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Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown cover art

Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown

Zugalu Entertainment · PlaySide · 2025-06-18

Steam

ActionAdventureCasualIndieRPGSimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative

Releases: Nov 06, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

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?

1
playing now
58%
positive of 453 reviews
Mixed
steam rating
500,000–1,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$27.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 02:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 47% of 10,791 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 9.1k–20k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 453 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$11.52-59%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $8.79 at IndieGala Store (2025-06-19)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $27.99 · on sale 76 of 102 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

802026-08-06 22:00 — 4 players2026-08-07 06:00 — 3 players2026-08-07 14:00 — 6 players2026-08-07 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-08 06:00 — 2 players2026-08-08 14:00 — 6 players2026-08-08 22:00 — 6 players2026-08-09 06:00 — 2 players2026-08-09 14:00 — 6 players2026-08-09 22:00 — 1 players2026-08-10 06:00 — 4 players2026-08-10 14:00 — 6 players2026-08-10 22:00 — 8 players2026-08-11 06:00 — 2 players2026-08-11 14:00 — 3 players2026-08-12 22:00 — 3 players2026-08-14 06:00 — 2 players2026-08-15 13:00 — 3 players2026-08-16 21:00 — 4 players2026-08-18 05:00 — 1 players2026-08-19 12:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 20:00 — 2 players2026-08-22 03:00 — 2 players2026-08-23 11:00 — 1 players2026-08-24 19:00 — 1 players2026-08-26 03:00 — 1 players2026-08-27 10:00 — 4 players2026-08-28 18:00 — 3 players2026-08-30 02:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$27.99$7.232024-11-052026-08-252024-11-05 — best price $26.592024-11-14 — best price $27.992024-12-13 — best price $22.392025-01-11 — best price $27.992025-01-23 — best price $17.192025-02-22 — best price $20.622025-03-31 — best price $27.992025-05-24 — best price $22.292025-06-23 — best price $9.802025-07-11 — best price $22.292025-07-25 — best price $10.212025-08-11 — best price $13.992025-08-21 — best price $20.572025-08-29 — best price $27.992025-09-08 — best price $10.212025-10-06 — best price $27.152025-10-19 — best price $22.292025-10-29 — best price $20.572025-11-20 — best price $27.992025-11-24 — best price $10.392025-12-18 — best price $10.212026-01-13 — best price $22.292026-02-02 — best price $22.292026-02-21 — best price $27.992026-03-10 — best price $13.692026-03-26 — best price $27.992026-04-17 — best price $23.212026-04-28 — best price $12.282026-05-09 — best price $24.782026-05-18 — best price $13.852026-05-24 — best price $22.292026-05-30 — best price $20.962026-06-06 — best price $11.542026-06-20 — best price $20.962026-06-30 — best price $11.442026-07-22 — best price $27.992026-07-31 — best price $10.272026-08-10 — best price $20.692026-08-14 — best price $24.762026-08-25 — best price $11.52
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

32
achievements tracked
55.7%
earned "Stepping into Nysamor"
3.2%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPCo-opOnline Co-opFamily Sharing

6 supported languages: English, French, Simplified Chinese, German, Spanish - Spain, Russian

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1360%32

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

PvPRTSCasualFantasySandboxWargameTacticalColony SimManagementCity Builder

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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