Cronos: The New Dawn

Impulse GamerMarc Rigg

The survival horror renaissance of recent years continues to go from strength to strength for a genre that publishers declared dead a decade ago. We’ve had

Analog Stick GamingJeff Young

9/10

Bloober Team found their confidence in the Silent Hill 2 remake, and this has shown a side of the studio that could be a force to be reckoned with. Cronus: The New Dawn is easily their best work, and I say that as someone who found the Silent Hill 2 remake to be absolutely jaw-dropping.

NoobFeedRayan

88/100

When the survival horror comes after you.

WayTooManyGamesKyle Nicol

8.5/10

Bloober Team is one of those studios that got off to an incredibly rough start. Their initial batch of titles, such as Layers of Fear, oozed pretentiousness whilst lacking in horror and payoff, and to be honest, I was hugely worried about the Silent Hill 2 Remake once Bloober Team was announced to be the ones working on it. However, it turned out to be one of my favourite games of the last year, a fantastic remake that not only lives up to the legacy of the original game but also improves on ...

Checkpoint GamingLuke Mitchell

8.5/10

Bloober Team have been steadily sharpening their skills as horror developers over the last several years; some hits, some misses, and a lot of learning. They have dabbled in their own slow-burning original IP like Layers of Fear, tackling big supernatural brands like Blair Witch, and even last year, finding great success with the remake of Silent Hill 2, their main terrifying inspiration. Of course, that was building on the rock-solid, iconic foundations of the original. With Cronos: The New ...

Worth PlayingCody Medellin

8/10

Cronos: The New Dawn is a sci-fi survival horror game with a twisted time travel story set in an unforgiving post-apocalyptic future in 1980s Poland.

Console CreaturesBobby Pashalidis

8/10

Cronos: The New Dawn is a culmination of over a decade of experience from Bloober Team. Through the years, the studio has risen to the challenge, and this trend continues with its newest franchise, which is a mix of some of the biggest survival horror games to exist. The campaign is brutal and challenges you to survive in a bleak, failed world where a virus has wreaked havoc in Eastern Europe, and the sci-fi elements present a fun twist on the formula.

Pure NintendoJemma Casson

7.5/10

Cronos: The New Dawn is a self-described “brutal third-person survival horror” game. This could be the most apt description of an eShop listing I’ve ever

Nintendo World ReportJoel A. DeWitte

7.5/10

All that said, I did feel invested into learning more about the world of Cronos: The New Dawn. No, you’re not going to get a substantive exploration of the politics of pandemics or a deep exploration of human nature, but there’s enough information littered about that at least paints a picture of people in the throes of their annihilation. The game does a good job of keeping some mystery throughout while unfolding the world at an effective pace. The combat is harrowing, and I could feel the pang of dread in most encounters. The game is workmanlike – it’s unlikely to dethrone your fa…

WellPlayedZach Jackson

7.5/10

Cronos: The New Dawn is easily Bloober Team’s best original work, delivering a challenging sci-fi survival horror experience with brutal combat in an immersive and tense setting. It’s just a shame that it doesn’t quite nail the resource management that would elevate it to greatness.

StevivorJay Ball

7.5/10

There’s a reason Konami entrusted Polish developer Bloober Team to remaster Silent Hill 2. The group has without doubt earned its chops in the survival horror genre; Bloober’s latest original release, Cronos The New Dawn, is in many ways evidence of this fact.

Nintendo LifeOllie Reynolds

7/10

Although Cronos: The New Dawn doesn't quite reach the heights of Bloober Team's excellent Silent Hill 2 remake, it's nevertheless the result of a studio that has levelled up significantly from the days of Layers of Fear and Blair Witch. It's a celebration of survival horror, paying homage to all the genre greats effectively, although failing to do anything truly original. That said, the setting and story really help elevate the experience. This is a solid Switch 2 version (assuming a rather unpleasant bug gets fixed soon), and there's real potential here for Cronos to become a central pillar o...