Overview
- Cronos: The New Dawn will receive the Temporal Diver easy setting as a free update, with Nintendo Life reporting an early 2026 release window.
- Bloober Team describes the mode as aimed at those seeking the story experience without challenging encounters.
- Nintendo Life reports the new setting boosts player health and lowers enemy difficulty to create a less stressful playthrough.
- With the update, the game will offer three tiers: Temporal Diver, the standard Anvil of the Collective, and Forged in Fire, which unlocks after completing a normal run.
- The move follows criticism at the September 2025 launch that the default difficulty felt punishing and that the only alternative available then was a tougher hard mode, while some coverage shows a minor naming variance as 'Temporal Dive.'