
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
VT-7 "Vagrant" VTOL trainer
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


Thirteen 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

Add-ons
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fun
Very fun and good looking with modest requirements. Good blend of realism and ease of play, so you get a lot of interesting and distinct weapons along with a dynamic damage system on the aircraft without having to get a user manual to learn how to fly
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Languages: English**languages with full audio support
Hours played at review time, across 1.3K reviews with recorded playtime.
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This game is amazing think vtol vr but with out the VR and motion sickness also the PvP is crazy fun
super hell yeah very nice
hard af but fun
Tried for an hour but the game is horrible with a xbox one controller. It does say partial controller support but I mean come on there are no other controller presets apart from one which has some gameplay keys unbound and others are on weird buttons but I mean thats fine I can rebind controls, I get some people have preferences. But the actual flight input and controlling the aircraft is so weird. Too sensitive and floaty, tried adjusting stick sensitivity but its so floaty. The controller menu navigation option also doesnt work so when you get a pop up message mid gameplay you have to use a mouse or kb to close it. 45 minutes of frustration from controls before I even played the damn thing so I cant and wont comment on the gameplay. I'm sure the game is good, I'd even buy it again if they added proper controller support but I cant recommend it unless you've got a HOTAS setup which I'm sure is the intended use but the store page says it has controller support.
This game is vastly superior to war thunder, furthermore it is already great despite being in early-access.
Its fun
bro: ragebait me: sends 10 nukes all his bases. 10/10 ragebaiting
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