
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
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
you can place vehicles on ships
yes
Easy to jump into flight sim-lite game with dense mechanics and systems that give it a low floor and a high ceiling. Blowing ♥♥♥♥ up feels awesome, the datalink system is interesting as ♥♥♥♥, everything feels great to fly. Could not recommend this game enough I wish more of my friends played it. Also the scariest ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ plane in the game plays prog rock when you take off as if its not about to go kill 400,000 civilians.
Top Tier game
Its literally everything I wanted out of either DCS or War Thunder, Good flight and damage models, addicting gameplay, ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ killer ass music, and anything else that I didn't know I wanted. It's worth the 20 bucks, trust me.
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 !
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Engagement
DAU/MAU are modeled from peak concurrent players (≈×8 and ×28) — Steam publishes no active-user counts, so treat these as rough estimates, not reported figures.
Audience
Audience
Games most often reviewed by the same players — an audience-affinity signal from our review sample, not full ownership data.
Estimated from the language of this game's reviews — a proxy for where players are, not official Steam demographics.
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