
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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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

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Reviews
very fun hoping for a bigger escalation style mission/gamemode
game is good but the lack of balance makes it unplayable
fantastico,lo amo,pesa pochissimo ed è perfetto,superconsigliato
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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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at last i can finally nuke them disgraceful primevans :steamhappy:
Absolutely fantastic semi-simcade (simplified controls but realistic aircraft physics and handling, thanks to the lead developer being a Beam.NG veteran) near future air combat game, something that you just don't see a lot of in any era of gaming but especially not today. It's not quite DCS or VTOL, and honestly better for it, because it means you can get the essential experience of flying a 5th gen fighter or a stealth bomber or a tiltrotor transport or... the Cricket... without having to memorise a pre-flight checklist or how to navigate three layers of MFD menus to switch your bombs from GPS to optical guidance. I have a few complaints about it, balance is occasionally *questionable* just because only a small portion of the planned gameplay mechanics and the full roster of airframes and other vehicles are in the game right now, and I really hope radar and electronic warfare mechanics get a rework at some point down the line because right now they are infuriatingly rudimentary, but that hasn't stopped me having heaps of fun in singleplayer and multiplayer. Also, the soundtrack absolutely slaps. Just smashes. More jazz fusion metal please thank you.
игра довольно прекрасная но есть один минус после обновления скипидар стал читерным если ево пытатся заглушить то он все рвано будет лететь на еще чем мне сбивать если ракеты закончились и пулемет можете как нибудь пофиксить еще ракеты с тепло красным наведение тоже стали сложными вот пример я летел в миня наводится APC8 стриляет я выпускаю тепло красные ловошуки ему ♥♥♥♥♥ уминьшаю тягу кидаю тепло красные ему ♥♥♥♥♥ легче от радарных уворачиватся чет от это во а так игра бомба жалко русский языка нет
Pretty peak
Took off from the runway as a nuke hit it and got taken apart mid flight. I love this game so much
Simulate your very own realistic Belkan war experience from the comfort of your own home (borders not included)!
super good game
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