Games like Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown
If Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown is your kind of game, the closest matches are Taking London, ZeroSpace and Settle and Battle: New Empires — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its territory expansion feels grand, atmospheric and challenging. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown: Thrive: Heavy Lies the Crown is a complex city builder, where the fate of your kingdom hinges on your every decision. Explore this medieval land alone or with friends, make tough moral choices and conquer your foes in RTS combat. Will you struggle to survive, or find the strength to Thrive?
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Taking London
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown.
Top pick for Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown.
A love letter to old-school browser-based RTS MMOs – with charming nostalgic pixel graphics, a dash of political satire, and tonnes of strategic tension. Build your empire, face off against other players, and take what’s yours in true British imperial style: by dominating the map.
ZeroSpace
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Second-strongest match for Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown.
ZeroSpace is a sci-fi hybrid RTS game with a story-rich, party-based RPG campaign. As commander of the Protectorate forces, you must upgrade your mothership, build strong relationships with your crew and recruit a formidable army. Navigate the hard choices that will shape humanity's future.
Settle and Battle: New Empires
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown.
A homage to classic real-time strategy games. Gather resources, build an empire, and command powerful armies to conquer the world. Lead six unique tribes, expand your territory, and engage in epic battles with hundreds of units on screen. Dominate in 18 missions and procedurally generated maps!
Kingdom Wars 4
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown.
Ranked #4 for Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown.
It's 1347, the time of the Hundred Years' War. In this historical grand strategy and RTS hybrid you play as one of 200 minor lords across medieval Europe, Africa or Middle East. Rise up to take over your Kingdom and be crowned, then fight to preserve your empire as Black Death descends on Europe.
Stronghold: Warlords
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown.
Ranked #5 for Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown.
Besiege Great Khans, Imperial warlords and Shōgun commanders in Stronghold: Warlords, the latest 'castle sim' from Firefly Studios. Command AI warlords across the battlefield as you build a castle economy and new gunpowder-fuelled siege engines!
Ancient Wars: Medieval Crusades
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown.
New Real Time Strategy Game based on medieval times, where you will control powerful factions and empires, with large-scale epic battles, asymmetric civilizations, unit customization system with RPG elements, dynamic AI, 8K support and much more.
Scourge Of War - Gettysburg
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown.
Ranked #7 for Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown.
Welcome to Scourge of War, a real-time 3D computer game/simulation developed by NorbSoftDev, the company headed by renowned game designer Norb Timpko, designer of Mad Minute Games' acclaimed Take Command series. Scourge of War is the epitome of historical command simulations.
Three Kingdoms: Battle of Generals
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown.
Ranked #8 for Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown.
Three Kingdoms: Battle of Generals is a multi-player online real-time strategy game based on the Three Kingdoms history which recreates realistic landscapes in the world map. Look out for flank attacks and road blocks from your enemies when you explore the open world and build your city.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown at current Steam store prices.
Terraria
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Priced ~64% under Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~82% under Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Stardew Valley
WHY THIS
Priced ~46% under Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Lethal Company
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Priced ~64% under Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~64% under Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown on Steam right now. Shares Action with Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
Bloons TD 6
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown.
The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.
Hollow Knight
WHY THIS
Priced ~46% under Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
People Playground
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Priced ~64% under Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Strategy with Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
The Sims™ 4
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown.
Play with life and discover the possibilities. Unleash your imagination and create a world of Sims that’s wholly unique. Explore and customize every detail from Sims to homes–and much more.
Crusader Kings II
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown.
Explore one of the defining periods in world history in an experience crafted by the masters of Grand Strategy.
Dota Underlords
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Casual with Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown.
Hire a crew and destroy your rivals in this new strategy battler set in the world of Dota. Introducing Season One: Explore White Spire and earn rewards on the Battle Pass. Pick from several different game modes, play on your own or with friends, and take advantage of crossplay on PC and mobile.
Supermarket Together
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown.
The multiplayer supermarket has arrived to your neighbourhood for free! Stock your shop space, unlock perks and franchises, hire employees or chase those pesky shoplifters. The more players, the more action!
Fallout Shelter
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation and RPG with Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown.
Fallout Shelter puts you in control of a state-of-the-art underground Vault from Vault-Tec. Build the perfect Vault, keep your Dwellers happy, and protect them from the dangers of the Wasteland.
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More from Zugalu Entertainment
Other recommendable Steam games by Zugalu Entertainment, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Technolites: Episode 1
WHY THIS
Another title from Zugalu Entertainment, the studio behind Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown. Shares Action and Strategy with Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown.
Technolites is an action packed top down shooter with an epic animated adventure, fully voice acted. The first game in the genre to allow you to build your own ship, with dozens of unique parts and weapons.
Epic Food Fight
WHY THIS
Another title from Zugalu Entertainment, the studio behind Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown. Shares Action and Indie with Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown.
Developed by Zugalu, EPIC FOOD FIGHT is a unique hide and sneak style sniper food fight game. Have you ever wanted to throw a burger at a kid, well in this virtual world we’ve got plenty of burgers and plenty of kids. HAVE AT IT. Dozens of unique enemies to test your skills.
Voxel Scavenger
WHY THIS
Another title from Zugalu Entertainment, the studio behind Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown. Shares Action and Indie with Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown.
Play as a space garbage man kidnapped and trapped aboard a derelict space station in the universe’s garbage dump. Forced to collect materials in order to repair the space station to fly yourself to safety.
Tempered Hue
WHY THIS
Another title from Zugalu Entertainment, the studio behind Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown.
Tempered Hue is a third-person grim-cozy game about running a blacksmith shop. Craft unique tools and items, sell your wares, and explore local caverns to gather crafting materials. Navigate treacherous caverns with your trusty grappler alone or with friends in this blacksmith slice of life sim.
Frequently asked about Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown
- Does Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown run on Steam Deck?
- Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown cost?
- Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown is listed on Steam at 27.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown are Taking London, ZeroSpace, Settle and Battle: New Empires.
- Who developed Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown?
- Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown was developed by Zugalu Entertainment and published by PlaySide.
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