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Bloober Team posts Cronos: The New Dawn launch trailer

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Bloober Team posts Cronos: The New Dawn launch trailer
Bloober Team's Cronos: The New Dawn has launched on for Windows and consoles. The third-person survival horror game built in Unreal Engine 5 invites players to defy gravity and manipulate temporal anomalies.

The player takes on the role of a Traveler, tasked with viyaging back to 1980s-era Poland and extracting individuals who perished in the apocalypse, using a tool called the "Harvester." The storyline summary describes "The Change," a cataclysmic event that fundamentally altered the fate of humanity, shaping a visual aesthetic described as "Eastern European brutalism meets retro-futurist technology."

In addition to staying attentive to resource management, players will encounter 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."


Music is composed by Arkadiusz Reikowski, co-composer on the Silent Hill 2 remake. The developer has posted preview tracks with brief commentary:
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 available for Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S consoles. The PC edition for Windows through Steam and the Epic Games Store is verified for use with the Steam Deck.


From the product page:
Cronos: The New Dawn is a pulse-pounding, third-person survival horror game that throws you into the heart of a deadly struggle against overwhelming foes, all while uncovering the mysteries of a twisted time travel story.
YouTube Music - Cronos: The New Dawn - Official Soundtrack EP