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OST

Golden Krone Hotel now has an original soundtrack by Christopher Loza! You might know Christopher from the KeeperRL soundtrack, but he also made our delightful chiptune title track and trailer music. We've been working on redoing all the game's music for a few months and it's finally done.

If, however, you want to switch things up or just get nostalgic for the old music (which has a more ambient horror focus), you can toggle back and forth between both soundtracks in the Options menu.

Despair mode

Even if you're not quite ready for the game to get harder, I know you will be eventually. Despair is a new unlockable, unfair, and unforgiving difficulty mode. It comes with its own redone title screen featuring a gnarly remix, blood moon, and custom font. I have to be honest: this is easily the most badass thing in the game.

Visual tweaks

Stained glass has been toned down and looks less like "unicorn puke." Menus have been visually reworked and made Fancy!

There's also a good number of bug fixes. Thanks to everyone who reported them!

Changelog:

• The game now features an original soundtrack by Christopher Loza. The old soundtrack can be switched in as well.
• New difficulty: DESPAIR MODE
• The credits menu has been totally reworked into a "crawl" and now displays after a win (also available from Options)
• Reworked menus
• Stained glass no longer looks like "unicorn puke"
• Difficulty can now be selected with keyboard (left/right)
• Drawing ASCII windows differently depending on their orientation
• Debug menu has been made more difficult to accidentally access (now requires '~' + 'debug').
• Accessing the debug menu (or running console commands) prevents a run from having a morgue file saved. This should prevent at least one category of "cheat" morgue files from popping up on the leaderboards.
• Fixed an issue with sliding on ice diagonally
• Fixed a morgue display issue when dying of starvation
• Fixed a major bug where reading a book the same turn one dies turns you immortal.
• Any unbound commands (which had their keys stolen from another remap) are randomly assigned keys, which should prevent a bug where the game wouldn't start with unbound keys.
• Fixed an issue with potion deduction. You should be able to deduce identities more often.
• Fixed a game locking bug with Examine mode in the tutorial. Also now easier to escape from menus in the tutorial.
• Fixed an issue with MIASMA that wasn't hurting enemies unless they were directly hit.
• Fixed an ugly display issue with spell icons on Grimoire menu