Cronos: The New Dawn is a brutal third-person survival horror game where players fight for the future by saving the past. The action takes place in a bleak world where Eastern European barbarism meets retro-futuristic technology, allowing players to experience an immersive story at the intersection of past and future.

The main features of the game include:

• The action occurs in a bleak world where change is inevitable and dangers lurk everywhere.
• Players are travelers working for a mysterious collective, seeking temporal gaps that will transport them to Poland.
• Survival depends on strategy and planning, with enemies being horrifying creatures originating from the ruins of humanity.
• The ability to manipulate temporal anomalies allows navigation through the ruined environment, requiring resource scavenging to restore ammunition and supplies.
• Decisions made in fractions of a second can determine the fate of the game's two parallel universes.
• Defeated creatures do not stay dead for long, as fallen enemies can be absorbed by others, becoming faster and more dangerous.
• The mission is to find critical individuals from the past who have been lost in the revelation and extract their substances to follow the players into the future.
• Collecting these substances significantly influences the course of the game, making equipment more powerful but also more dangerous.