Beacon Under Siege — Orbit and Obliterate the Undead

Beacon Under Siege drops you into the gunner's seat of an AC-130-style gunship that circles a lighthouse on its own. You don't steer the plane — instead, you point the crosshair, pick the right weapon from nine options, and start hammering waves of undead before they reach the beacon below. It's a hands-off movement system that lets you focus on aiming and ammo management. This one's for anyone who likes tower defense mixed with heavy firepower, and who doesn't mind the camera doing the flying for them. If Call of Duty's AC-130 mission hooked you, you'll probably dig this. The downside is that you can't really reposition, so when zombies rush from a weird angle, you're stuck rotating your aim instead of flying somewhere better.

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Each round runs about 3-5 minutes, and the goal is simple: don't let the zombies touch the lighthouse. Your gunship orbits automatically, so you spend most of your time tracking targets, switching between primary, secondary, and special weapons, and watching the radar for incoming clusters. Hit R when a wave gets too thick — that tactical strike clears out a chunk of the map. Here's the frustration: new players waste ammo spraying at distant zombies instead of focusing on the ones already clawing at the beacon. You'll hit a wall around wave 5 or 6 if you haven't learned to prioritize targets. The FLIR sensor (F key) helps a lot when waves overlap and everything turns into a blob on screen. Between rounds, take a breath — there's usually a short break to swap loadouts.

Most horde survival games make you run around or build walls. Beacon Under Siege skips all that and puts you in the most overpowered seat on the battlefield — a circling gunship. That single gimmick keeps every round feeling fresh because the threat comes from angles, not movement. The weakness is repetition: after 15-20 waves, the loop doesn't change much. Still, if you want a chill shooting game where the game does the navigating, this beats most browser defense titles.