Golden Krone Hotel
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Golden Krone Hotel is a gothic horror roguelike. Fight vampires with sunlight or become a vampire yourself and sneak in the shadows. Combines classic turn-based combat with dynamic lighting, an innovative potion system, and fast paced gameplay.
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Join the communityCome hang out with us on Discord!About the GameGolden Krone Hotel is a gothic horror roguelike. Fight vampires with sunlight or become a vampire yourself and sneak in the shadows.You play as Sorina Arobase, a human general made famous for hunting vampires. You're on a mission of revenge to kill Fane, the exiled vampire prince. Armed with your sword, revolver, and spell book, you must battle hordes of blood sucking foes. But first you'll be picking one of 18 disguises that will help you on your journey.Turn-based combat, permadeath, and tough as nails gameplayFully dynamic lighting. Use sunlight as a weapon or snuff out torches to conceal yourselfA potion identification system that encourages risk takingEach run requires you to play as both human and vampire, each with different strengths and weaknesses. Humans are frail spellcasters. Vampires are brawlers with super human speed and strength.Leaderboards, shareable morgue files, and a Weekly challengeOriginal soundtrack by Christopher Loza10 main floors and 22 branchesOver 90 unique monsters40 potions31 spells and 17 vampire abilities18 classesIt's not easy.It's not an action game. While faster paced than other traditional roguelikes, it often requires patience and careful consideration.It's not a long game. This is a coffee-break roguelike. It's no Nethack.It isn't as complex or deep as other roguelikes, nor is it meant to be. There's no skills, no inventory. Magic and items are relatively simple. Instead of these common sources of complexity, Golden Krone Hotel focuses on a handful of innovative mechanics.Select tiles or ASCII4-way or 8-way movementThree difficulty modesGo for a quick run (1-2 hours) or try to clear all optional branches, including the infinite levels of The Underworld!Traditional roguelikes are a ton of fun, but usually come with an alphabet-soup of commands that make them tedious and unintuitive. Golden Krone Hotel has a modern, streamlined interface:A very small number of controls, all of which are rebindableCompletely playable with either mouse or keyboard or controller. Also playable with only the left half of a keyboard by default!Keypress hints on all buttons to help you learn shortcutsTooltips on everythingNo inventory management! Items are picked up automatically and gear is auto-equipped
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MINORVulgat News - 7DRL results and TWO new projects
If you like Golden Krone Hotel, you can thank the Seven Day Roguelike Challenge which spawned it. I've been doing 7DRL for 10 years now. This year I decided to try something a bit strange: a rhythm ga
MINORv1.10.1 - Performance and bug fix update
This update fixes several bugs and balance issues introduced in v1.10 as well as fixing the lag when encountering lots of monsters/obstacles (pretty noticeable sometimes on Steam Deck). {STEAM_CLAN_IM
MINORv1.10 - The Princess Is in Another Castle!
This update includes full Steam Deck support including achievements, solid controls, and controller rumble. Golden Krone Hotel already played well on controller and it's now a great fit for Steam Deck
MINORSteam Deck Support - testing now on experimental branch
Hello, my Kronies! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/26549830/399e833cc4ef71f3fa9f31172cf39fc2e67b4567.jpg Since the release of v1.9, I've actually been pretty busy with work on Leyliner. A few months ago a player i
MINORv1.9 - Goblins Attack! - now live
Thanks to all who joined the v1.9 beta. It's now fully live. v1.9 introduces an explosive new branch plus many new spells and abilities. A huge number of small tweaks and improvements have been includ
MAJORv1.9.1 on experimental - fixed some major issues
This is a followup to the last announcement that v1.9 is live on the experimental branch. Here are a few fixes and tweaks to that: Major Fixed a locking issue when selecting demon blood abilities afte
MINORv1.9 - Goblins Attack! - now on the experimental branch
tldr: You are invited to come beta test the v1.9 release which you can access in Steam through Golden Krone Hotel -> Properties -> Betas -> experimental. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/26549830/72b42dbefcb6a67fa9
MINORv1.8 - Scrub-a-Dub-Sludge
Back again with a sizable update right before Halloween. ALSO. This weekend is the 2021 Roguelike Celebration! I'll be giving a talk on Saturday, October 16th. Golden Krone Hotel is also featured in a
MINORv1.7 Update - Yetis and Tigers and Bears, Oh My!
{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/26549830/219cfd19670f5a4b440e2e614e2c62169cb1545e.jpg Update highlights This update is one of the largest to ever hit GKH. It includes: Graphical improvements: individual potion ico
MINORThe Ally Update
I know I said last July that I would no longer update the game. That's generally true as far as big content updates go, but I've wanted to tackle a few quality of life issues. Quality of life stuff Th
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