- Publisher: Bloober Team , Skybound Games
- Release Date: Sep 5, 2025
- Also On: Nintendo Switch 2, PC, Xbox Series X
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Sep 4, 2025After the career high of Silent Hill 2, Bloober Team return to their usual routine, with a Frankenstein’s monster of other people’s ideas – all of which are expressed better elsewhere.
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Sep 3, 2025Cronos’ sweeping narrative issues speak to how thoroughly troubled the entire game is. Like the humanoid blobs that coat many of its buildings and streets, Cronos is an amalgamation of ideas that combine to form a messy whole. Its clumsily balanced combat is aggravating and regularly disempowers players, and its inane attempts at providing scares are woefully ineffective. And when underpinned by a badly paced narrative with questionable themes, Cronos: The New Dawn is anything but a new dawn for Bloober and is instead a remix of its same old deficiencies.
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Sep 3, 2025Cronos: The New Dawn is filled to the brim with potential, that ultimately falls short in how it executes all of its concepts. While there is a great story foundation and some interesting mechanics, the lackluster conclusion to the narrative, combined with irritating combat, frequent glitches, poor pacing of traversal, and repetitive gameplay scenarios make for a product that fails to capture the quality of other entries in the genre.
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Sep 3, 2025Hours after finishing the game, I struggled to fall asleep. But it wasn't the nightmare-inducing Orphans that were keeping me awake at night. It was the ramifications of the game's final choice. I still can't decide which of the two endings I unlocked was the "better" choice. One choice left me feeling like it probably wasn't the "ideal" ending. In the other, I felt I had made the best choice for my Traveler, but a post-credits cutscene left me wondering if I had done so at the expense of humanity itself.
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Sep 9, 2025All in all, Cronos: The New Dawn was tense, gritty, and challenging. While some portions of the game were trickier than others, thanks to the scarce amount of bullets, the game was enjoyable and provided some tense moments. The story was interesting, although the storytelling method of dotting lore around the world may not gel well with some players.