The New Dawn Reveals Release Window and New Gameplay

Cronos: The New Dawn will 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-new Cronos: The New Dawn gameplay footage.

The latest title from the Silent Hill 2 remake 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 announced Cronos: The New Dawn in October 2024, committing to launching the game sometime in 2025.

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The Polish developer has now narrowed down that release window to fall 2025. Taking to the June 2025 Xbox Games Showcase, Bloober Team premiered another Cronos: The New Dawn trailer, 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 monsters must 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 to Cronos: 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 Dawn will 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 Dawn may appeal to fans of Dead Space and 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.

Cronos: The New Dawn

Released

2025

ESRB

M For Mature 17+ // Intense Violence, Blood and Gore, Drug Reference, Strong Language

Engine

Unreal Engine

Number of Players

1