Golden Krone Hotel
Vulgat · 2017 · Vampires, Traditional Roguelike, Turn-Based, Roguelike, Dungeon Crawler
PC
Very Positive95% · 312
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About Golden Krone Hotel
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.
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:
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
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What Steam players say
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Players praise this roguelike for its innovative mechanics, streamlined interface, and impressive variety within its systems—particularly how different disguises, grimoires, and stat choices create unique runs despite the focused scope. The game is frequently recommended as an excellent entry point to the genre that balances accessibility with tactical depth and engaging flavor. Some criticism emerges around the limited variety itself and a time-gated progression system, though the core gameplay loop of collecting tools and solving puzzle-like character combinations keeps players engaged.
This is a fantastic roguelike with some truly unique and innovative mechanics that make it a novel standout in the genre. It simplifies a lot of the typical monotony of going through menus in favor of immediately equipping better equipment when you pick it up and auto selling inferior equipment to the merchant as well. The systems are very streamlined but at the same time every run feels completely different due to the different disguises giving totally different foundations for characters which will then be further differentiated by which grimoires you find for spells, the stat choices you make leveling up, which potions you find, etc. Juggling human and vampire form is a genuine task, there are many benefits to staying a vamp like being physically superior, healing off of enemy blood (so combat leads directly to your heal condition), not needing to worry about the limited food resource, not having the vampires attack you in the hotel, etc.. but all the humans will attack you, your HP slowly drains if you don't have blood, sunlight will RUIN you (and the game has a day / night cycle with looots of windows in the hotel) and you lose all access to your spells (though vamps can g…4 found this helpful
An excellent, approachable roguelike that does not sacrifice dynamism or tactical depth. Not the largest variety, but what variety that is there combined with the many classes is enough to sustain many hours of fun.3 found this helpful
Quite simple and lean roguelike, pretty easy (at least on normal) but still requires careful play, mechanics are reduced to its essentials, each run is short and can be completed in 2 hours or less. Based on those characteristics I didn't think I would enjoy it much, but the short runs won me over and I'm having fun trying out different classes, it's a great roguelike to pass time when you're not in the mood to jump into something more complex or that demands more time. Quite enjoyable soundtrack too.1 found this helpful
If you have an interest in traditional roguelikes I couldn't think of a better place to start. Some elements are simplified but there is still enough crunchy depth here to get your teeth into and most importantly it plays beautifully. Once you've mastered this; check out Infra Arcana, Sil Q and ToME.1 found this helpful
a solid roguelike
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