Indie · February 18, 2020
Besiege (2020)
Besiege is a physics building game about constructing mechanical machines to annihilate armies, obliterate castles and overcome challenging obstacles. Conquer the campaign or skirmish with friends in Multiplayer! Create tanks, planes, helicopters, sports cars, catapults, rockets, giant mechs- anything you can imagine- with Besiege’s intuitive & flexible building system and extensive 70+ block collection! The game’s intricate physics system creates a satisfying building & simulation experience, whether you’re the harbinger of destruction or your machine is falling apart. Conquer your way through a singleplayer campaign of 55 destructible levels. Spanning across four island nations, each with its own environment, the campaign will pit you against unique civilizations ripe for conquest. Cruise through Besiege’s huge sandbox levels, terrorizing their inhabitants, honing your craft & testing your ingenious prototypes. Unlock more than 200,000 community made machines via the Steam Workshop, all available to download & play in your own game! Besiege Multiverse is a portal for you to connect with other players and unleash chaos in multiplayer. Go head-to-head in epic machine combat or compete against your friends to complete level objectives and win custom game modes. Work cooperatively to conquer levels, complete puzzles and lay waste to armies & fortresses. Besiege’s powerful level editing tools will enable you to wage war with AI armies and build custom environments with your friends! Make changes to levels in real time and create unique multiplayer experiences with the editor’s logic system. Robot wars, motor racing, football; there’s no end to the creative possibilities! Besiege has built in support which has enabled our community to produce hundreds of mods and thousands of custom levels & skin packs. Easy to find and simple to install with Besiege’s Steam Workshop integration & our in-game modloader. With more than 20,000 members, you’ll be sure to find help building, modding, skinning and if you’re looking for a challenge you can take part in one of the building contests. The community Discord is also a great place to find other people to play multiplayer games with!
Indie releases from 2020
25 Indie titles launched in 2020 — top 6 by review volume.
Position in Indie
| Metric | This title | Genre position |
|---|---|---|
| Review volume | 49.8k Steam reviews | Top 6% in Indie |
| Positive rating | 95% positive | Genre average: 87% — this title sits in top 23% |
| Concurrent peak | 243 players | Top 20% in Indie by live player count |
| Engagement hours | 9 h average | Top 65% for session depth among Indie |
Peer Indie titles
Comparable titles in the same genre and review-volume band — ranked by Steam positive percentage.
Community Tag Signals
Tag weights reflect how many Steam users voted each descriptor — larger pills = stronger consensus.
- Simulation · 1.4k
- Sandbox · 1.4k
- Destruction · 1.4k
- Physics · 1.4k
- Medieval · 1.4k
- Building · 1.4k
- Moddable · 1.4k
- Real-Time with Pause · 1.2k
- Multiplayer · 1.2k
- Puzzle · 1.2k
- Flight · 1.2k
- Replay Value · 1.2k
- Logic · 1.2k
- PvE · 1.0k
- Robots · 1.0k
Localization Coverage
Interface / Subtitles (12)
- English
- French
- German
- Spanish - Spain
- Japanese
- Korean
- Portuguese - Portugal
- Russian
- Simplified Chinese
- Italian
- Polish
- Portuguese - Brazil
Features & Capabilities
Multiplayer
- Multi-player
- PvP
- Online PvP
- LAN PvP
- Co-op
Community
- Steam Achievements
- Steam Trading Cards
- Steam Workshop
- Steam Leaderboards
- Remote Play on Tablet
Other
- Single-player
- Includes level editor
Reception Metrics
Steam community
95%Overwhelmingly Positive · 49.8k reviews
47.3k positive · 2.5k negative
Curator recommendations
46.5k
Peak concurrent players
243
Engagement Profile
All-time avg
9h
short (5–15 hours)
Median
3h
Typical completion time
2-week avg
1h
Current engagement
Achievements
50
Steam unlocks available
Release & Availability
| Release date | Feb 18, 2020 |
|---|---|
| Developer | Spiderling Studios |
| Base price | $2.99 -80% |
| DLC / Add-ons | 3 released |
| Platforms | Windows, macOS, Linux |
| Estimated owners | 1M–10M |
| External links | Official site · [email protected] |
Editions & Packages
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