
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
TL;DR:I LOVE THIS GAME. I came to Nuclear Option after playing War Thunder and Ace Combat. I haven't touched War Thunder since the British were first added, and I haven't played Ace Combat since the Belkan War. So it's been a while. And honestly? Nuclear Option has absolutely nailed what I want from an air-combat game. I love the graphics, I love the damage modelling, and I especially love the fact that you can throw nuclear weapons around like they're going out of fashion. But the damage and physics are probably my favourite part. When you get hit, it isn't just a health bar going down. If an engine gets damaged, or part of the aircraft gets blown off or knocked out of alignment, the aircraft's actual physics change. You have to compensate for it, and you can genuinely feel the aircraft becoming harder to control. And this isn't just limited to the jets. The helicopters and quadcopters have their own physical behaviour too, which makes damage feel meaningful rather than cosmetic. There's something incredibly satisfying about limping home in an aircraft that's missing half its engine while desperately trying not to become another crater. Overall, Nuclear Option is a bloody good game. It's fun, chaotic, has great physics, and lets me do things with aircraft that would probably get me court-martialled in real life. I'd happily pay £30 for this game. 10/10. Would nuke again.
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Languages: English**languages with full audio support
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this game made my thingy go up
ts is so peak
Fun Game With High Graphics And Best Thing Of All It Has No Lag
thank you for having a corvette and patrol boat in the game they are ignored too much
super hell yeah very nice
airplane go nyeeeowwww brrrrrrt ffffwwaaaaowwwwwshshhhhh
Rare to see such a well made game for a reasonable price, with a development team as good as this. Truly awe-inspiring
Dcs will always have a place in my heart but this game is just something else, launching 8 20kt rockets and watching them all hit is one of the best experiences I’ve ever had in gaming. The controls once you’re used to them are really fun, and theres no grind, everything’s unlocked, no micro transactions, just pure fun plane sim 10/10 easily rolls war thunders ass
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