Cronos: The New Dawn Debuts Globally

Cronos: The New Dawn Debuts Globally
Cronos: The New Dawn. Credit: Bloober Team
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Key points

  1. Survival horror Cronos: The New Dawn released worldwide on Sept. 5, 2025.
  2. The title landed on Windows and macOS PCs, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch 2 and Xbox Series X|S.
  3. Cronos: The New Dawn comes priced at $59.99 for the standard edition and $69.99 for the deluxe edition.

Survival horror Cronos: The New Dawn was released worldwide for Windows and macOS PCs, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch 2 and Xbox Series X|S on Sept. 5, 2025.

Developed and published by Bloober Team, the game, played from a third-person perspective, centers around the Traveler, an agent for an organization known as the Collective, as he must survive a futuristic wasteland and travel back in time to Poland in the 1980s to extract selected people who did not survive the Change, a cataclysmic event that turned humans into monsters known as Orphans.

Cronos: The New Dawn | Launch Trailer

One of the game’s core features is corpse-merging foes, meaning that if defeated enemies are not properly disposed of using fire, a surviving enemy will merge with the undead corpses, creating a hardened, more difficult version of the same enemy.

As of the time of writing, Cronos: The New Dawn has a 76-point rating for the PC version, a 77-point rating for the PlayStation 5 edition and an 80-point rating for the Xbox Series X port on Metacritic, based on 34, 61 and five critic reviews, respectively.

Cronos: The New Dawn | Official Gameplay Trailer |  DON'T LET THEM MERGE

Cronos: The New Dawn comes priced at $59.99 for the standard edition and $69.99 for the deluxe edition, which includes 1x Core Resource, 8x Pistol Ammo, 3x Shotgun Ammo, 2x Small Health Packs, 1,500 Energy, two unique armor skins, a digital artbook and a soundtrack along with the base game.

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