Silent Hill 2 Remake Devs Talk About Their New Game Cronos: The New Dawn

Bloober Team, the developers of Silent Hill 2 Remake, has revealed their new project, Cronos: The New Dawn. In a recent interview, the developers shared how the new game would differ from the remake and their future plans for game development.

Shortly after the release of Silent Hill 2 Remake, Director and Designer Wojciech Piejko said (via Gamespot): "We don't want to make a similar game." Although Silent Hill 2 and Cronos: The New Dawn were partly developed at the same time, different studio teams were in charge of them. Wojciech Piejko humorously said that the studio wants the games to feel like "different pizzas with different toppings – both delicious." The new project is meant to prove that the studio can build its own game from scratch.

Cronos: The New Dawn is Bloober Team's first original survival horror. It follows the story of The Traveler, who needs to travel to the past of communist Poland around the 1980s to rescue a VIP and transfer them to the future devastated by a pandemic, where they might be able to help. As shared by the developers, the game is inspired by Netflix's Dark, a grim series with an elaborate plot that involves a mystery concerning various periods of time.

The new title is meant to be a new phase of the team's evolution. Director and Producer Jacek Zieba shared that work on the Silent Hill Remake had contributed to the creation of the new project: "It helped in the case of technology, to jump from first-person to the third-person camera [with] ranged combat and other stuff. So the basis [for Cronos] when we started in pre-production was there [thanks to] the Silent Hill team." However, the developers said that the team wished to go in a different direction with the new title, partly to avoid comparisons with the remake.

The devs shared that they would like to continue working in the genre of horror games: "We want to be a horror company," Jacek Zieba said. "We want to find our niche, and we think we found our niche, so now we just – let's evolve with it." He continued, reminiscing the studio's 2016 release of Layers of Fear: "And how that happens is more complex, but it also happens organically in a way, like with Layers of Fear, people in the studio were like, 'Okay, we made some shitty games before, but we [can] evolve."

Cronos: The New Dawn, "where Eastern European brutalism meets retro-futurist technology," will be released in 2025. As for the Silent Hill 2 Remake, which was released on October 8, it has been warmly received by the audience, gathering Overwhelmingly Positive reviews on Steam, with 95% positive reviews out of more than 14,000. The game evoked a lot of fan activity, with many players editing its Wikipedia page and creating unusual mods that remove fog, the inherent Silent Hill element, from the game world.

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