The new horror game from the developer of the Silent Hill 2 remake is a time travel through apocalyptic Eastern Europe

Bloober Team announced its next horror game at last night’s Xbox Partner Preview showcase. It’s called Cronos: The New Dawn and it’s about – bear with me here – going to the past, harvesting souls, and then going to the future so they can help you. It’s all because you’re, um, wanting to find a special crevice in the futureso you can return to a special version of the past. I think. Anyway, yes, it looks pretty good.

Cronos is set in a “dark world”, based on Eastern European brutalism and mixed with some “retro-futuristic technology”. From the looks of the trailer, you play as the Commando from Risk Of Rain, who has apparently joined the Collective, a time-hopping organization that wants to probe the future for ways to return to “1980s-era Poland.”

Now, parts of the game take place in the past, which is undergoing The Change: a cataclysmic event of some description. And when you reach the future, you will see the results, having created a world ravaged by horrifying, leaping demons.

In the trailer, you see Commando playing speed chess with an elderly lady, before Commando goes to Edward Scissorhands and, presumably, harvests his brain. This is because you will need to bring people from the past to the future to help you discover these rifts and survive, although we don’t know much else. Otherwise, most survival and lifting seems to be done with your trusty sidearm, from a typically over-the-shoulder Resi perspective.

And that is your destiny. I will say that, right off the bat, Cronos gives me adequate double-A energy and I think that’s a good thing. It has the kind of name that immediately evokes a 7/10, where it will be a little strange, but it will have some interesting ideas and a fun gimmick.

You can find the game on Steam and it will be released next year. Also, it’s not affiliated with Chronos From The Ashes, an average Soulslike that I reviewed shortly after joining the RPS and has such a similar name that I keep confusing them in my head.