A whole new breed of survival horror emerges with Cronos: The New Dawn. Survive the brutal wastelands of the future, fight nightmarish merging creatures and jump back in time to harvest souls as you seek to uncover the origins of the apocalypse that wiped out humanity.
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About This Game

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.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

This Game may contain content not appropriate for all ages, or may not be appropriate for viewing at work: Frequent Violence or Gore, General Mature Content

System Requirements

Windows
SteamOS + Linux
    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
    Minimum:
    • OS: x64 Linux
    • Processor: Intel Core i5-8400F, Intel Core I5-8600K | Amd Ryzen 5 3600
    • Memory: 16 MB RAM
    • Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1080, or AMD Radeon™ RX 5700-XT, or Intel® Arc™ A770
    • Storage: 30 MB available space
    • Sound Card: Linux compatible Audio Device
    Recommended:
    • OS: x64 Linux
    • Processor: Intel Core i7-10700K | Amd Ryzen 5 3600X
    • Memory: 16 MB RAM
    • Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce®RTX 3080, or AMD Radeon™ RX6800 -XT, or Intel® Arc™ B580 (allows for gameplay in 1080p)
    • Storage: 30 MB available space
    • Sound Card: Linux compatible Audio Device

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