You don't see them on postage stamps the way you find suffragette Susan B. Anthony, but the most important women in science fiction – like Ellen Ripley from Alien, or Dana Scully from The X-Files – are worth celebrating. They're slick. They've got a gun! And, for its first original game since releasing the Silent Hill 2 remake in 2024, developer Bloober is paying homage with its female protagonist the Traveler, a woman of seemingly few words and a high tolerance for disembodied flesh.
Though, Cronos: The New Dawn isn't a political statement – "no feminist agenda here," director Jacek Zięba swears to God while we talk during a recent hands-on event in California. "It's not like we hate ourselves, or males," it's just the simple fact that it's "more interesting to have a female protagonist in some strange suit in a sci-fi setting than to put another male one."
