Cronos: The New Dawn Reviews
It's challenging, and it might take a little while for you to warm to its world and protagonist, but Cronos: The New Dawn is yet another brilliant survival horror game from Bloober Team. You'll be on the edge of your seat throughout this tense and atmospheric adventure, hopping between the past and the future while blasting enemies that grow more powerful if they manage to merge.
The world presented is second to none in its atmosphere, while fights are tense and danger everpresent. Unfortunately set pieces and enemy attacks are more frustrating, and exploitable, than fun or engaging.
Review in Arabic | Read full review
Cronos: the New Dawn features an interestingly designed world and a proven gameplay model, which benefits greatly from being set in Krakow's Nowa Huta district, but it is clear that the team does not yet have experience with action-oriented games. Horror fans can safely give this new title from Poland a chance.
Review in Polish | Read full review
Cronos: The New Dawn is a retrofuturistic horror-action game with tense survival combat, atmospheric world design, and rewarding upgrades. Its slow-paced storytelling and eerie soundscape build tension, delivering a gripping 15-hour experience, though scarce ammo, frequent deaths, and tough bosses can feel punishing. A demanding but memorable journey for fans of atmospheric survival horror.
Review in Slovak | Read full review
Fantastic art direction can't save Cronos: The New Dawn from its boring gameplay, and awkward story.
Cronos: The New Dawn feels like an average game coming on the heels of the amazing Silent Hill 2 remake. The reasonably fun gunplay is dragged down by a lackluster story and occasional moments of annoyance. It has a lot of cool ideas, but none of them quite hit the mark in the way I hoped. It's still a perfectly fun little survival horror romp but doesn't quite go anywhere above that. It's absolutely worth a shot if you're looking for something to fill the Dead Space-shaped hole in your heart, but it could've used a little extra punch.
Overall, Bloober Team proves with Cronos: The New Dawn that it has reached a solid level of maturity in crafting horror experiences—even without relying on a big name like Silent Hill. The game’s relatively slow-paced storytelling may not appeal to everyone, but patient players will find themselves rewarded with a gripping narrative. Similarly, the gameplay blends the best elements of survival horror with creative ideas—such as enemies merging into new threats—and only really falls short in its somewhat underwhelming puzzles. On the technical side, top-notch visuals, excellent sound design, and masterful atmosphere-building deliver a genuinely terrifying experience, despite occasional frame drops. For horror fans, Cronos is easily one of the best choices available right now—and one you definitely shouldn’t miss.
Review in Persian | Read full review
Combining a brutal setting, strong psychological elements, and engaging narrative, Cronos: The New Dawn represents another success for Bloober Team, although the repetition of objectives and limited variety in combat compromise the pace at times.
Review in Portuguese | Read full review
Cronos: The New Dawn fails to deliver a well-rounded survival horror experience due to combat that doesn't measure up to the rest of the game. On the other hand, it also gives us a wonderful science fiction story that is fascinating both narratively and visually.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
An ambitious yet flawed survival horror. Its great atmosphere and setting are marred by bugs, repetitive enviromnents, and more bugs. A shame.
Review in Italian | Read full review
What Cronos does, it does very well, and taking the recency bias of the Silent Hill 2 Remake out of the equation, I can’t recall a new survival-horror game I’ve enjoyed this much and found this immersive in a while.
Despite a few glimmers of brilliance, Cronos: The New Dawn ends up so aggressively mediocre on so many levels that it’s hard not to feel disappointed by what could have been.
Despite its flaws, Cronos manages to deliver an atmospheric and at times tense adventure. However, with several mechanics poorly implemented and issues that Bloober left unpolished before release, the result is an average horror experience that can keep you engaged - at least until its rough edges begin to wear you down.
Review in Unknown | Read full review
Cronos: The New Dawn comes highly recommended because Bloober Team has not only found its identity in the horror genre, but also because rarely will a game draw you in like this one does. It will immerse you in an uncomfortable, dark, and brutal journey where every bullet and every decision matters. A tense and immersive survival horror experience awaits you, a unique blend of anguish and fascination.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
Cronos: The New Dawn nails the survival horror vibe with scarce resources, relentless enemies, and an oppressive setting. The audio design in Cronos is one of the game’s highlights, turning every step through ruined Poland into a nerve-wracking moment. Combat can get clunky, checkpoints are harsh, and the story doesn’t always flow well, but pulling through tough fights with just enough left is satisfying. If you’re into survival horror that rewards planning over nonstop action, Cronos is worth checking out.
Cronos: The New Dawn is an ambitious step by Bloober Team, combining horror, action, and survival in a devastated world. Mechanics such as enemy fusion and time manipulation are interesting, but technical flaws, repetitive combat, and an unsatisfactory ending limit its impact.
Review in Portuguese | Read full review
Cronos: The New Dawn is the work that marks Bloober Team's true evolutionary leap. Despite obvious inspirations from pioneering titles in the genre, the Polish company's new IP manages to engage and offer original mechanics, including the ingenious union of enemies. Leaving aside a few animations that are not yet up to scratch and checkpoint management that could be improved, we feel compelled to reward the guys from Krakow and can't wait to see what they have in store for us in the future.
Review in Italian | Read full review
Cronos: The New Dawn is a very good survival horror game, but it was released too early. It's a game that should have been left to simmer a little longer before being served up to hungry gamers. The optimization definitely needs some work. In terms of gameplay, the game does not disappoint, although it does not bring much freshness to the genre. It can be described as a horror version of “all greatest hits,” taking the foundations of well-known and well-functioning mechanics and solutions, and then applying a characteristic filter steeped in Polishness.
Review in Polish | Read full review
It’s a smart, spectacular addition to the survival horror genre that deserves to blossom into a full-blown franchise.
Cronos marks Bloober Team’s most mature work yet, blending ambitious storytelling and meticulous world-building with a strong technical foundation, delivering a haunting and intense experience despite some uneven combat design
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