Besiege
Mild overall intensityWhat's in it
Player-built medieval machines crush, launch, burn, and cut down blocky soldiers and destroy castles; the physics-driven deaths produce red blood spray but no realistic bodies, dismemberment, or gore detail.
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What it is
Besiege is a physics-based building game where you assemble medieval contraptions and siege engines out of wooden blocks, wheels, cannons, bombs, blades, and other parts, then use them to solve puzzles, clear obstacles, and smash through castles and armies across a 55-level campaign and an open sandbox. The main content concern is stylized combat: your machines crush, fling, burn, and slice small medieval soldiers, and defeated troopers spray cartoonish red blood, though there are no detailed bodies, gore, or dismemberment. There is no sexual content, language, substances, or purchasable extras. On PC the game supports peer multiplayer (including battling each other's creations) with voice and text chat, plus Steam Workshop sharing of user-made vehicles, maps, and skins.
How it's framed
Violence is framed as slapstick engineering spectacle rather than realistic combat: the appeal is watching absurd homemade machines succeed or spectacularly fall apart, and the soldiers and castles are impersonal targets and obstacles with no story, characters, or emotional stakes attached to their destruction.
Details
- Developer
- Spiderling Studios
- Publisher
- Spiderling Studios
- Released
- Feb 18, 2020
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