Cronos: The New Dawn is a survival sci-fi horror game from Bloober Team. Source: Bloober Team
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Why Bloober Team made Cronos into a tough survival sci-fi horror game | exclusive interview

Bloober Team recently revealed its sci-fi horror survival game, Cronos: The New Dawn. I had a chance to play through early levels of the game at a recent preview event in Oakland, California. And then I interviewed the game leads.

They talked about setting the game in their hometown in Krakow, Poland, inside a giant steel manufacturing complex built during the Communist post-war era. The time fast forwards into an alternative history future when the Brutalist architecture is in ruins and destroyed objects just float in the air.

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