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Cronos: Lazarus DLC Puts Players in the Warden’s Boots This Fall

The expansion shifts Cronos toward combat-led encounters by giving the wounded Warden new traversal powers and tools to fight a tailored, adaptive hunter.

Overview

  • Bloober Team officially announced Cronos: Lazarus on Saturday, June 6, 2026, published a first trailer, and set a fall 2026 release window.
  • The DLC centers on the Warden, the former Pathfinder, and explores fragments of his past as he pursues a secret mission the Collective must never learn.
  • Gameplay shifts from precision stealth to faster, more aggressive combat and adds explicit new abilities including teleportation, temporary invisibility, and a deployable decoy.
  • Players will face a newly engineered, highly adaptive pursuer designed to match the Warden’s strength and force large, cinematic encounters.
  • Bloober frames Lazarus as a new chapter-sized DLC rather than a full sequel, a quick follow-up to The New Dawn that expands the game world while the studio continues work on other horror projects.