
Fly near-future aircraft with immersive physics across dynamic battlefields, facing land, air, and sea threats. Wage war against AI or rival pilots using an array of advanced weaponry, including tactical and strategic nuclear weapons capable of annihilating anything in your path.
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About
Nuclear Option is a combat flight game set on a dynamic and realistic battlefield of the near future. Use an array of advanced weapons to change the course of battles as you intercept bombers, duel fighters, fly under the radar, or unleash the fury of nuclear weapons on enemy formations.
Each aircraft comes with an immersive cockpit featuring a situational awareness HUD, identifying nearby targets and threats. Aircraft can be flown with various controllers or with a mouse-controlled "virtual joystick", requiring no special hardware.
Experience realistic flight dynamics, with stalls, spins and g-force effects fully implemented, as each aircraft is composed of up to 50 individually simulated physics parts . A highly detailed damage model means that the condition of each part affects the way your aircraft flies.
Build your own missions using the included mission editor, and then fly your mission solo or with friends in PVP or PVE multiplayer combat.


CI-22 "Cricket" counter-insurgency aircraft
T/A-30 "Compass" light attack/trainer aircraft
UH-90 "Ibis" utility helicopter
A-19 "Brawler" close air support aircraft
SAH-46 "Chicane" stealth attack helicopter
FS-12 "Revoker" air superiority fighter
FS-20 "Vortex" VTOL fighter
VL-49 "Tarantula" Heavy vertical lift VTOL
KR-67 "Ifrit" multirole fighter
EW-25 "Medusa" electronic warfare aircraft
SFB-81 "Darkreach" strategic bomber
"Alkyon" AB-4 strike bomber


Twelve playable aircraft, each with scenarios highlighting their capabilities
Realistic flight physics, simulated across dozens of aerodynamic surfaces per aircraft
Detailed damage model with 30-50 detachable parts per aircraft
Player hosted multiplayer with a public lobby browser, supporting cooperative or competitive play
Various AI controlled ground vehicles and AI aircraft engaging in large, dynamic battles
Persistent battlefields with lingering wreckage and smoke
Targeting HUD and Target view screen in cockpits
Flight HUD with detailed aircraft parameters including angle of attack, velocity vector, climb rate, G force and radar altitude
Many guided and unguided weapons, including guns, air-to-air and air-to-ground missiles, bombs, cruise and ballistic missiles
Accurately simulated blast effects for explosions
Accurately simulated nuclear weapons with shockwave propagation
A 100km-wide map including various biomes and terrain types
A new, larger naval-themed map situated in an archipelago of occupied islands
Custom Mission Editor
Night missions with night-vision cockpit functionality
Countermeasures including IR flares and radar jammer

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Stats
All-time low is the lowest price we've recorded for this game since we started tracking it.
Languages: English**languages with full audio support
Updates
Build ids and update times come straight from Steam's PICS — the same source SteamDB reads. Patch history grows as we record new builds.
Engagement
Hours played at review time, across 155 reviews with recorded playtime.
Reviews
Themes across 155 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up
Reviews
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It's sick but it could use more depth which it sounds like they're adding with future updates
MI BOMBO
Its the best
It's like BeamNGDrive, and War Thunder had a baby, mixed in with a little bit of DCS lol
this ♥♥♥♥ way better than playing war thunder
Fun simcade with endless replayability, great physics and game mechanincs. It takes some time getting used to the tactics, but once you do, it becomes one of the most enjoyable games of its genre. It doesn't have the insane grind of War Thunder, or the tedious start-up sequences of DCS. Barely takes up disk space (2.5 GB at the time of writing), yet it offers a ton of content. Easily worth the money.
Nuke the opposing government over a 2% on beer because thats what the founding fathers intended to happen to tax dollars
Ist VR support geplant? Wäre wirklich cool. Ansonsten gefällt mir das Game sehr gut.
ORANGE The flight models take a minute to get used to but the Chicane is probably the most entertaining Helicopter ever put into a video game. Tutorial is kinda ass, so just bookmark the wiki. At first it felt very difficult to get any points but if you pick an airframe and practice with it you'll learn it's ins and outs that let you deal with pretty much anything. The Chicane for example is great for lobbing many rockets at targets without point defense, and can lob an ATGM at terrain height over a hill at anything that does. It's also able to fly so low and gives off such little heat that the only real threats you'll face are optical missiles and guns. I'm sure most other airframes have similar depth, but I haven't really experimented with them. The game runs well, it takes a bit more to run than a Chromium browser, and only really drops frames when many many nukes are going off.
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Engagement
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Audience
Audience
Games most often reviewed by the same players — an audience-affinity signal from our review sample, not full ownership data.
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