A whole new breed of survival horror emerges with Cronos: The New Dawn. Survive the brutal wastelands of the future, fight nightmarish merging creatures and jump back in time to harvest souls as you seek to uncover the origins of the apocalypse that wiped out humanity.
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Cronos: The New Dawn is a brutal third-person survival horror where you fight for the future by salvaging the past. Burn monsters before they merge. Extract souls from the living. Adapt or die.
Set in a grim world where Eastern European brutalism meets retro-futurist technology, Cronos: The New Dawn lets you experience a gripping story that straddles the line between past and future.
In the past, you will witness a world in the throes of The Change, a cataclysmic event that forever altered humanity. Meanwhile, in the ravaged wastelands of the future, every moment is a fight for survival against dangerous abominations that will test both your reflexes and your tactical thinking.
You are a Traveler working for the enigmatic Collective, tasked with scouring the wastelands of the future in search of time rifts that will transport you to 1980s-era Poland.
In a desolate world filled with ever-present danger, your survival hinges on your ability to strategize and plan ahead. The enemies you’ll encounter are nightmarish creatures, born from the remnants of humanity – defeating them will require you to make full use of your arsenal.
You can manipulate temporal Anomalies to clear a path through the desolate environment, and will have to scavenge for resources to replenish your limited ammo and supplies. Good preparation is key. Once in battle, split-second decisions can mean the difference between life
and death.
The creatures you kill won’t stay dead for long. Fallen enemies can be absorbed by others — through a grotesque process called Merging — to become faster, tougher, and far deadlier.
The only way to stop them? Burn their bodies. And do it fast.
If you don’t, you’ll face ever-evolving abominations that will push your combat skills to their limits.
Your mission is to locate key people from the past who perished in the ensuing apocalypse. Using your all-powerful Harvester, you can extract their Essences and have them accompany you into the future.
But be wary: these essences have a profound impact on your journey.
The more you carry, the more haunted your suit becomes — increasing your prowess on the battlefield but also bringing with them whispers in your ear and flickers into your vision, edging you ever closer to madness.
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Languages: English*, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America +3 more
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Engagement
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It was a good experience. The fights felt too stiff for me but after a few attempts at certain sections I managed to get a hang of it.
This game allows very little backtracking. As long as you are ware of that, it's a fun sci-fi survival horror game. As such, the replay value is low.
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This game already feels like peak survival horror. Definitely getting invested already but it played like absolute crap on my laptop thats got a i9 13980HX and 4070 (8GB VRAM) 16GB RAM. Constantly stuttering and major ghosting no matter what i did… swapped over to my desktop with a i7 13700k and 5070ti (16GB VRAM) 32GB RAM and it immediately played better BUT im running a 32:9 5120x1440p super ultrawide and it had ghosting. Oddly enough, i turned on DSR factors and bumped the resolution up to 7680 × 2160 turned on ray tracing and bumped dlss up to quality and its smoother looks better and performance better. I’m not a tech genius but its super odd that making the game more demanding made it a better experience. Im not mad at all though because the game looks absolutely amazing with these settings. As for gameplay so far. The progression is feeling good and drawing me in, exploration already seems good and the dread oh man i can feel the pressure with low ammo and stims. Excited to keep playing. Will hopefully remember to update my review with some decent time in later but so far I can recommend it and can tell itll be a great game if you got a beefy pc. If you are running specs near my laptops or less. Pass on it or play it on console, i have read that it’s optimized well there.
4.5/5
Kedvelem ezt a műfajt, de az egész játék akad, darabos egy közepes gépen (rx 6600, 5500cpu, 16gb ram). Ha kikapcsolsz mindent, bűn ronda és akad tovább. Utiljára a "still wakes from the deep" volt ilyen nálam. Ezentúl jobban fogok vigyázni az UE5 játékokkal. Visszatérítve.
This game is amazing. Play it. If you love RE, Silent Hill, or Dead Space, then play this game. I hope this is the start of a new IP because the story deserves to be expanded. No brainer when on sale.
Cool game very good
No puedo seleccionar personaje, no entiendo porque tengo que ser una mujer. Con mouse y teclado va fatal. Gráficos realmente malos para PC. Solicité reembolso.
Totalny kozak, pół gry sie czlowiek glowi o co w ogole chodzi a jak do niego dochodzi o co chodzi to rozpierdala czaszke. Polecam 10/10
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