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Cronos: The New Dawn review

Cronos: The New Dawn is Bloober Team's best original game yet. An immersive romp through a suffocating portrayal of 80s Poland.

While wading through decaying buildings and diving through time and space, it's your job to track down people who were key to the Change to extract their souls with a device called the harvester, a contraption that could be straight out of A Nightmare on Elm Street which sees needle-sharp blades extend like claws from the traveler's suit. While I have my qualms with some aspects of Cronos: The New Dawn's combat and inventory systems (and even had a less-than-pleasant issue that saw the final boss despawn mid-fight for me) what I absolutely can't deny is that Bloober Team has created an incredibly immersive adventure - one that can test your concentration and strategy as much as your patience. Cronos' jumpscares got me on more than once occasion; its story of disease, identity, and companionship will tug at your heartstrings between all the horror; and through the exquisite execution of 1980s Poland - Bloober Team's home country - and it's detailed environmental storytelling, you can see just how much passion has gone into this brutal excursion.

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