
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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Reviews
Most misleading title of the year goes to Nuclear Option! I mean, it's also very accurate; nukes are absolutely an option; but it brings to mind the War Game genre - when it really is is a simucade that strikes a perfect balance between realism in it's physics and game mechanics, while also getting into the action fast and keeping a steady flow of adrenaline going. Letting you feel like an Ace Combat protagonist while also feeling grounded. The game's balance ensures that every aircraft and weapon has a niche, and the full gamut of mission archetypes emerge naturally from first principles; combat air patrol, close air support, counter air defense, deep strike and so on. I really have no notes, it's a great game and continues to grow with every update. With workshop support and an easy to use mission creator, there is no shortage of missions to play if the stock ones are growing stale. Personally, I really love the flying counter air defense and close air support missions in helicopters, it's a rare treat to see helicopters get their physics handled with as much love as we see here.
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Languages: English**languages with full audio support
Hours played at review time, across 1.4K reviews with recorded playtime.
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Fricken fantastic, it's a great time playing with friends, or dorking around with friends. If you are into hardcore hardcore realism, don't jump in expecting it here, but there is a decent amount of physics that will teach you some basic principles of flight, but in a forgiving way. (overpowered jet engines also help you brute force the issues an inexperienced pilot would face).
considering i haven't played even a halfway flight simulator before this, i half expected to be refunding the game. turns out "stealthily" attacking the radar building and not realizing until it's too late that there are rocket launchers defending it is more fun than it sounds also the ost is amazing, the only problem is that it doesn't play dynamically. i've heard that it's on the roadmap though
my planes have furries on them
PEAK GAME BUY THIS
honestly amazing game,dont know what else to say.also do not cheap out on buying the soundtrack as its only bangers !
Peak
Great blend between simulation and simplification. Will not try to empty your pockets like war thunder.
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