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Cronos: The New Dawn Features Merge-Based Enemies Ahead of Fall 2025 Launch

This original IP combines time-travel storytelling with strategic enemy merges in a stark Polish setting.

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Traveller looking at a corpse

Overview

  • The game is in its final development stage for a Fall 2025 release on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S and PC.
  • Bloober Team’s merge system forces players to burn down defeated Orphans before they fuse into unpredictable supercreatures.
  • Players will shift between a ravaged future and 1980s Poland’s brutalist Nowa Huta district as they unravel a reality-bending epidemic.
  • Combat mechanics draw on Dead Space’s dismemberment tactics and Alan Wake’s light-based shields to heighten strategic tension.
  • Core survival horror elements such as scarce resources, environmental puzzles and safe-room sanctuaries underpin the atmospheric exploration.