Cronos: The New Dawn is a brutal, third-person survival horror game set in a world blending Eastern European brutalism with retro-futurist technology, where you must fight nightmarish creatures in a post-apocalyptic future to salvage the past by time-traveling to the 1980s to stop a cataclysmic event called "The Change". You play as a "Traveler" tasked with extracting key people and using fire to prevent monsters from merging into unstoppable abominations. The game features a dual timeline narrative, a mix of melee and firearm combat, and a focus on tactical survival and strategic planning against challenging foes.