Unlock every achievement in Cronos: The New Dawn with this step-by-step guide. Covers collectibles, essences, endings, hardcore mode, and New Game+ tips for 100% completion.
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Overview
If you’re grinding Cronos: The New Dawn and aiming for a full 100% completion, this guide breaks down every achievement, collectible, and secret. From your first standard playthrough to Hardcore mode and New Game+, we’ll cover everything you need to grab all trophies without missing anything.
Pro Tip: Prioritize inventory upgrades early. The limited slots will slow you down, and you’ll find yourself backtracking way too often.
Story Achievements
Story achievements unlock naturally as you progress. You’ll encounter multiple narrative checkpoints tied to bosses, essences, and decisions.
- Quick Combustion – Linked to early storyline anomalies.
- Temporal Point of Destination – Earned after critical time-shifting events.
- Ascension – Obtained late-game as part of the main mission arc.
These achievements are unmissable and tied directly to story progression.
Gameplay Style & Essences
Essences are a major mechanic in Cronos. They’re earned through the story or extracted from Fallen Travelers. Many achievements revolve around them.
- Togetherness – Collect Lidia Marzec, Marcel Marzec, and Krzysztof Marzec in your phylactery at once.
- The Orthodox – Finish a Hardcore run with only the story-required essences: Edward Wisniewski, Artur Baryka, Dawid Zybert.
- Punks Not Dead! – Hardcore-exclusive essence achievement.
Ending Variations
- Ending A – Shoot Pathfinder.
- Ending B – Spare Pathfinder.
- Ending C – Available only on New Game+ (choose “Begin anew”).
Hardcore Playthrough
Once you beat the game, you’ll unlock Hard Mode and New Game+.
- Shell Not Compromised – Survive Hardcore. Enemies hit harder and checkpoints are limited.
- Free From All the Scars – Exclusive to New Game+. Requires unlocking Ending C.
With your weapons and upgrades carried over, Hardcore becomes way easier than your blind first run.
Crafting & Upgrades
Crafting is tied to survival and several achievements:
- To Pave the Path – Fabricate 8 out of 9 possible items (ammo, fuel, healing patches).
- The Praetorian – Fully upgrade at least one weapon (you don’t need all 7 maxed).
- Forged in Fire – Fully upgrade your Temporal Shell (requires 36 cores).
Combat Achievements
Most combat trophies are skill-based but can be farmed during boss fights:
- Fire. Spreading. – Burn multiple enemies with the Torch.
- Efficiency Discipline – Line up two enemies and kill them with a charged Sword shot.
- The Anvil of the Collective – Use the Hammer’s wide blast to wipe out Orphans.
- The Annihilator – Use the Arbalest for explosive multi-kills.
- Don’t Let Them Merge – Burn Orphan corpses before they combine.
- Raging Bull – Land melee finishers on Orphans.
Collectibles
There are four main collectible types tied to achievements:
- Cats (10 total) – Each one rewards items or cores (The Catfinder).
- Comic Books (10 total) – Optional notes scattered around (Unadulterated Joy).
- Travelogs (27 total) – Lore entries, easy to track along story routes (The Archivist).
- Valuables (35 total) – Sell 15 for Energy, but finding more boosts upgrades (The Contribution).
- The Archivist: There are [27 travelogs] found throughout the game. They look like little radar dishes with green lights on them, and these regularly appear along the story path and near upgrade stations, making them easy to locate.
- The Boon of Relics: There are [7 weapons] found throughout the game. Most are found along the story path, but a few are in optional rooms.
- The Contribution: Valuables are items that can be sold for Energy, used to upgrade your weapons. While you only need to sell 15, there are 35 to be found throughout the game. With the Lidia Marzec essence in your phylactery, you will get an extra 10% Energy for every valuable you sell.
- The Preserver: There are [5 fallen Travelers] found throughout the game. These are Traveler bodies that you can extract an Essence from, which give you certain upgrades.
Efficiency Tips for 100%
- Standard Run – Focus on collectibles + Togetherness achievement.
- Hardcore Run – Go minimal with essences for The Orthodox.
- New Game+ Run – Wrap up crafting, full upgrades, and Ending C.
By the end of your third cycle, you’ll have every achievement checked off.
✅ That’s the full roadmap for Cronos: The New Dawn achievements. Long sessions, but with NG+ and upgrades, it gets smoother each run.
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