Player Creativity is King in Physics-Based Building Game Besiege, Now in Early Access

Janine "Iris Ophelia" Hawkins' ongoing review of gaming and virtual world style

I've got three words for you: DIY Siege Engines. That's the pitch for Besiege, a physics-based medieval destruction sandbox which launched in Steam's Early Access program late last month. Although the game's current version only offers a slice of what will presumably be included in the final release, players are already sharing their own clever, creative constructs like the one above by Besiege player zeroharker.

"I've been working on trying to make the smallest most concealable weapons so far in this," zeroharker wrote in their original post on the Besiege forums. "This latest invention," they continued, "Combines my collapsible crossbow with the siege wagon into a tiny terror."

So what exactly does this unassuming little contraption do? Well, just take a look:

Pretty darn clever, right?

Pick up Besiege for the bargain price of $6.99 on Steam, or check out the Besiege subreddit for more impressive feats of siege engineering.

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Janine Hawkins (@bleatingheart on Twitter, Iris Ophelia in Second Life) has been writing about virtual worlds and video games for nearly a decade, and has had her work featured on Paste, Kotaku, Jezebel and The Mary Sue.