Choose Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown
Choose Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown if you want an Action and Casual experience. On Steam, it's the newer release (2025) and ships with the modern feature baseline. Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown launched in 2025.
Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown vs Refuge
Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown and Refuge both land in Strategy, Indie, Adventure on Steam, which is why they keep getting compared. The comparison below is built from each game's Steam metadata — release year, genres, categories, Steam Deck status, price, and review score — refreshed daily by imho.run's scraper. Headline differences: Both share Strategy, Indie, Adventure on Steam. Refuge (2022) is 3 years older than Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown (2025). Refuge is currently ~82% cheaper on Steam than Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown (4.99 USD vs. 27.99 USD). No login or purchase needed — scroll for the full table, the verdict FAQ, and links to ranked similar games for both titles.
Which should you pick?
Choose Refuge
Choose Refuge if you want the Tracked Controller Support and VR Only side of the pairing. On Steam, it's currently about 82% cheaper on the Steam Store. Refuge launched in 2022.
Both Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown and Refuge sit in Strategy, Indie, and Adventure on Steam and both list Multi-player, Online PvP, and Online Co-op, so either pick lands in the same broad neighborhood. Use the side-by-side table for the feature view, or follow the "Games like" links below to see ranked alternatives for either title.
Side-by-side comparison
 Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown |  Refuge | |
|---|---|---|
| Released | 2025 | 2022 |
| Genres | Action, Strategy, Indie, Adventure, Simulation, RPG, Casual | Strategy, Indie, Adventure, Simulation, RPG |
| Platforms | Windows | Windows |
| Steam Deck | Deck Playable | Unrated |
| Price | 27.99 USD | 4.99 USD |
| Steam reviews | 58.1% positive (227 reviews) | 2 reviews |
| Multiplayer | Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op | Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op |
| Developers | Zugalu Entertainment | CAAMS |
Side by side
- Both share Strategy, Indie, Adventure on Steam.
- Refuge (2022) is 3 years older than Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown (2025).
- Refuge is currently ~82% cheaper on Steam than Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown (4.99 USD vs. 27.99 USD).
- Both support cooperative play.
- Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown is Deck Playable on Steam Deck; Refuge has no Deck rating yet.
Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown vs Refuge — FAQ
- Should I play Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown or Refuge first?
- If you want chronology, Refuge (2022) came out before Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown (2025). If neither is a sequel to the other, order doesn't really matter — start with whichever fits your current mood, since both share enough on Steam to make either a reasonable opener.
- Are Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown and Refuge similar?
- They overlap on Strategy, Indie, Adventure on Steam, so the catalogue groups them together — but "similar" depends on the specific mechanics. Use the genre + category rows above to decide whether the overlap matches what drew you to the one you've already played.
- Do both Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown and Refuge have co-op?
- Yes — both list a co-op category on Steam. Specifics differ: Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown ships Online Co-op, Co-op; Refuge ships Online Co-op, Co-op.
- Does Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown run on Steam Deck?
- Yes — Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown is rated Deck Playable by Valve. Refuge doesn't have a Deck rating yet, so its Deck behaviour is currently unverified.