Bloober Team has unveiled a new developer diary for Cronos: The New Dawn, providing an in-depth look at the game's narrative and revealing previously undisclosed details about its central mysteries. This latest glimpse into the time-traveling survival horror title comes just weeks before the game's highly anticipated launch on September 5, 2025.

Originally announced in October 2024, Cronos: The New Dawn has been generating buzz with its unique blend of survival horror and time-travel mechanics. Bloober Team has been steadily releasing information about the game, covering everything from its inspirations and enemy designs to combat systems and other gameplay elements.

The latest developer diary delves into the game's setting and story, featuring insights from lead writer Grzegorz Like and producer Klaudia Sewera. The video introduces "The Change," a catastrophic event that reshaped the game's universe in the 1980s. Like describes this mysterious phenomenon as a "weird disease," hinting at its profound impact on the game's world.

In Cronos: The New Dawn, players assume the role of Travelers, emissaries of the enigmatic Collective. Their mission involves traveling back in time to locate and extract specific targets—VIPs sought by the Collective. However, the extraction process is far from conventional. As Sewera explains, it involves "taking away souls of human beings," a mechanic that adds a unique twist to the gameplay.

Players will have the freedom to choose which characters to extract, and these decisions will significantly impact both gameplay and narrative. Like emphasizes that these choices will shape how players "perceive the whole game," suggesting a high degree of replayability.