The footage demonstrates the game’s unique “Merge” mechanic, where fallen enemies called The Orphans can absorb nearby corpses if players don’t burn bodies quickly enough. This transforms them into faster, stronger abominations with new abilities.
Players control The Traveler, a time-traveling agent from a dystopian future who extracts individuals before apocalyptic events. The game features dual time periods – decaying future landscapes and 1980s Poland – with environments inspired by Kraków’s Nowa Huta district and its Brutalist architecture.
The video also previews a formidable boss encounter with an entity called Terror, highlighting the psychological horror elements that define the experience.
Cronos: The New Dawn launches Fall 2025 on Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5, and PC via Steam and Epic. The game is available for wishlisting across all platforms.
