
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
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Reviews
What is there to say about this game? Oh, I know. The controls for my HOTAS (the T.Flight Full Kit X) do not work cleanly out of the box even when correct bindings are put in place. Why would I want to waste my time on a game where the controls don't even work? If you sort this glaring issue out I might consider buying the game, but for now it's a refund.
The game is far too difficult to understand, and I found it too difficult to learn how to play effectively and wasn't what I expected when buying
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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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The best flight sim on the market and it's not even close. Identity isn't defined solely by what you are, but also by what you [i]are not.[/i] Nuclear Option [i]is not[/i]: [list] [*] Monetarily Expensive [*] Storage Expensive [*] Hard to run [*] Filled with microtransactions [*] Full of grinding [*] Hard to pickup and play [*] Boring [/list] In other words, Nuclear Option delivers the best parts of military flight sims without all the baggage that players have gotten used to tolerating in their games. It is hands-down the most fun I've ever had flying an aircraft in a video game, and I can get straight into the action within a minute of starting the game. While the planes are all beautiful and fun to fly, I especially appreciate the other assets within the battlespace. You've got tanks, IFVs, SPAA, naval assets, factories... there's plenty of targets to choose, [i]and[/i] they all affect the battlefield's dynamics. The music is also peak (UH-90 Ibis Theme my beloved). 10/10, get it [i]now[/i] and enjoy a game that respects your time and money.
honestly, only game that lets you drop 250kt of explosives on civilians. i love it.
this game made my thingy go up
airplane go nyeeeowwww brrrrrrt ffffwwaaaaowwwwwshshhhhh
ts is so peak
not fun.
Rare to see such a well made game for a reasonable price, with a development team as good as this. Truly awe-inspiring
hard but fun
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