Besiege
Game · 2015 · Niche
Besiege sold over 1 million Steam copies by September 2015, Steam Spy estimated.
Spread Score
How it worksNumbers
- Peak concurrent players, February 2020 (Steam Charts)
- 11.1K
- As of Feb 29, 2020 · Steam Charts
- Peak date
- Week of Feb 15, 2015
- Jan 16 ’15 to Week of Feb 15, 2015
- Platforms
- 3
- Started on Open web
- Origin
- Seeded
- Gaming
Mechanics
How it spread
Trace the originSpiderling teased Besiege on Vine in July 2014 and released an alpha on January 16, 2015. PewDiePie posted a Let's Play on January 24 and Steam Early Access opened January 28. GIFs of player machines spread on Reddit and Twitter, and it hit 7th in Steam's weekly top sellers.
Dates use the stated precision; chart positions are date anchors.
15 more events on this chart
Join free to see themTimeline (18)
July 2014
Spiderling Games precursor · Jul 4 ’14
Spiderling Games posted a Vine clip captioned Besiege.[1]
Spiderling (MarcoAM) / IndieDB precursor · Jul 7 ’14
The developers posted an Introduction to Besiege on IndieDB after a little over nine months of work.[2]
January 2015
Spiderling seed · Jan 16 ’15
Spiderling released the Besiege alpha on its website and asked for Steam Greenlight votes.[3]
Changelogupdated Oct 16 ’26
- Added 1 event · Revised 1 event · Added 2 sources · Score 31 → 36
- Added: 16 events, 18 sources · Score 31
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