Bloober Team’s latest horror adventure Cronos: The New Dawn surprised everyone with a Nintendo Switch 2 port earlier this year. Now, the team has just surprised everyone again with a native Steam Deck version of their grotesque Polish horror game.
Announced in a Steam Blog post, Bloober Team confirmed a new version of its horror game specifically for Linux gamers on Valve’s powerful handheld. Just like Larian’s port of Baldur’s Gate 3 to the handheld, this version should perform better than running the Windows version through the Proton compatibility layer.
“At launch, Cronos arrived as our latest survival horror title with full Steam Deck verification—but that’s not all,” the team told fans on Steam.
“Today, we’ve released a native build of the game for Steam’s handheld console, which means even better performance on this platform.”
Considering how close the game’s native Steam Deck port is to the game’s traditional launch, it seems that this version of the game has been in development for a while. After all, it took Larian years to bring their game natively to the platform, although it did come with major performance boons.
Alongside the Linux port of Cronos: The New Dawn, Bloober Team is seemingly working on even more ports behind the scenes. While unconfirmed, evidence points to new versions of Silent Hill 2 Remake coming as the game’s PS5 exclusivity ends later this month.
With yet another native Linux port of a substantial release now available on Valve’s handheld, it seems that the Steam Deck’s popularity is making waves throughout the industry. While many games have released specific graphics presets for the handheld, few have bothered to release native ports running on Linux, but that tune is slowly changing.
Unfortunately, it will still be a couple of years until Valve releases a new handheld, but with the upcoming Fremont SteamOS console on the way, it seems that the industry is making space for a future built on Valve’s technology.
