Free games like Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown
Below are 9 free-to-play Steam games similar to Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown, ranked by player overlap and content similarity. No purchase or Steam login required to view the list. Every pick is a full free-to-play title — not a demo, trial, or time-limited giveaway. imho.run's catalogue refreshes daily, so newly free or newly popular titles surface here without manual editing.
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Magic Archery
Free-to-play alternative to Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown — no purchase or trial window. 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.
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Landfall Archives
Free-to-play alternative to Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown — no purchase or trial window. 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!
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SuchArt: Creative Space
Free-to-play alternative to Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown — no purchase or trial window. 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!
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The Sims™ 4
Free-to-play alternative to Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown — no purchase or trial window. 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.
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Crusader Kings II
Free-to-play alternative to Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown — no purchase or trial window. 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.
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Dota Underlords
Free-to-play alternative to Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown — no purchase or trial window. 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.
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Supermarket Together
Free-to-play alternative to Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown — no purchase or trial window. 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!
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Fallout Shelter
Free-to-play alternative to Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown — no purchase or trial window. 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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Three Kingdoms: Battle of Generals
Free-to-play alternative to Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown — no purchase or trial window. 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.