# Besiege

> Besiege sold over 1 million Steam copies by September 2015, Steam Spy estimated.

- Owner: Spiderling Studios
- Kind: Game
- Sector: Gaming
- Seed date: 2015-01-16
- Peak date: Week of Feb 15, 2015
- Date basis: Dates use the stated precision; chart positions are date anchors.
- Spread Score: 36 (Niche), v1.2
- Mechanics: Shareable output, Platform jump

## Summary

Spiderling 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.

## Timeline

- 2014-07-04 — Spiderling Games (Open web) — Spiderling Games posted a Vine clip captioned Besiege.
- 2014-07-07 — Spiderling (MarcoAM) / IndieDB (Open web) — The developers posted an Introduction to Besiege on IndieDB after a little over nine months of work.
- 2015-01-16 — Spiderling (Open web) — Spiderling released the Besiege alpha on its website and asked for Steam Greenlight votes.

The full timeline, metrics and sources are on the case page, or via the Pro API (https://howitspread.com/developers).

Canonical URL: https://howitspread.com/cases/besiege

Cite as: How It Spread (2026). “Besiege.” Case HIS-00438. Spread Score v1.2: 36/100. Updated 2026-10-13. https://howitspread.com/id/HIS-00438