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Bloober Team Details Cronos: The New Dawn’s Story and Mechanics in Latest Developer Diary

The diary sheds light on how the game’s soul-harvesting system drives its branching narrative

Promotional screenshot of a ruined world in Cronos: The New Dawn
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Cronos: The New Dawn
Travel back in time to prevent the downfall of your world or die trying.

Overview

  • Cronos: The New Dawn will launch on September 5 for PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and Nintendo Switch 2.
  • Players take on the role of a Traveler who uses temporal rifts to move between a devastated future and 1980s Krakow’s Nowa Huta to harvest souls that could avert humanity’s collapse.
  • Extracted souls affect the plot’s direction, grant special in-game perks and impose progressive hauntings that challenge the protagonist’s sanity.
  • Combat revolves around using fire to burn mutated monsters to death as players balance their mission objectives against survival threats.
  • The Warden, voiced by Alan Turkington, serves as the central hub guide, supplying tools and revealing the Collective’s deeper motives.