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About the Game
Cronos: The New Dawn is a grim third-person survival horror action game about hunting monsters in a bleak post-apocalyptic future.
Cronos: The New Dawn is a third-person action game with a strong survival horror streak, developed and published by Bloober Team. You play a Traveler sent by a mysterious organization called The Collective to search the broken wasteland of the future for time rifts, which carry you back to 1980s Poland. The setting blends rugged Eastern European brutalist architecture with retro-futuristic technology, and the mood stays bleak from the first moment.
The core loop is tense and resource-driven. You scavenge for limited ammunition and supplies, plan ahead before venturing into dangerous areas, and fight nightmarish creatures born from human remains. Time manipulation gives you ways to carve a path through the wasteland, and every split-second decision in combat can decide whether you survive.
The most distinctive mechanic is the harvester, which lets you extract the spirits of key people destined to die in the catastrophe and bring them into the future with you. Carrying more of them strengthens your gear and your combat power, but it also brings whispers, flickering visions, and a creeping pull toward madness.
Enemies refuse to stay dead for long. Monsters absorb fallen foes through a grisly fusion process that makes them faster, stronger, and deadlier. Burning the corpses quickly is the only way to stop it, which turns every fight into a race against the clock.
Feature Highlights
- Time manipulation lets you bend events to carve a path through a hostile post-apocalyptic wasteland.
- The harvester extracts the spirits of doomed key figures, and carrying them strengthens your gear while pushing you toward madness.
- Enemies absorb fallen foes through a fusion process, so burning corpses quickly is essential to stop them from growing stronger.
- A grim Eastern European brutalist style blends with retro-futuristic technology across a story that spans the past and the future.
- Full controller support and DualSense compatibility let you play with a gamepad, which Steam recommends for this title.
- Steam achievements, Steam Cloud saves, HDR support, and Family Sharing are all available in this single-player game.
Who It Is (and Is Not) For
Recommended For
Players who enjoy tense survival horror with action combat will find plenty to like here, especially fans who want careful resource management in a bleak, atmospheric world. The time-travel story and the harvester mechanic give it a distinct identity that sets it apart from typical zombie shooters. Its single-player focus and strong controller support suit anyone who wants to sink into a dark story on their own terms.
Not Recommended For
Anyone sensitive to graphic violence, gore, or disturbing imagery should skip it, since the game carries an adult content flag and its monsters are grotesque. Players looking for a light, relaxed experience or a multiplayer game will not find either here.
What the Steam Reviews Say
Cronos: The New Dawn holds the Steam label Very Positive (極度好評), with 88% of its reviews positive across tens of thousands of reviews. That combination means the large majority of players who reviewed it recommended it, and the sample is big enough to take that result seriously.
Very Positive sits just below Overwhelmingly Positive on Steam's scale and usually signals a well-regarded game with strong approval, though not unanimous praise. With this many reviews the percentage is fairly stable, but a grim horror game will not suit every taste, so skim recent reviews to see whether the complaints players raise match what you care about.
Price History & Historical Low
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| Date | Price | Discount |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-05 | NT$1,699 | — |
| 2026-11-03 | NT$1,699 | — |
| 2026-10-27 | NT$849 | -50% |
| 2026-09-24 | NT$1,699 | — |
| 2026-09-12 | NT$1,019 | -40% |
These are Taiwan Steam store prices in NT$. Right now Cronos: The New Dawn is listed at NT$ 1699, which is also its regular price, so there is no discount at the moment. Our price record is still short, so treat the verdict below as tentative.
The lowest price we recorded is NT$ 849, reached on 2026-10-27, and the deepest discount in our record was 50%. Our records show the game is discounted often, so the full price is unlikely to be the only price you will ever see.
We have not recorded any period when the game was free to keep, so there is no free offer to watch for. At full price it sits well above the lowest price we recorded, so for most buyers a wishlist with sale alerts is the sensible approach while we build a longer price history.
Analysis written 11/3/2026 from our recorded prices; the chart above is live. Taiwan-region Steam prices.
How to Buy
- Sign in to Steam on the website or in the desktop client before you begin.
- Open the Cronos: The New Dawn store page and check the current Taiwan price, which is NT$ 1699.
- Click Add to Wishlist if you want to wait for a lower price, which keeps the game on your list without buying it.
- Turn on wishlist sale notifications in Steam's settings so you hear about discounts as soon as they start.
- When the price suits you, buy it through Add to Cart, and check back here for the price trend before you commit.
Things to Know
Traditional Chinese is supported, and it comes with full audio support alongside English. Adult content is flagged for this game, and its grisly monsters and disturbing imagery mean you should review it before playing with younger players. Prices shown here are Taiwan-region Steam prices in NT$ and may differ in other regions. Free and discount promotions can end at any time, so check the official Steam page before you buy.
