The Future Games Show on March 20, 2025, will feature Bloober Team unveiling new images of their game “Cronos: The New Dawn,” which was first glimpsed in October 2024 and generated significant interest. Utilizing this event, the Polish studio presented a deep dive video featuring Wojciech Piejko and Jacek Zięba, the game’s directors, who provided further details about the game’s universe and some gameplay elements. We learn that players will take on the role of the Voyager, a type of time agent capable of navigating through spatio-temporal rifts to rescue individuals who could not survive the cataclysmic event that led to humanity’s downfall and enabled time travel. As for inspirations, Bloober Team cites several games including Dead Space, as well as Dark Souls for its challenge level, along with films like “12 Monkeys,” “The Thing,” and the Netflix series “Dark.”
During the video’s conclusion, they answer a series of quick questions, providing additional details. As a result, it is clear that Cronos The New Dawn will include climbable scales, walls covered with decaying bodies, enemies likely to be aliens that can be shot at, a melee combat system, the option to use a flamethrower, the ability to dismember enemies, and bosses to defeat.
