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Wes Fenlon

Cronos: The New Dawn's sci-fi survival horror channels RE4 and Dead Space, but it took Bloober awhile to realize it 'subconsciously' is also a game about Covid

Cronos: The New Dawn sci-fi survival horror.

Jacek Zięba reflexively reaches for his temple as he recalls the moment he realized Bloober's sci-fi horror game, set in alt-history Poland after a deadly outbreak, was about Covid.

"We didn't want to make a game about the pandemic," the game director says. "When we started the story, it just worked for us. And at some point in the production, it was like, damn… we made something about the pandemic."

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