If you thought building over-engineered medieval catapults to smash tiny wooden villages was peak chaos, Spiderling Studios has a reality check for you—and it involves zero gravity.

Spiderling Studios has officially launched The Broken Beyond, the largest and most ambitious expansion to date for its beloved physics-building hit, Besiege. Available right now on Steam, this expansion does the unthinkable: it takes the series’ trademark mechanical catastrophe off-world for the very first time.

Check out the chaos waiting for you in the launch trailer, and read on to see what happens when medieval engineering meets rocket science.

From Castles to Cosmos: What is The Broken Beyond?

Where the base game of Besiege tasks players with constructing war machines to topple castles and crush armies, The Broken Beyond asks a far more volatile question: What happens when you bolt a wood-and-iron trebuchet to liquid-fueled rocket boosters and aim it at the stars?

The answer, predictably, is absolute Newtonian carnage.

This isn’t just a cosmetic reskin. Spiderling Studios has introduced a full orbital physics simulation that pushes the game into mind-bending new territory. Every large celestial object in the expansion—including planets, moons, and massive asteroids—generates its own gravitational field. This allows you to establish orbits, sling-shot machines around celestial bodies, or completely misjudge your trajectory and send an iron moon careening into a planet.

Key Features Landing in the Expansion

• 13 New Space Blocks & Resource Management: To get you off the ground, the expansion introduces a suite of 13 spaceflight blocks. Think rocket boosters, control thrusters, inertial steering, rocket fins, and parachutes for atmospheric re-entry. It also introduces resource management via a dynamic fuel system. You’ll need to carefully balance your fuel barrels, hoses, and couplers against your machine’s total mass—too heavy, and you aren’t leaving the launchpad.
• An 11-Level Interplanetary Campaign: Your journey begins with a literal blast-off from Ipsilion (the original island from the base game) before escalating into epic space set-pieces. You’ll lay siege to fortresses perched on drifting asteroids, race through deep canyons on desert planets, and battle swarms of alien spacecraft.
• Atmospheric & Aerodynamic Simulation: Space isn’t entirely a vacuum here. Planets are wrapped in atmospheres that bring aerodynamics into play. You can use wings and balloons to generate lift, or rely on grid fins to survive a screaming, fiery atmospheric re-entry.
• Cosmic Sandbox & Multiplayer Level Editor: If the campaign isn’t enough, a massive cosmic sandbox awaits your destructive whims. Best of all, the space environment, custom gravity fields, and orbital mechanics have been integrated into Besiege’s powerful level editor—meaning you can build custom space arenas to wreck alongside your friends in multiplayer.

Grab It Now (With a Launch Discount!)

If you’re ready to trade your castle-crushing wheels for rocket thrusters, Besiege: The Broken Beyond is available now on Steam. Even better, Spiderling Studios is celebrating the launch with a 15% introductory discount running until June 29, bringing the expansion down to just $7.64 / £6.69.

Time to get building, engineers. Just remember: in space, no one can hear your wooden rocket ship accidentally explode on the launchpad.

Find out more here

#Besiege #TheBrokenBeyond #SpiderlingStudios #IndieGames #PCGaming #SteamDeals #GamingNews #PhysicsSandbox #SciFiGaming #TechMash