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Games like Besiege

If Besiege is your kind of game, the closest matches are World of Contraptions, Cold Response and Robocraft 2 — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its creativity never runs out, engineer machines from scratch and challenging. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.

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Besiege is a physics-based indie simulation developed by Spiderling Studios, released in 2020 at $14.99. Set in a medieval world, the core gameplay centers on building machines from scratch using a construction system governed by realistic physics to overcome puzzle challenges, destroy fortresses, and defeat enemy forces. The campaign presents 48 puzzle scenarios across multiple worlds, while sandbox and multiplayer modes enable players to design maps and share creations. Players describe the experience as challenging, immersive, and funny, and highlight that creativity never runs out, that physics-based destruction feels satisfying, and that multiplayer map creation is a blast. The Steam Workshop supports extensive modding, and the game runs Playable on Steam Deck. It holds a 95% positive rating from 22,886 Steam reviews.

About Besiege: 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!

2020IndieSimulation14.99 USDDeck PlayableWindows · macOS · Linuxby Spiderling Studios
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Players who liked Besiege also play

Steam players who put hours into Besiege also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.

  1. World of Contraptions

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Besiege.

    Top pick for Besiege fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Besiege.

    World of Contraptions is a physics-based building game in which you build the most varied contraptions to solve the most diverse types of puzzles. Win dozens of levels with different types of obstacles. Design the best contraption for each challenge using a giant collection of blocks.

    2022StrategyIndieSimulation9.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Cold Response

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Besiege fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Besiege.

    Explore and survive a war torn Sweden through the eyes of an unknown soldier, alone or with friends.

    ActionAdventureSimulationSteam ↗
  3. Robocraft 2

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Besiege.

    Third-strongest match for Besiege fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Besiege.

    The sequel to the genre-defining game, played by over 16 million people! Experience vehicle-based online PvP destruction with limitless options, absolutely free.

    2023ActionIndieSimulationFreeSteam ↗
  4. SimplePlanes 2

    WHY THIS

    Shares an epic mood with Besiege.

    Ranked #4 for Besiege fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Besiege.

    SimplePlanes is back! Build planes, cars, or anything else using powerful procedural parts! Explore detailed environments with friends in multiplayer, cause chaos, or download 1,000,000 community crafts for free.

    2026IndieSimulationEarly Access17.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Forts

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Besiege.

    Ranked #5 for Besiege fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Besiege.

    Unleash your creativity and strategic prowess in Forts, the exhilarating physics-based RTS! Design, construct, and customize imposing fortresses, bristling with devastating firepower, and blast your opponent’s buildings to rubble!

    2017ActionStrategyIndie14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Disassembly 3D

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Besiege.

    Ranked #6 for Besiege fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Besiege.

    Disassembly and destruction physics sandbox simulator. Detailed models of objects and vehicles and their internal parts. Disassemble objects successfully to unlock weapons mode and destruction. Fight evil mannequins with everything you got in physical combat!

    2017IndieSimulation29.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Nuclear Option

    WHY THIS

    Shares an epic mood with Besiege.

    Ranked #7 for Besiege fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Besiege.

    Fly near-future aircraft with immersive physics on intense battlefields, facing land, air and sea threats. Wage war against AI or other players with an array of potent weapons. Wield tactical and strategic nuclear weapons, capable of annihilating anything in their path.

    2023ActionIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Brick Rigs

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Besiege.

    Ranked #8 for Besiege fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Besiege.

    Build your own vehicles or download one of the more than 200,000 creations already uploaded to the Workshop and experience the dynamic driving and destruction physics of Brick Rigs!

    2023Simulation19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Besiege

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. SimplePlanes

    WHY THIS

    Shares modding workshop and a challenging mood with Besiege.

    Reviewers of Besiege cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Besiege.

    Build airplanes by snapping parts together, designing wing sections, and attaching engines. At any time, you can strap yourself into the cockpit and see how it flies with realistic physics. If you're not in the mood for building, over 100,000 airplanes are available to download for free.

    2015IndieSimulation12.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Factorio

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Besiege cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Besiege.

    Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation35.00 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Auto Chess

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Besiege.

    Reviewers of Besiege cross-mention this title as a similar play.

    Original Auto Chess

    2022StrategyFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Trailmakers

    WHY THIS

    Shares an immersive mood with Besiege.

    Reviewers of Besiege cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Besiege.

    Build the ultimate vehicle and explore a vast open world filled with challenges and adventure. Play solo or team up with friends in multiplayer to conquer the toughest obstacles. With a thrilling campaign mode and endless creative possibilities, Trailmakers is the ultimate sandbox for adventurers.

    2019ActionIndieAdventure24.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Prison Architect

    WHY THIS

    Shares an immersive mood with Besiege.

    Reviewers of Besiege cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Besiege.

    Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.

    2015StrategyIndieSimulation7.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Space Engineers

    WHY THIS

    Shares an immersive mood with Besiege.

    Reviewers of Besiege cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Besiege.

    Space Engineers is a sandbox engineering game where you design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible environment. Explore planets and space, mine resources, survive hazards, and engage in combat alone or with friends in Creative or Survival modes.

    2019ActionStrategyIndie9.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Door Kickers

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Besiege.

    Reviewers of Besiege cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Besiege.

    Door Kickers is an innovative realtime strategy game that puts you in charge of a SWAT team and lets you command them during a tactical intervention.

    2014ActionStrategyIndie19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Breach & Clear

    WHY THIS

    Shares an immersive mood with Besiege.

    Reviewers of Besiege cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Besiege.

    Breach & Clear brings deep tactical strategy simulation to PC, Mac and Linux! Build your Special Operations team, plan and execute advanced missions, and own every angle.Choose your real-world squad -- US Army Rangers, Germany's KSK, Canada’s JTF2, UK SAS, and more -- and take on a variety of foes with different skill-sets and...

    2014ActionStrategySimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Besiege at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Besiege on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Besiege.

    Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Besiege on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Besiege.

    Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Besiege on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Besiege.

    PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Besiege on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Besiege.

    We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Besiege on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Besiege.

    Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Besiege on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Besiege.

    An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Besiege on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Besiege.

    WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Noita

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Besiege on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Besiege.

    Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. The Lab

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!

    2016Free To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  2. Landfall Archives

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Besiege.

    Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!

    2023ActionStrategyIndieFreeSteam ↗
  3. SuchArt: Creative Space

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Besiege.

    Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Besiege.

    Beautiful Multiplayer Jigsaw Puzzle game where you can design the room you play in!

    2021IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Totally Accurate Battlegrounds

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Besiege.

    Grab your balloon crossbow and trusty inflatable hammer, because things are about to get wobbly! Be the last weirdo standing in the world-leading physics-based Battle Royale game.

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. World of Warships

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Besiege.

    Immerse yourself in thrilling naval battles and assemble an armada of over 800 ships from the first half of the 20th century — from stealthy destroyers to gigantic battleships. Change the look of your ship, choose upgrades to suit your play style, and go into battle with other players!

    2017ActionStrategySimulationFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Crusader Kings II

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Besiege.

    Explore one of the defining periods in world history in an experience crafted by the masters of Grand Strategy.

    2012StrategySimulationRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Supermarket Together

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Besiege.

    The multiplayer supermarket has arrived to your neighbourhood for free! Stock your shop space, unlock perks and franchises, hire employees or chase those pesky shoplifters. The more players, the more action!

    2024IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Besiege

Does Besiege run on Steam Deck?
Besiege is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
How much does Besiege cost?
Besiege is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
Does Besiege have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — Besiege supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, LAN PvP).
What games are most similar to Besiege?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Besiege are World of Contraptions, Cold Response, Robocraft 2.
Who developed Besiege?
Besiege was developed by Spiderling Studios.

imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Besiege.

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