In the midst of a tumultuous week for gaming thanks to Sony killing physical PlayStation Discs and shutting down the PlayStation 3 and PS Vita digital stores, we could all use some new good news for a change.
For horror game fans, Bloober Team is here to provide that good news, as it has revealed a new gameplay dev diary trailer for Cronos: Lazarus, an upcoming DLC expansion for its hit survival horror game, Cronos: The New Dawn.
In this expansion, you get to play as the Warden, a mysterious character who aided the player throughout the base game with new tech and clues for the story's mysteries.
Cronos: Lazarus will take you on a journey where you will get to experience the Warden's past while taking on a secret mission the Collective organization does not want you to complete, even if it has to kill you to prevent its secrets from being uncovered.
According to the dev diary trailer, the DLC expansion will be a lot more action-based than the base game, which played out like a classic survival horror game where you had to carefully manage your resources and check around every corner for enemy ambushes.
As the Warden, you will be granted a host of powerful weapons to blast enemies into bits with and new abilities to improve your chances of survival, like teleportation to avoid incoming attacks or deploying holographic decoys to distract enemies.
Don't take this to mean the DLC will be easy, however. Thanks to these new toys, enemies in Cronos: Lazarus will be more numerous and aggressive to deal with than in the base game, and underestimating them will get you killed fast.
To make matters worse, the Collective has dispatched a hunter to eliminate you similarly to Mr. X from Resident Evil 2, so you will need to master the Warden's arsenal quickly if you hope to live to see another day.
Windows Central's take
The base game of Cronos: The New Dawn was one of our favorite Xbox titles of 2025 and one of Bloober Team's finest games released thus far, along with its excellent Silent Hill 2 remake.
Our long-time survival horror fan, Jez Corden, even gave Cronos: The New Dawn a perfect 5/5 review for its insane story filled with twists to the sci-fi genre, gameplay that was satisfyingly panic-inducing without making your character feel too incompetent or too overpowered, and sublime art direction and performance.
With this new DLC that looks to be taking inspiration from more action-oriented horror titles like Resident Evil 4, we can't wait to jump back into the horrifying world of Cronos and finally learn the history of one of its most memorable characters when Cronos: Lazarus releases during Fall 2026 on Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch 2, and PC via Steam, Epic Games Store, and GOG.
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