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Cronos: The New Dawn

Cronos: The New Dawn cover art
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
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Native LinuxDeck VerifiedSteam Machine: VerifiedSteamOS Compatible

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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