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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. Combines classic turn-based combat with dynamic lighting, an innovative potion system, and fast paced gameplay.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via SteamSpy as of 2026-05-14.
“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…”
— a player, Steam review · 20 hrs played“No”
— a player, Steam review · 0 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-08-02 21:42 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Vulgat 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
v1.10.1 - 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). One big UI iss
v1.10 - 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
Steam Deck Support - testing now on experimental branch
Hello, my Kronies! Since the release of v1.9 , I've actually been pretty busy with work on Leyliner . A few months ago a player informed me that the controls were completely borked on Steam Deck. I or
v1.9 - 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
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-14.
| Genres | Adventure, Indie, RPG, Strategy |
| Player tags | Traditional Roguelike · Turn-Based · Rogue-like · Dungeon Crawler · Perma Death · Vampire · Difficult · Pixel Graphics · Gothic · Horror · Strategy · Adventure (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Trading Cards · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 48 |
| Estimated owners | 20,000 – 50,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | http://www.goldenkronehotel.com/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 or higher Memory: 4 GB RAM Storage: 500 MB available space