Top Critic Average
Critics Recommend
Strategic Resource‑Play
Engaging Mystery
Clunky Combat
Cronos: The New Dawn blends tense survival horror with atmospheric world design, strategic resource management, and a sci‑fi mystery set in 1980s Poland that keeps players engaged through its campaign and horror beats.
Cronos: The New Dawn is Bloober Team's best original game yet. An immersive romp through a suffocating portrayal of 80s Poland, where your journey is far from what it first seems.
The scariest part of Cronos: The New Dawn is probably the frustrating combat, and while it boasts a selection of surprisingly cool puzzles, they're not enough to save the experience.
Cronos: The New Dawn checks most of the survival-horror boxes, but is held back by clunky combat and an underwhelming narrative.
There is a great survival horror game at the centre of Cronos, but it would have been much stronger if it had broken new ground rather than wondering tentatively on what came before.
Extremely limited inventory slots sometimes make these battles feel like I'm holding my breath underwater.
Cronos: The New Dawn has an excellent, thoughtful premise that feels dark and dangerous, but does a poor job of executing on its promising sci-fi ideas. A questionable religion born from trying to save the world in the face of a rampaging disease with clear parallels to the global pandemic we all recently experienced is great fodder for a story, but I was left shrugging my shoulders by the end. Thankfully, the gameplay, though familiar, offered plenty to pull me through the approximately 12-hour experience to see the end.
Bloober Team follows its Silent Hill 2 remake with an original horror story that is tense throughout, though sometimes too punishing.
Bloober Team's latest horror game transports players to a post-socialist utopian world, blending classic survival horror elements with unique sci-fi.
Bloober couldn't help itself from putting a little nod to Silent Hill 2 in Cronos.
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The reviews are in, and Cronos is only just scoring better than The Medium and Layers of Fear.
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