From PlaySide Studios:
Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown offers players the chance to rule their land however they please, thanks to its impactful decision-making and real-time combat. The full 1.0 release incorporates a variety of features and quality-of-life upgrades developed during the game’s Early Access period, including full Steam Achievement support, a major visual fidelity overhaul, new militia units, citizen revolts, new town buildings and structures, the new ‘Influence’ system, difficulty settings, the option to disable narrative dialogue, and much more.
Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown blends the depth of city-building with high-stakes, real-time combat and decision-making. Player choices dictate how the Kingdom grows, the alliances that are forged, and the enemies that are made. The game offers a single-player experience for solo play or the ability to play in up to four-player multiplayer. But choose wisely – in Nysamor, every choice has consequences, and these consequences can dictate the very fate of the Kingdom.
Key Features:
- Build and develop a Kingdom across multiple provinces, while managing resources and the needs of citizens.
- Collect and harvest resources and build a legacy through effective planning and advancement through a detailed tech tree.
- Place city structures, set up road networks, build defenses, and assemble a powerful military to exert the Kingdom’s will.
- Secure the Kingdom’s reputation through choices in the narrative event system across three distinct Acts, which ask players to make tough decisions that can permanently alter the lives of its people, the settlement, and the world around it.
- Choose whether your reign is Benevolent or Tyrannical. A Benevolent ruler shows compassion, while a Tyrannical ruler takes pleasure in exploitation. Each path offers unique gameplay advantages and challenges, and an aesthetic impact on your Kingdom.
- Adventure in single-player for solo play or in up to four-player co-op or PVP multiplayer.
- Siege castles, plunder trade routes, or confront fantastical Waelgrim creatures in RTS combat, alongside or against other players.
