Games Like Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown

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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Songs of Syx

94% 👍 OF 9.3K
About This Game

Songs of Syx is a fantasy city-builder with vast battles simulating thousands of citizens and soldiers. Start off as a small village and build, scheme, and fight your way towards a mighty empire. The mechanics are deep and true to life, where tiny events can spiral into the collapse of kingdoms. 

Player reviews say you can…

  • …push your research into the negatives and end up in real research debt.
  • …run an asylum without feeding inmates, then have a cannibal butcher turn the bodies into food and leather for your economy.
  • …conquer neighbors on the world map, then feel it back home when every soldier you draft stops being a worker.
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Anno 2205™

70% 👍 OF 6.4K
About This Game

In Anno 2205™, you join humankind‘s next step into the future with the promise to build a better tomorrow. You conquer Earth, establishing rich, bustling cities and grand industrial complexes, but to secure the prosperity of your people, you must travel into space.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Build on the Moon
  • …Manage Earth and Arctic
  • …Connect Regional Supplies
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Farthest Frontier

86% 👍 OF 25K
About This Game

Protect and guide your people as you forge a town from untamed wilderness at the edge of the known world. Harvest raw materials, hunt, fish and farm to survive. Produce crafted items to trade, consume, equip and fight with as you battle for your survival against the elements and outside threats.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Plan Crop Rotations
  • …Stockpile Before Winter
  • …Follow Goods Across Town
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Manor Lords

84% 👍 OF 91K
About This Game

Manor Lords is a medieval strategy game featuring in-depth city building, large-scale tactical battles, and complex economic and social simulations. Rule your lands as a medieval lord – the seasons pass, the weather changes, and cities rise and fall.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Lay Out Gridless Towns
  • …Add Gardens To Homes
  • …Manage Seasonal Supply
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Industries of Titan

62% 👍 OF 1.6K
About This Game

Create a sprawling industrial city. Compete with other rival corporations on Titan for resources, territory, and power. Seek victory via technology, influence, warfare, or the wealth extracted from your citizens. Stake your claim to the Industries of Titan in this innovative sim/strategy game!

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Build Factory Interiors
  • …Salvage Ancient Ruins
  • …Design Battleship Layouts
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Norland

82% 👍 OF 10K
About This Game

Lead your noble family in this medieval colony sim, facing off against class conflict, religious struggle, and political treachery. Tend to your people’s needs, uncover the lost knowledge of a fallen empire, and engage in nefarious plots against your enemies.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Build a Medieval Town
  • …Manage Noble Rivalries
  • …Direct Peasant Work
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Cataclismo

89% 👍 OF 4.3K
About This Game

Design and build fortresses brick by brick to stand against endless hordes of Horrors in this real-time strategy game with resource management, siege defense, and exploration. Lead from the ramparts, push back the darkness, and hold fast against the creatures of the Mist.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Build Brick Fortresses
  • …Repel Night Hordes
  • …Explore for Resources
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Kingdoms and Castles

94% 👍 OF 31K
About This Game

Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …build castle walls and towers block by block, then stack them absurdly high to mount long-range weapons on top.
  • …watch a dragon fly over your fortifications and burn your fields or granary from the middle of town.
  • …toggle archer and ballista jobs right before an attack so villagers man the defenses, then turn them off to stop paying garrisons.
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Whiskerwood

92% 👍 OF 3.8K
About This Game

Establish a home for your industrious mice under the oppressive paw of your cat overlords in this city builder featuring complex simulations, intricate production chains, and the age-old rivalry between cat and mouse.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …flatten land, carve mountains apart, and dump stone into the ocean to create new farmland.
  • …use smuggling schemes and tax-evasion loopholes to avoid paying the cats.
  • …follow one specific mouse's commute, then rebuild your trains and elevators so that single daily route runs better.