Cronos: The New Dawn
Skip · Action · 2025
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 49, under the fair line, at $59.99. Worth it at $18.36, lower than any Steam price we have tracked since Jul 2025 (lowest $35.99, Jun 2026).
- Length
- 14.7h
- Value
- $4.08/hr
- Reviews
- 88% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Last discount ended
- 9 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 16 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080, or AMD Radeon RX 5700-XT, or Intel Arc A770, 30 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
A whole new breed of survival horror emerges with Cronos: The New Dawn. Survive the brutal wastelands of the future, fight nightmarish merging creatures and jump back in time to harvest souls as you seek to uncover the origins of the apocalypse that wiped out humanity.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
June 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $35.99. It has been discounted 8 times in the 14 months tracked here, typically at 30 percent off, with about 7 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 9 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 13 percent on value. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. The nearest things to it, The Medium ($49.99, scores 46) and Observer: System Redux ($29.99, scores 45), are both worse buys on this math.
23 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2025 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 54 percent of the 601 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
At 14.7 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
98% start to 5% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
169 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 03:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Cronos: The New Dawn scores 49/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2101960/cronos-the-new-dawnReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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