3 but then it went in a completely different direction and ended on a low. I wouldn't pay full price for this game, if you are thinking of picking it up I would definitely wait for a sale.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Dead Space meets Evil Within during the Covid pandemic. That's pretty much this game. If you didn't like either one of those mentioned titles, you most likely will not enjoy this game. I am barely two hours in, as you can tell, and I'm not too thrilled that I invested the full $59.99 price tag. In fact, I was going to refund the game, but alas, I was 2.2hrs into the game by the time I made that choice. In my honest opinion, you're better off waiting for a 30% discount, at a minimum. What's…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've gone an entire month without buying a game (that's big for me) but Cronos: The New Dawn is calling my name.
unlabelledView post →Cronos initially seems a lot like Dead Space, and that’s clearly one of its inspirations. But the moment you actually play it, it feels a lot more like Dead Space didn’t just take inspiration from RE4, but also mixed it with the classic Resident Evil formula. It feels like a blend between RE1 and RE4 more than the ladder. The director describes the gameplay and combat as “more Resident Evil and less Silent Hill,” which fits perfectly with how I feel about this game. The entire gameplay loop is…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Cronos: The New Dawn Merge and purge Video games often wrestle with the delicate balance between spectacle and substance. This rings even more true when it comes to survival horror. Dip too much to the left and you start to move closer towards a power fantasy and too much to the right and you move away from horror towards action. Cronos: The New Dawn enters a crowded landscape with a very clear ambition: to fuse survival horror tension with the improvisational creativity of immersive sims. In…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I think people leaving negative reviews expected too much based on OTHER games. This game is challenging your first playthrough, I died 50 times. You have to decide if fighting is worth it most of the time, and it's okay to avoid conflict, nobody is gonna take away your big boy gamer pin. This isn't Resident Evil, and you have to use resources sparingly. And that's what a NG+ is for, you get a much smoother run. If you like the Evil Within, SH 2, Dead Space, you will probably like it. Such is…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Bloober Team announces third-person survival horror game Cronos: The New Dawn for PS5, Xbox Series, and PC www.gematsu.com/2024/10/bloo...
unlabelledView post →Almost forgot to mention my favorite part of Cronos - the game absolutely loves cats. Why are they the only creatures to survive a reality-warping apocalypse? What else would?
unlabelledView post →Genre - Existential Sci-Fi 3rd Person Survival Horror This is a 9/10 game for me in this genre. I didn't start getting into Survival Horrors properly until the original Deadspace and Resident Evil remakes. This does the job very well and I am actually playing through on NG+, which is not something I do with my backlog of games. The story and characters are engaging and it looks and runs great on my 6 year old PC. There are enough upgrades and pickups to make it feel like you are making…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a love letter to Silent Hill, Resident Evil, and Dead Space. I've enjoyed my time with it, and although there are issues from time to time...I can't say that the bad outweigh the good. After Dead Space Remake, I wanted to see a remake of the second one. And this game scratched that itch. And it runs well on PC handhelds too.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Cronos is a survival horror game that uses environmental storytelling to explain how Polish people got like that
unlabelledView post →Bloober's Silent Hill 2 team to start pre-production on their next unannounced title, says game Director Wojciech Piejko. currently the studio is working on new original horror IP - Cronos: The New Dawn mp1st.com/news/bloober...
unlabelledView post →+ Strong points: - A successful and oppressive retro-futuristic atmosphere - Methodical gameplay - Inventory and crafting that truly structure the experience - Good progression - Mastery of horror tropes: silence, tension, vulnerability - Outstanding sound design - Weak points: - Good ideas but often too formulaic execution - Unmemorable bosses and sometimes frustrating fights - No Polish voice acting Summary: It's no small feat to tackle the theme of time in a work, whether literary,…
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