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Elie Gould

'We have become experts at putting Poland into games': Cronos: The New Dawn is set in a district of Kraków simply because Bloober wanted to 'show our crib to the audience'

Traveller looking at a corpse.

Cronos: The New Dawn takes place in a post-apocalyptic version of the Kraków district of Nowa Huta during the 1980s. It seems like an oddly specific location, that is, until you actually ask the devs over at Bloober Team why they decided to set their upcoming survival horror game here.

"It's a district where I was born and raised," the lead writer, Grzegorz Like, tells me. "When I showed my mom the trailer, she was like, 'Why did you do that? This was such a nice place, and you destroyed it all.' But we chose Nowa Huta not because of ego reasons, but to, you know, show our crib to the audience.

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