Instead of the developer Blueber team, it has more eyes on it than ever, but instead of successful, critical and commercially, the remake of the silent Hill 2, which was released in the end of 2024. But this is a remake, and Cronus: the new Dawn is anti-new survival horror IP. What kind of statement do you try to follow all this success with the original work since then?
“We can be really heavy,” Cronus says, immediately, when I ask directly during the interview at GDC 2025, New Dawn co -director Jesk Ziba says.
Key information
Developer: Bluer team
Publisher: Bluer team
Platform (tongues): PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S
Date of Release: 2025
“When we started to crush, our other team was already remaking the silent Hill 2,” said fellow co -director Wozich Pageco. “So from the beginning, we don’t want to overlap them with them. So we said, ‘Well, let’s make it heavy to the gameplay, such as a limited inventory, many decisions, more tools, more weapons.”
“I think this game is more residential,” they continue, “but still, we’ve got a deep psychological story to tell us.”
Familiar and unfamiliar
“We worked together on the medium, and now we have a big fish here.” “Our dream is fulfilled; our first survival is made by us as a horror game.”
“We are excited that we get out of the closet,” Ziba says.
“Four years after making this make, show it,” Pageco added, “it is amazing. “
Crunos’ Basic Foundation: New Dawn saw the players played the role of a passenger, “a mysterious collective agent, which emerges to sink from a dustupin future and remove key people, before they first show up the Cronus Game Play Trailer.”
“We are in a strange future,” says Ziba. “We do not know at all, but what is important: the world ends in the decade (80), and we are in Poland. So you will see everything, Poland was never seen in (80’s), but it has never had the opportunity to go to the 90s-so this is an alternative date. Allows, and allows to use. “
An analog -style science science for Crohus is bent: New Dawn, which is also very Polish. According to the co -directors, the two are deliberately and necessary. All the writing in the game is in Polish, for example, though you can share for all the titles translated on them. Ziba shows me that pointing to some store marks during the Hands of Demo, clearly noting that the design decision eliminates strange and strangeness for other players who do not know Polish.
“New Don, this is a subtitle of our game, but also the name of the district where the game is taking place,” Pageko says. “And New Don is based on a real district of Kraku, called Nova removed in the real world, which means ‘new steel works’. So we re -made it – of course, (we) changed here a little, but if you come to Poland, Kraku, you can know many places there.
Integrate the madness
“This is a complete survival horror game with limited inventory, and whatever you can imagine, but we did something special to make the fight,” Pageko cited one of the Cronus: one of New Don’s basic mechanics.
Recently. , You can meet together to make enemies and even terrible monsters. Even if you have dropped an enemy, if they are not completely neutral – for example, burn them – they can be manufactured in a single critic with each other who is larger and large with extra capabilities.
Ziba demonstrates that all the orphans in the area awaken (the name of Cronus). As he does, there is a short, alien visible animation where an orphan gets closer enough and swallowed the other, and then the other, and then the second, even the stirring movement in front of us is barely similar, which is as wonderful as it is. Despite the location, the following fight is not a picnic.
“We created everything around this margin mechanic,” Pageko says. Our weapons are ready to control the crowd. ” For example, you can fire your pistols in general, such as enemies, or you can queue them and fire piercing shots, and literally suffer more explosion for your deer. Similarly, a charged shotgun shot increases its spread, which allows you to fight enemies in a vast area.
“It also creates a sense of an old horror game of school survival because you stick to the ground, targeting you.” “Here you can move, but really slowly, as a good risk and reward type.”
Encouragement design
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Although some Crono: New Dawn’s inspiration is more obvious than others, but one rest stands: Dark, reality time travel Netflix series. A brief description of this show is basically impossible, but it plays with hereditary horror for time travel while also trying to prevent a apocalypse with harmful influence and philosophical requirements.
“When we saw it, it had a huge impact on us,” said Ziba, even during the medium. But for this game, (dark) was one of the back bones. “
The pair is immediately a group of other inspiration.
“In the case of sports, all new (residential Evil Games); perhaps most races, in a way, different, different, say,” says Ziba. “The dead place. Even the last of us – there are many different tastes of survival horror in this game.”
We have created everything around this margin mechanic. Our weapons are ready to overcome the crowd
“We are also affected by the Dark Solice Games, so we are sometimes putting traps into a surface to change the speed,” when we look for a bright, green boil area while doting the earth. “You run out, and now (inside), it’s not the best idea. Of course, we don’t want to be a bad game master so you can see all the mines if you pay attention.”
However, this is not just a net and surface design. Zeba notes that the vision of the Wisdom Ware about the story and the overall design philosophy is also alive and better in Cronus: The New Dawn. If you want to know everything, all the details and details of the lore will need to be deepened – and if you are very comfortable and unnecessary, Cronus will punish you at all.
Despite all these controversial inspiration, co -directors do not worry about Cronus: New Dawn is losing its identity in this mixture. In fact, they laugh when I ask how they make sure they do not lose all of this soup.
“We have a game that in the 80s of Poland, in a strange future, science -fi cassette is in the future,” says Ziba. “I think we are different.”
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