Bloober Team hasn’t nailed down the final release date just yet for the upcoming Cronos: Lazarus expansion for Cronos: The New Dawn. However, the devteam has released a new gameplay video that takes a deep dive into Pathfinder’s new skills, weapons, and threats.
Building on what players loved about the gameplay for Cronos: The New Dawn, the Lazarus expansion takes it even further, aiming to deliver a “more visceral and intense style”. That includes the new abilities available to Pathfinder, including:
- Teleportation: Allows players to instantly teleport across a designated area, helping them outmaneuver groups of enemies. It can also be used during exploration to navigate distorted environments and reach otherwise inaccessible areas to discover hidden resources.
- Decoy: Allows the Pathfinder to leave a ghostly copy of himself behind while moving to a new position as an invisible to enemies.
- Gladius (new weapon): A new and much more powerful weapon wielded by the Pathfinder, featuring a higher fire rate and piercing bullets that deal increased damage.
Cronos: Lazarus sees players return to the wastelands of New Dawn as the once-loyal Pathfinder in the process of transforming into the Warden from the base game. Isolated in the Terminal and severed from the Collective, he devotes every waking moment to awakening a lost Essence that he refuses to let fade. His sanctuary has unfortunately been compromised, as a new kind of hunter has been deployed with one directive: to find and eliminate The Warden.
The expansion is scheduled for release in Fall 2026 for PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store, the PlayStation 5, the Xbox Series, and the Nintendo Switch 2.