summary
- Bloober Team introduces evolved mutants who team up and evolve during battle in the survival horror game Cronos.
- Fallen enemies must be burned to prevent them from merging and evolving into deadly creatures.
- Chronos combat requires resource management, all bullets must be counted and fire strategically used.
You may have fought mutants, but you don’t evolve together in the middle of the battle. It’s a nightmare Bloober team throwing you in Cronos: The New Dawn, a boring new Survival horror project.
Chronos drops you into a prepost base for corrupt research called the nest. There, we must navigate a world where survivors’ engineering forces are crumbling due to biotechnology disasters.
And this time, Bloober doesn’t just take away psychological fear like a layer of fear. They go to the throat with the actions we’ve seen this year and the actions of the most frightening enemies.
Chronos “Don’t merge them” is a warning
At the heart of Cronos is one brutal rule. With a straight twist from the Dead Space School of Limb Distributed Tactics, Chronos enemies can be fused with fallen mutants if left unmanned. Yes, they can evolve into deadly creatures with new abilities.
“The key to survival is fire,” the trailer warns. This means that if you don’t clean all your bodies, nearby monsters will absorb corpses and create an evolved, grotesque super mutant that will shift the battlefield in seconds.
This requires you to think quickly and manage your resources under pressure. You can either burn that body right now or risk being overwhelmed later. It’s about finishing what you started.
Chronos: New Dawn’s weapon and fire burden
The battles in Chronos are intentional and merciless. They’re not harvesting horde like Resident Evil 4. It manages limited resources, counts all bullets, and uses fires as an important postwar tool.
One scene shows a flamethrower-style device used to ensure that enemies are completely incinerated before they merge. It proves that fires are a more cleanup protocol and not using it is something that will kill you.
CRONOS: The New Dawn is a big tone shift for the Bloober team, close to something like Dead Space, but it doesn’t just borrow a borrowing element, but doubles evolution-based combat and tactical risk.
If the remake of Silent Hill 2 is a horror bet of their fame, then Chronos is a genre-breaking gamble for the Blooper team, and judging by this trailer, it could just pay off.
CRONOS: The New Dawn is scheduled to be released in 2025 on PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/s.
