Zombie Gunship Survival: AC130

Apocalypse Air Strike Shooter

Ratings

Age

13+

Action

Languages

English

Latest Version 1.7.46

Mon May 18 2026

9TH ANNIVERSARY UPDATE

New update arrives, bringing with it:

- Special Anniversary event

- New sanctuary event

- New prototype weapons

- Fixed unintended camera zoom

Experience the ultimate AC-130 zombie shooter. In this intense action game, the world has been overrun by the undead. As a survivor, you take control of an AC-130 gunship to provide air support for your ground troops. Engage in thrilling missions where you must clear out hordes of zombies using a variety of weapons, including Gatling guns, cannons, and missiles. Between missions, build and defend your base against zombie attacks, upgrade your weapons, and manage your resources to ensure the survival of humanity. The fate of the world is in your hands!

Dinsun Expert Review

Our Expert Score

90/100

Zombie Gunship Survival is the ultimate power trip. There is something intensely cool about looking through an infrared thermal camera from an AC-130 and raining fire on hordes of zombies to protect your ground troops. The sound design is incredible—the 'thud' of the 105mm cannon feels weighty and impactful.

Beyond the shooting, the base-building and weapon-upgrading systems give the game real longevity. It’s not just a mindless shooter; you have to strategically pick your loadout and manage your troops' pathing. The atmospheric, dark visuals perfectly capture that 'eye in the sky' military feeling. It's easily one of the most polished action games on the App Store.

Dinsun reviewed on: Tue Feb 24 2026

Features

Authentic AC-130 gunship thermal visuals

Vast array of upgradeable military weaponry

Strategic base building and defense

Challenging missions with diverse zombie types

High-fidelity sound and visual effects

Upcoming Events

Tips & Walkthrough

Air Support Strategy

In the air, your priority is protecting the ground team. Watch the thermal feed for 'shamblers' and 'titans.' Use the 25mm for small groups and save the heavy 105mm for clusters or large barricades. Don't let your guns overheat!

Gameplays

Aerial Combat & Base Building

The game alternates between tactical aerial shooting and strategic base management. Use the resources gathered by your ground teams to reinforce your base's walls and towers, which is crucial for surviving 'defense' events when zombies attack your headquarters.

Screenshot

Q&A

Titans are heavily armored. Use high-caliber cannons or rockets to take them down quickly. Aiming for explosive barrels near them can also deal significant damage.

Ratings & Reviews

Drink a Pina Colada, kill a few zombies.

Fri Jul 03 2020 Nomad-01

This is one of the best games out there, very unique. Definitely not a cash grab, as I have reached level 15 (1st Lieutenant) without putting in a dime. I plan on spending some money soon because the developers have earned it, but not because I have too. It does take time and patience. I play maybe 15 minutes a day, earn all the objectives and rewards I can for the day, then call it quits. It's kind of relaxing. By doing that, and leveling up things smartly, you can beat the zombies, even though it's getting tougher. Or just to relax, you can blast away at an "easy"setting just for the fun of it. Graphics are great, especially when you zoom in. There not a lot of instruction on how to fuse weapons or what the different weapons do, but you get the hang of it. Go for purple, then blue then green. Ask Rufus, he knows. But watch out for the royal ugly dudes. Party on!!! MANY PINA COLADAS LATER.... Like two years later, and I am now a level 40 FiveStar General and never had to put in a dime (sorry Devs; I will one day, I promise). It’s my second favorite game of all time, right after World of Tanks Blitz. But I have to say Zombie Gunship is still relaxing, while WoT is anything but. Give this game a chance, and just play for fun, and you will advance. Have not been able to beat the really big crane- sized zombies yet. I think I’ll need small tactical nukes for that.

AWESOME GAME but requires grind

Sat May 23 2020 aboundedlight65

I’ve been playing this game for a while now, and the gameplay is absolutely great! So many weapons to choose from and UI (user interface) is pretty good, standard AC-130 white and black camera, circling above your ground squad, would definitely recommend for people with time on their hands. The missions are short but fun, and reward an ok amount of loot. Your armory can hold four crates and open one at a time, crates take about 3 hours to open but give decent rewards. I love the idea of building your base and defending it from zombies, but I kinda wish there was more in that section like an online PvP mode where you can raid other peoples bases, or be the zombies and attack someone’s base. I feel like this would urge people to upgrade their bases as soon as possible, instead of just every here and then like me and a few other people I know. This could also be another way to earn recourses at a faster rate. The missions are very fun but I feel like there should be something at the beginning, like maybe you pick where to deploy your troops as usual and then when you start the missions you see the helicopter deploying them, or maybe even a cutscene! That would be cool. All in all this is a great game with room for small improvements like a raised level cap and a few more weapons to play around with. Definitely recommended.

Fun zombie gunship formula with resource and base management

Tue Oct 02 2018 Narf60

Was sure I reviewed this much earlier before but I’ll say it again. This is a very fun zombie gunship styled game with a randomized reward system and upgrades based upon gathered resources. Much like Borderlands’ or Diablo’s random quality/rarity of item drops, a similar system exists in this but comes in the form of loot crates that take time to open (usually several hours even for the most common of crates). This is a system I don’t much care for myself but it doesn’t detract from the game much other than you’re only allowed to open one crate at a time, or alternatively spend gold (real money) to open crates instantly. Upgrades for weapons require scarce materials that you will easily use up faster than you can accumulate, again with the option to spend gold to magically create more for yourself. So a good 3/4’s of the game is spent grinding for diminishing returns on levels you can actually attempt. But if completing a level repeatedly at the same difficulty is where the grinding gets monotonously boring. But thankfully the levels are typically short and sweet. All in all, I enjoy this game quite a lot. Despite how it unintentionally restricts you with the difficulties (there’s a massive difference in difficulty between ‘easy’ and ‘medium’ in my opinion), upgrade requirements and under powered weapon selection in the mid game: at the end of the day, it’s fun as hell raining ordnance down on the shambling hordes

Hard to put down

Sat Mar 01 2025 DefenestrationSpecialist

I've been playing for about a week now maybe, give or take, and I'm enjoying the game very much. There are tactics to consider, weapons and facilities to upgrade, and loadouts to be chosen. What more could you want? Oh yeah... zombies to be killed. Lots and lots of zombies. In app purchases seem reasonable and if you're on a budget you don't have to make one to progress through the game. Just have patience. I've made one $4.99 purchase and will again at some point in the future because the game is worth it. One last thing... The graphics are very nice. So download the app and help protect us all from the zombie hordes. Just remember to to go to bed at a decent hour. Update: 01 March 2025 I can’t even remember when I wrote my first review, but now I figure I’ve been playing it for longer than I was married to my first wife. No joke. Have made several small purchases, but I keep telling myself that I deserve to splurge on some mega destructive Legendary weapons. Waiting for a Legendary to drop in a random crate takes a lot of patience, but fortunately “grinding” really isn’t bad at all because every time you change your loadout, the game plays differently and presents unique challenges. That’s just plain good game design.

Finally hit the wall

Sun Sep 15 2024 Fiddler Green

If you are looking for a game to pass some time, this will fill the need. It’s starts off relatively easy and simple, then progresses in difficulty. You gain different weapons via crates and then have to grind out parts to increase the weapon power. So it’s rinse and repeat grind. I personally have completed nearly the entire map sections (Only one full section and half of another). There’s really no problem with those, except the developers limit you on crates per day, via a time limit. Like all F2P games, you eventually hit a wall. This is especially true if you do the monthly event. Granted, I enjoyed the game and have dropped some $$$ for some upgrades, but no prototype weapons (most powerful in the game). The current event I have watched my PWR (power) score drop during each run. There’s a certain point, even with Legendary weapons maxed out I couldn’t score high enough to maintain my PWR ranking in my division. Now, I can’t say this is true for every player, but it was enough for me to delete it. Note: some of the crates I got at a end of the event contained multiple weapons of the same type. It got so bad I wasn’t chocking it up to RNG. If you do decide to play, I leave you with one helpful hint. Max out the mission and free crates via viewing adds on a Tuesday, but don’t open them until Wednesday. Wednesday there’s an Loot and Shoot event (starts at 9:30 EST). There’s an added bonus for xp, parts, metal etc. This will help on your weapon upgrades and base building.

Fun, but a let down...

Thu Dec 18 2025 Marius275

It's fun to have a base that you can upgrade, and that there are soldiers to protect, while they're on a mission to gather supplies. The graphics compared to the first one are substantially better. However, it is a real grind, as one reviewer before me had stated, to upgrade anything that'll really help you. The explosive weapons have very limited ability to harm, and the Titan zombies are just about impossible to kill, unless you use a sniper gun that only works good for them and bad for anything else. The upgrades for the weapons are just about worthless, and even the elite crates don't really give you much for the cost. Another negative point is the fact that there really aren't many levels, and the only way that you can unlock more levels is to play the same levels again on a harder setting. However, then you run into the problem of the weapons that you have upgraded 30+ times, are seriously inadequate making the levels almost impossible to beat. So you just get stuck and can't really play the game anymore, unless you just want to replay all the levels without any benefit. Unless the developers go back and re-program this game so that upgrading weapons actually does something, and make it so getting to the higher levels doesn't take such a huge increase in rank, this game unfortunately doesn't have much of a life left. Which is sad, because it could really be one of the greats!

🔫😎👍

Fri May 11 2018 sarha-bear

This game is really well done tho, you guys seem to have missed something the voice for your units doesn't change like for the girl who is the rocket launcher unit it shows her talking and its the same as the other dudes assault etc. other than that no problems with the game. Some updates that would be kinda cool is maybe to have units on the ground when in like defense and frenzy mode not just the towers maybe like the units we unlock. And maybe add a little more to the existing units like when they come out of the buildings they don't tucker down to defend in side each other. Also make em a little more upright with guns pointed forword kinda for like the assault you know more like the military does when going around unknown terrain but as of right now the graphics are really good. And maybe add more objective like missions not loot runs like add a little bit of story or something like rescuing survivors etc. but still earn loot from them and the amount I'm getting from the missions now is pretty good definitely don't lower it but when going back to redo the missions the loot is terrible so plz plz fix that and the cooling rate for gatling should be able to go up when upgrade cuz sometimes i like to play missions just to cut the zombies down but i don't really get to do to the cooling. If you guys were also maybe to add clans or some way to interact with other plays would be cool but also make/keep the game so if if we don't have wifi we can still play the game you know just in an offline mode. Other than that ⬆️ the game is super fun I'm totally keeping it so keep up the good work 😎👍 one of the best zombie games

My honest opinion

Sun Jul 04 2021 LaupOnTop

I've never written a review but I actually enjoy this game so please be open minded to my criticism. The gameplay is spectacular, no problems there from my experience. But the Crates and rewards system is flawed.1 and a half hours to open a crate that has so little pay off it's disgusting. You can only hold four at a time which makes no sense giving the fact that a single mission will "reward" you with two. So you do two missions, now your crate space is full and you have to wait 1 & 1/2 hours OR pay 15 gold in which you will always lose profit gold wise. It's almost like the game is punishing you for just having crates. I feel a lot more people would like a system where: 1.there is not crate limit 2.Shorten the timer 3.Increase the drops to make it worth while. I'm not saying all three should be implemented, but one should at least be taken in to consideration. Of course at the end of the day who's ever in charge of things like this will do what he or she does but from a business standpoint I feel people are discouraged to continue playing after experiencing the current crate system. I don't even know if company's care about post like this but something should be changed, I don't care when or how it just needs to happen. - Ya Boi, Paul

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