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Zugalu Entertainment teams up with PlaySide Publishing



People of Nysamor,

Today marks a new chapter for Thrive: Heavy Lies the Crown, as we formally announce our launch into Early Access in 2024 on Steam and our new partnership with PlaySide Publishing. Make sure you join our official Discord to stay up to date with the details for our upcoming 2023 beta.

Zugalu Entertainment looks forward to working with PlaySide Publishing as they have a proven track record of working on innovative and high quality titles. Like Zugalu, PlaySide understands what makes a title great and have ambitious goals for Thrive: Heavy Lies the Crown.

[h3]Establish your realm[/h3]

Thrive: Heavy Lies the Crown is a medieval fantasy city-builder with real-time combat and weighty decision-making. As a new ruler, you and the survivors of Aldamor travel to the curious land of Nysamor in search of a new home. Together, you will work to raise up a great kingdom, and define your legacy.

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Thrive: Heavy Lies the Crown offers a fully-realized single-player experience for solo play, or the ability to play in up-to-four-player multiplayer. This is something that sets it apart from other games in the same genre, it’s rare in city-builder and strategy games that you are able to build your kingdom alongside your friends – with the choice to play cooperatively or competitively.

As to what kind of ruler you shall become… that choice is yours! Will your disposition lean towards cruelty or clemency? Each choice you make directly affects your kingdom, the society you create and the world around you.



[h3]Ensure your kingdom can thrive… [/h3]

Explore mysterious lands, establish a powerful military to fortify your dominion and engage in real-time combat to defend or expand your rule.

Aside from contending with both AI and human forces, players will also find themselves contending with the Waelgrim, an enigmatic and capricious entity that prowls the lands of Nysamor.



Keep your eyes as sharp as your swords for regular content such as upcoming streams and blogs, as we keep you up to date with our development progress. To celebrate today's announcement, join Greg, Lead Designer and Kat, Lead Narrative Designer on Thrive: Heavy Lies the Crown, as they take you through all the latest and greatest updates via stream on Steam today.

We look forward to sharing all the hard work happening behind the scenes on Thrive: Heavy Lies the Crown – as we embark on our journey towards Early Access.

Thrive: Heavy Lies the Crown is available to Wishlist on Steam now!

Find out more about PlaySide Publishing on their official website

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Find out more about PlaySide Publishing on their official website

Sneak Peek at Closed Alpha

Have a sneak peek at the next build being released to our ThriveVIPs in closed Alpha. If you want to join Closed Alpha, applications are open on discord Until Sunday, March 12th at Midnight MST.

[h2]Long may you THRIVE! [/h2]

[h3]Join Discord Here[/h3]
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What are everyone's thoughts on how the buildings now pop out of the menu?

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Multiplayer is now live



Thank you to all our discord ThriveVIP members for helping to test out multiplayer. We are excited to have this feature fully implemented in our closed alpha.

We are looking to expand our testing group over the next few months; please join the discord to stay on top of notifications for when applications are opening next.

Discord Thrive:HLTC

Features Trailer Now LIVE

We are excited to share the in-depth Features Trailer for Thrive: Heavy Lies the Crown that we premiered at gamescom.

Every like, comment, and subscribe helps us scrappy Canadian indie devs before we list it publicly on

Also, join our Discord to apply to be a Pre-Alpha Tester with our ThriVIP program.

[h2]Long may you THRIVE! [/h2]

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