Lead your kingdom to THRIVE with Thrive: Heavy Lies the Crown, a Medieval Fantasy city builder that forces you to make dire decisions to ensure the survival of your kingdom and the people you lead. With Volition as a valuable tool in your inventory, you can shape the land and fortify it as you see fit. Your seemingly trivial choices can shape your legacy and determine if you’re a soulless tyrant or a fair and just monarch.

• Struggle with real-time decision making that leads to real-time consequences
• Uncover the true nature of the mysterious Waelgrim
• Survive the harsh realities of medieval life, both natural and manmade
• Advance the development of your kingdom through an in-depth tech tree
• Discover your benevolent or tyrannical nature
• Traverse an unknown land to gain new resources and allies
• Explore this land alone or with up to four friends
• Defend your growing kingdom by waging epic battles
• Receive modding support to play your way

The path by which you rule, be it benevolent or tyrannical, is determined entirely by the decisions you make. Thrive’s narrative-driven event system presents dynamic, nuanced options that often make the best choice unclear. Compassion and communion with nature can empower you, but rapid growth and progression could catapult your dominion. Establish your presence in a large-scale 4X land, rich in possibility and potential conflict, with up to four friends. Compete for resources and develop relationships with numerous AI villages and kingdoms, strengthening your foothold in this new territory’s active economy. Develop outposts and small villages to gain increased resources while helping to extend the reaches of trade. As your kingdom grows, will you develop a legacy of fear or friendship?

To survive is to take heed of what you can control, and weather what you cannot. Direct your kingdom’s future through effective planning, advancement and a detailed tech tree. Success is rewarded with new options to empower or enforce the nature of your rule. Countless variables, from weather to Waelgrim, add increased pressure to your reign. Endure these unpredictable forces and prove you truly have what it takes to thrive.

Thrive’s real-time combat is reflected in the costs of war. Choices are realistic and impactful: soldiers’ deaths affect morale, ammunition needs resupply, armour and weapons require repairs, and troops experience fatigue. Engage in siegecraft, both as an inflictor and receiver, to show you can persevere against any form of adversary. Approach all conflict with a clear strategy, lest you long for a bitter reminder of failure’s high cost.

• Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  
• OS: Windows 10
  
• Processor: Intel Core i5-4590 (AMD FX 8350) or better.
  
• Memory: 8 GB RAM
  
• Graphics: nvidia gtx 660 or better
  
• Network: Broadband Internet connection
  
• Storage: 5 GB available space
  
• Sound Card: Integrated

• Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  
• OS: Windows 10
  
• Processor: Intel Core i5-4590 (AMD FX 8350) or better.
  
• Memory: 16 GB RAM
  
• Graphics: nvidia gtx 660 or better
  
• Network: Broadband Internet connection
  
• Storage: 10 GB available space
  
• Sound Card: Integrated