Hello everyone!

These past few months, I've been working on and off on a major new version for Hotel Demonica.

The big obvious change you can't miss are the dungeons now being first-person 3D, in the style of old-school dungeon crawlers! It makes them quite a bit more interesting and immersive, don't you think?

I always wanted Hotel Demonica's dungeons to be 3D, but my initial third-person attempts weren't working out and I was running out of time before the release, so I cut that feature and used 2D dungeons instead. A similar story happened a decade ago when I made Tower of Ordal and I just couldn't leave it at that. I initially resisted the idea of using a first-person perspective with grid-based movement, thinking people may expect a hardcore dungeon crawler like Etrian Odyssey when Hotel Demonica is a lot more story-based, but as you can see, I couldn't resist the appeal. The game is just so much better this way!

The second big change eagle-eyed readers may notice are the keyboard shortcut icons attached to every button. That's right, the game is now fully playable with keyboard and/or gamepad! To prove it, I completed an entire playthrough on the SteamDeck:

The mouse-only controls are still available, but now you have more options!

In addition to those two big major changes, I've been adding quite a lot of fixes and polish since release. I've tweaked the script a bit, made the reward screen faster, fixed a few audio effects and added a display for known enemies affinities:

All in all, this new version is a huge improvement over the previous one. Give the game a try if you didn't before!

I hope you will enjoy your stay in this deadly resort! ;)