Besiege
BANGER · Multiplayer · 2020
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $2.99.
- Length
- 6.1h
- Value
- $0.49/hr
- Reviews
- 95% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 1 GB Dedicated VRAM, 3 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Besiege is a physics building game about constructing medieval machines to annihilate armies, obliterate castles and overcome challenging obstacles. Conquer the campaign or skirmish with friends in Multiplayer!
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $1.49, set in June 2025. 75 discounts in the 12 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today's $2.99 at 80 percent off still sits 101 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 82 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, People Playground ($9.99, scores 97) beats it on value, while it beats Medieval Engineers ($9.99, scores 2).
39 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 85 percent of the 6,665 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 14 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 6.1 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 17, 2.8 times as much.
The drop-off
55% start to <1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
243 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
9/10 Fun game and stuff really fun watch and hours work blow up in a minute. Though using and track pad is impossible and the display is messed up with the mac.
hello? do you, perchance, enjoy, perhaps, the joy of, maybe, dilly-dallying, or even, tomfoolery? Spiderling Studios, I quite enjoy this, however, I am a fool. Thank you.
incredible game. very long campaign, but each level is unique and provides new challenges. very aesthetically pleasing, great sound design. in sandbox with cheats on, you can build just about anything
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
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Besiege scores 88/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/346010/besiegeThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 1, price as of Sep 24.
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