Chronos: Before the Ashes

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Chronos: Before the Ashes is an atmospheric RPG that chronicles a hero’s lifelong quest to save their homeland from a great evil. Grow wiser, stronger and more powerful as you explore the depths of the mysterious labyrinth.

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303 reviews
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Release date:
01 December 2020
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Recent Steam reviews:
Mixed
All Steam reviews:
Mixed (303)
User tags*:AdventureAction-AdventureStylizedCombatSingleplayer

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Description

Chronos: Before the Ashes is an atmospheric RPG that chronicles a hero’s lifelong quest to save their homeland from a great evil. Grow wiser, stronger and more powerful as you explore the depths of the mysterious labyrinth. But beware, the labyrinth takes a heavy toll – each time your hero dies, they lose a year of their life!

Adventure RPG - Refreshing combination of Adventure Game elements and RPG mechanics.

Deep Combat – A variety of weapons, abilities and powers are available to the player in the pursuit of their quest.

Unique Aging Mechanic – Every time the player dies they age one year. Players must adapt to their advancing age as they progress their character; starting the game young, nimble and quick, and ending wise and more attuned to magic.

Recommended system requirements

minimum*

Requirement 1:
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS *:
Windows 7 / 8 / 10 64 bit
Processor:
AMD FX-8320 (3,5 GHz) / Intel i5-4690K (3,5 GHz) or better
Memory:
4 GB RAM
Graphics:
GeForce GTX 660 / Radeon R7 370 with 2 GB VRAM
DirectX:
Version 11
Storage:
8 GB available space

recommended*

Requirement 1:
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS *:
Windows 7 / 8 / 10 64 bit
Processor:
AMD FX-8320 (3,5 GHz) / Intel i5-4690K (3,5 GHz) or better
Memory:
8 GB RAM
Graphics:
AMD Radeon RX 480 / NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 with 4 GB VRAM
DirectX:
Version 11
Storage:
8 GB available space

User reviews

Olivier
Recommended | 17 Feb 2026
8.3h played

As far as souls-like go, Chronos is a very simple and passable rendition of the formulae. You only have a choice of a few different weapons and power-ups and the only real game-play innovation is the whole aging-upon-death mechanic, which sadly ends up being very underutilised. What stands out to me the most are the puzzle-led exploration, reminescent of something like Resident Evil, where you find items and gotta

Helpful: 0
Mr wyrmwood
Recommended | 05 Jan 2026
25.8h played

Picked this up in a sale, purely because its related to Remnant and I loved that game. Other reviews seemed to say it was a very short and quite easy souls-like, so I thought I'd blast through for the lore. Ended up really enjoying it, it has a pretty heavy adventure game element to it, puzzle's are fairly similar to the old Resident evil game's and a few were very cool and quite original. Got stuck quite a few

Helpful: 10
Frederikholm
Not recommended | 15 Jan 2026
7.0h played

Would be decent assuming it was cheap. However, they implemented achievements for new game plus and forgot to add a new game plus mode to the game. I don't think that is okay.

Helpful: 13