
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

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Reviews
cool game i like the big warfare aspect, would be cool if we could also be ground vehicles or whoever we want but thats not the focus of this game !!
It's good.
Good stuff. Frustrating to get the hang of it and when you're forced to take lower-tier aircraft while everybody else destroys everything before you can, but it's super duper fun. 10/10 would turn my spine into mush trying to dodge IR missiles in a Revoker again.
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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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Legalize nuclear bombs NOW. Best flight sim I've ever played, it's Ace Combat controls with realistic physics and weapons. Play this game right now.
peak
Its a fighter jet game, its good at what it does
It's stupidly fun. although there's a bug where setting the AI unit count to a high number (or forcing the ai to use only one aircraft) will often result in the game forgetting to mark a spawn as being in use when something spawns there, causing both you and AI aircraft to constantly spawn on top of other aircraft that literally just spawned. I have a mission idea that I believe would be quite cool and open up countless opportunities for crazy maps, this is a tutorial mission called "AA Darkreach", in which you fly a SB-81 with Tusko-B missiles, PAB-250LR glide bombs, and some cruise missiles, in this mission your squadron has destroyed a enemy airbase base, but there's some Helicopters that were fixed using parts from the nearby scrapyard (which wasn't targeted because honestly it doesn't make sense to blow up), you are tasked with exterminating the helicopters and are taught that you can use the air-to-ground munitions you have against aircraft, by targeting them like you would with any air-to-air weapon. Using air-to-ground as air-to-air is extremely rewarding to do stuff like this, plus its a pretty obscure thing you can do and an AWSOME gimmick to play around with. Other than that the game gets 100000000000000 out of 10 from me, with like 10000000 points being because of the gimmick.
tuff game
fajna
Impressively good game in so many ways. Very smart design and the right level of realism for a good time. I look forward to seeing what else they add during development.
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