“Cronos. The New Dawn,” a little gem of “survival horror” from Poland
Polish critics have unanimously praised the release of the survival horror game "Cronos. The New Dawn," from Bloober Team, on September 5. The setting plunges players into the heart of the communist era, in Nowa Huta, an industrial neighborhood on the outskirts of Krakow that exudes socialist realism and the 1980s.
According to the Polish press, the Polish studio Bloober Team, based in Krakow, has just released a little gem, available since September 5 on consoles and PC.
According to the video game platform Gry-online.pl , Cronos. The New Dawn, with its “unique blend of retro science fiction, social realism, and survival horror, is tantalizing for fans of the genre.” For Filmweb.pl , a website specializing in cinema and digital entertainment, the game simply “rivals” Resident Evil and Dead Space, two other cult works that combine horror with survival mechanics.
To attract critics, the Krakow studio didn't do things by halves by inviting journalists to test the game on site, in the suburbs of Krakow, in the Nowa Huta steelworks, a typical industrial district of the communist years which inspired the settings of Cronos.
“The story plunges us into a post-apocalyptic reality after a catastrophe known as the Change,” writes Filmweb.pl, “nightmarish creatures” roam there and it is there that we meet the Traveler, sent by the Collective. The heroine “travels through the ruins of the city of New Dawn in search of
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