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Bloober Team releases Temporal Diver mode for Cronos: The New Dawn

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Bloober Team releases Temporal Diver mode for Cronos: The New Dawn
Bloober Team has launched the Temporal Diver mode for Cronos: The New Dawn. The easy difficulty mode is intended for players wishing to delve into the game's time travel narrative with less demanding combat challenges.

The third-person survival horror game, built in Unreal Engine 5, invites players to defy gravity and manipulate temporal anomalies. The visual aesthetic is described as "Eastern European brutalism meets retro-futurist technology."

The storyline centers on 'The Change,' a cataclysmic event that fundamentally altered the fate of humanity. The Traveler is tasked with voyaging back to 1980s-era Poland and extracting individuals who perished in the apocalypse, using a tool called the "Harvester."


Players are required to stay attentive to resource management, while encountering enemies that merge with each other during battle. Lead combat designer Shamil Yanbukhtin commented on the PlayStation Blog, "This radically alters the dynamic of every encounter, with each Merge exponentially increasing its difficulty in real-time."

Composed by Arkadiusz Reikowski, the Official Soundtrack EP is streaming on YouTube Music, with commentary provided in the video descriptions:
The Traveler - Having a retro-futuristic atmosphere is at the heart of our game's entire audio design and music philosophy. Classic synthesizers merge with organic instruments really well and we want to take full advantage of that.

The Collective - The gamelan is used as an audio identifier for Travelers throughout the game's soundtrack, bringing a unique flair to the music of Cronos: The New Dawn.
Cronos: The New Dawn is currently available for Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S consoles. The PC edition is hosted on Steam, GOG.com, and the Epic Games Store, verified for use with the Steam Deck.


From the Nintendo product page:
Set in a grim world where Eastern European brutalism meets retro-futurist technology, Cronos: The New Dawn lets you experience a gripping story that straddles the line between past and future. In the past, you will witness a world in the throes of The Change, a cataclysmic event that forever altered humanity. Meanwhile, in the ravaged wastelands of the future, every moment is a fight for survival against dangerous abominations that will test both your reflexes and your tactical thinking. You are a Traveler working for the enigmatic Collective, tasked with scouring the wastelands of the future in search of time rifts that will transport you to 1980s-era Poland.
YouTube Music - Cronos: The New Dawn - Official Soundtrack EP