Cronos: The New Dawn video game
Cronos: The New Dawn is a third-person survival horror game developed and published by Bloober Team, released on September 5th, 2025. The game follows the Traveler, an agent working for a mysterious organization known as “the Collective”. The Traveler is tasked with traveling to the past of 1980s Poland and extracting key people while surviving its current future as a post-apocalyptic wasteland, after a catastrophic event known as “the Change” turned many of its residents into monsters.
Cronos: The New Dawn’s logo gives a strong first impression, with “Cronos” having a glitch effect that gets stronger close to the center. I’m unsure whether it’s based on a typeface or was handmade by Bloober’s artists. “The New Dawn” uses caps from a bold weight of Futura. In the game, JetBrains Mono is used as the primary typeface for the user interface. Most text is set in the Regular weight, while Bold is used for highlighted text. Handjet is used exclusively for doors and items that are locked with keypads.
Dark version of the game’s logo
Main menu
Settings menu
The Traveler recouping herself in a safe room. The standard HUD is shown here, displaying key information such as objectives, items, weapons and a rather small ammo counter.
The Traveler scavenging for resources before getting confronted. More valuable items have their own dedicated text box when collected.
Save menu
Inputting a code for a locked safe
Reading a note
The Traveler’s inventory which comes equipped with a fabricator to create items from salvaged parts
The Traveler’s database. Notes and recordings found in the world are stored here.
