Cronos: The New Dawn

- Developer
- Bloober Team
- Publisher
- Bloober Team SA
- Released
- Sep 5, 2025
- Steam reviews
- 88% of players recommend it, from 12,033 reviews — Steam calls that “Very Positive”
- Tags
- Action
On Linux, Steam Deck and Steam Machine
Ships a native Linux build on Steam — no Proton needed. Valve rates it Deck Verified.
Valve rates it Verified on Steam Machine. Valve marks it SteamOS Compatible.
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About this game
The developer's description, from the game's Steam store page.
Cronos: The New Dawn is a brutal third-person survival horror where you fight for the future by salvaging the past. Burn monsters before they merge. Extract souls from the living. Adapt or die.

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.

In a desolate world filled with ever-present danger, your survival hinges on your ability to strategize and plan ahead. The enemies you’ll encounter are nightmarish creatures, born from the remnants of humanity – defeating them will require you to make full use of your arsenal.
You can manipulate temporal Anomalies to clear a path through the desolate environment, and will have to scavenge for resources to replenish your limited ammo and supplies. Good preparation is key. Once in battle, split-second decisions can mean the difference between life and death.

The creatures you kill won’t stay dead for long. Fallen enemies can be absorbed by others — through a grotesque process called Merging — to become faster, tougher, and far deadlier.
The only way to stop them? Burn their bodies. And do it fast.
If you don’t, you’ll face ever-evolving abominations that will push your combat skills to their limits.

Your mission is to locate key people from the past who perished in the ensuing apocalypse. Using your all-powerful Harvester, you can extract their Essences and have them accompany you into the future.
But be wary: these essences have a profound impact on your journey.
The more you carry, the more haunted your suit becomes — increasing your prowess on the battlefield but also bringing with them whispers in your ear and flickers into your vision, edging you ever closer to madness.
System requirements
As Steam lists them.
Windows
Minimum
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS
- Windows 10 x64
- Processor
- Intel Core i5-8400F, Intel Core I5-8600K | Amd Ryzen 5 3600
- Memory
- 16 GB RAM
- Graphics
- NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1080, or AMD Radeon™ RX 5700-XT, or Intel® Arc™ A770
- DirectX
- Version 12
- Storage
- 30 GB available space
- Sound Card
- Windows compatible Audio Device
Recommended
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS
- Windows 10 x64
- Processor
- Intel Core i7-10700K | Amd Ryzen 5 3600X
- Memory
- 16 GB RAM
- Graphics
- NVIDIA® GeForce®RTX 3080, or AMD Radeon™ RX6800 -XT, or Intel® Arc™ B580 (allows for gameplay in 1080p)
- DirectX
- Version 12
- Storage
- 30 GB available space
- Sound Card
- Windows compatible Audio Device
macOS
Minimum
- Requires an Apple processor
- OS
- macOS, Tahoe
- Processor
- Apple M1 MAX
- Memory
- 16 MB RAM
- Storage
- 25 GB available space
Recommended
- Requires an Apple processor
- OS
- macOS, Tahoe
- Processor
- Apple M5 MAX
- Memory
- 16 MB RAM
- Storage
- 25 MB available space
SteamOS + Linux
Minimum
- OS
- x64 Linux
- Processor
- Intel Core i5-8400F, Intel Core I5-8600K | Amd Ryzen 5 3600
- Memory
- 16 GB RAM
- Graphics
- NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1080, or AMD Radeon™ RX 5700-XT, or Intel® Arc™ A770
- Storage
- 30 GB available space
- Sound Card
- Linux compatible Audio Device
Recommended
- OS
- x64 Linux
- Processor
- Intel Core i7-10700K | Amd Ryzen 5 3600X
- Memory
- 16 GB RAM
- Graphics
- NVIDIA® GeForce®RTX 3080, or AMD Radeon™ RX6800 -XT, or Intel® Arc™ B580 (allows for gameplay in 1080p)
- Storage
- 30 GB available space
- Sound Card
- Linux compatible Audio Device
Downloadable content
Steam lists 2 items of downloadable content for this game.
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