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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.

Golden Krone Hotel is a traditional roguelike, turn-based and rogue-like game developed and published by Vulgat.
Released on October 26th 2017 is available in English on Windows, MacOS and Linux.

It has received 312 reviews of which 298 were positive and 14 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.7 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 9.99€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Golden Krone Hotel into these genres:

Traditional Roguelike Turn-Based Rogue-like Dungeon Crawler Perma Death Vampire Difficult Pixel Graphics Gothic Horror Strategy Adventure Procedural Generation RPG CRPG Indie Singleplayer Turn-Based Combat Retro Turn-Based Strategy

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Windows
  • OS *: Windows 7 or higher
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Storage: 500 MB available space
MacOS
  • OS: OS X (64-bit)
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Storage: 500 MB available space
Linux
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Storage: 500 MB available space

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Jan. 2026
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 get their own abilities).. this all adds up to a constant tug-o-war between human / vamp form I really like in practice. You're always wondering if you want to waste a soul elixir to turn back human or just trudge on further, or panicking because you don't have an elixir and it's almost daybreak.. there's a timer that always ticks down bringing you closer to vamping out so you can't stay human forever. I really like how they implemented this mechanic, balancing your time between both forms is very important to success in this game which makes GKH stand apart from other roguelikes just by itself.. but there's a lot of other cool stuff going on under the hood. This isn't a super deep, complex roguelike that'll take you 500H just to beat once, but it has very engaging, fun and tactical gameplay with enough depth to keep it all together.. the gameplay loop of this one is probably one of the best I've seen in the genre and it always leaves you ready to start a new run when you die.. which you will be doing a LOT by the way as this game does not pull its punches. I'd give this one a solid 9.5/10, it's a phenomenal game.
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Dec. 2025
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.
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Oct. 2025
Good game. Really cool mechanics, approachable controls, nice animations, varied levels. The main unique mechanic is you turn into a vampire after X turns (or you can do it early if you want). You can change back with a common item. I like routing out when I want to be a vampire and when I want to be human, and I like how it changes up my playstyle as I go. I love the item identification and I think it should be in every game. I like how many areas there are, even though most of them are super deadly. The game is fairly short, which helps. I totally suck at the game but I like it
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Oct. 2025
This is a very pleasant and simple traditional roguelike. It takes many of its levels and enemies from other traditional roguelike classics, but adds interesting vampirism and daytime cycle mechanics to the formula, which give it a distinct character and individuality. Straightforward controls, no inventory management, no wands to worry about, best equipment autoequips, and the usual potion identifying minigame is much more manageable due to the game showing you three potion types that any particular unidentified potion could possibly be. Fun and easy to git gud at, at least on the normal difficulty. An easy recommendation, especially at its price. Some negatives: the lorebooks, while numerous, are not very interesting; it is sometimes difficult to see items behind other items, for example, potions behind window panes along the bottom of the map; normal difficulty feels too easy after a few runs (i feel i could get long winstreaks pretty easily), while "despair" difficulty feels too hard (only won once after dozens of attempts) -- i wish there was something in-between; and despite there being a website that keeps track of all the high scores, including weeklies, getting a high score does not seem very fun: once you have a good enough character, you can seemingly grind for score forever.
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April 2025
This game is a hidden treasure. A perfect execution of a traditional roguelike. Even people who don't know turn-based roguelikes can easily get into it. Optimization is also relatively well done. It's a lot of fun to break through randomly generated dungeons. You can have a lot of fun with relatively little focus. Definitely recommend.
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Golden Krone Hotel is currently priced at 9.99€ on Steam.

Golden Krone Hotel is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 9.99€ on Steam.

Golden Krone Hotel received 298 positive votes out of a total of 312 achieving a rating of 8.74.
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Golden Krone Hotel was developed and published by Vulgat.

Golden Krone Hotel is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Golden Krone Hotel is playable and fully supported on MacOS.

Golden Krone Hotel is playable and fully supported on Linux.

Golden Krone Hotel is a single-player game.

There is a DLC available for Golden Krone Hotel. Explore additional content available for Golden Krone Hotel on Steam.

Golden Krone Hotel does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

Golden Krone Hotel does not support Steam Remote Play.

Golden Krone Hotel is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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Vulgat
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Vulgat
Release 26 Oct 2017
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