Lantern Siege

Lantern Siege is a horde survival game where light is territory. It is also a tower defense game: place wards (your towers) at the edge of the light, link them to the lantern to spread it, and hold the line against waves of thousands of creatures.

You hold the last lantern in a dark wilderness while hundreds, then thousands, of gloom-struck creatures pour in. You only steer. Your weapons fire on their own, and every few seconds you level up and pick a card: one of ten weapons (seed mortars, chain lightning, tornadoes, boulders, a sunbeam and more), wards, shields or minions.

Light is the ground you can hold. Creatures in the dark are faster and tougher, so drop wards at the edge of the glow: wards that link to the lantern push the light further out. Wander too far and an arrow shows the way home.

The run is four waves. After each of the first three, the horde falls, your gems are collected and the game pauses so you can take a break. Two giant bosses stalk the run, each with its own moves, and at the end the region's ruler arrives for a three-phase fight. Three regions: Wildroot Hollow, Frostfall Pass and Sunscar Dunes.

Max a weapon and find its partner to evolve it. Tame elite creatures and play as them. Spend embers in the camp between runs. A new Daily Siege every day.

Controls: WASD or arrow keys to move (or a gamepad). 1, 2, 3 or click to pick a card, R to reroll, Esc to pause, F for fullscreen, Space to fire a charged flare early. Touch drag works as a fallback.

Built for desktop browsers: thousands of creatures on screen. About 60 MB of creatures load the first time you play, then they are cached. Music is from the Battle Creatures soundtrack. The Android APK needs Android 7.0 or newer with a current WebView.

Featuring the creatures of Battle Creatures. Also playable at sviewstudios.com/lantern-siege/. No account, no ads. Nothing is collected on itch.io.