Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown
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Action indie game Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown comes from Zugalu Entertainment and launched in 2025 with PlaySide as publisher. Steam lists 365 reviews at 0% positive with a mixed label, and the initial price is $27.99.
Overview
Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown is a 2025 Action game developed by Zugalu Entertainment and published by PlaySide. On Steam it has gathered 367 player reviews, 59% of them positive, which counts as a mixed reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $28. The pairing of developer Zugalu Entertainment with publisher PlaySide is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 8,000 to 18,000 units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
367
Positive
59%
Steam appid
1245250
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.08K to 18K
units (median: 13K)
≈ $123K to $288K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2025 | -10 |
| price_$28 | +5 |
| positive_59% | -10 |
| final NB | 35 |
Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review
counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range
is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it,
especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version
v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown at roughly 8,000 to 18,000 copies, with a median around 13,000, derived from its 367 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $205K in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
9 observed days · window low $27.99Across 9 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $27.99 to $27.99. The tracked-window low was $27.99 on 2026-07-15.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
windows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown sold?
- indielist estimates Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown has sold between 7,707 and 17,983 units (median 12,845), derived from its 367 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown?
- Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown was developed by Zugalu Entertainment and published by PlaySide.
- Who published Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown?
- Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown was published by PlaySide, developed by Zugalu Entertainment. See PlaySide's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown released?
- Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown was released in 2025.
- How many reviews does Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown have on Steam?
- Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown has 367 Steam reviews, of which 59% are positive.
- Is Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown worth playing?
- Steam players rate Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown 59% positive across 367 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Rust, Terraria, Phasmophobia, ARK: Survival Evolved, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Zugalu Entertainment's other releases and PlaySide's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.
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