Golden 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 gameplay
Fully dynamic lighting. Use sunlight as a weapon or snuff out torches to conceal yourself
A potion identification system that encourages risk taking
Each 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 challenge
Original soundtrack by Christopher Loza
10 main floors and 22 branches
Over 90 unique monsters
40 potions
31 spells and 17 vampire abilities
18 classes
It'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 ASCII
4-way or 8-way movement
Three difficulty modes
Go 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 rebindable
Completely 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 shortcuts
Tooltips on everything
No inventory management!
Items are picked up automatically and gear is auto-equipped
Steam
