
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
Крутая игра потратил 26 минут и 800 рублей!
Dropped a 250kt bomb on a ejected pilot 10/10 would commit war crimes again
Handling needs a fair amount of work. Does not feel good.
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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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You get it thinking you might get 5 hours out of it, and then and up with 500. One of the best games for the price on Steam
best game ive ever played i think this game is awsome
This game is ♥♥♥♥♥♥ awesome, but it wont teach you ♥♥♥♥, so be prepared to watch a lot of youtube if you dont have a friend who already knows everything about this kinda stuff... Im serious.... You will be lucky to pass the 3rd mission with what the game itself actually teaches you....... But if youre already a vet pilot sim expert, shouldnt have any issues whatsoever. If you arent into this ♥♥♥♥ as a hobby or career, you WILL struggle. "GOOD LUUUUUCK~!"
get bomb drop bomb have fun doing then get shot down. fun buy it now.
This game is incredible. It stands in TOTAL opposition to what modern market has normalized. It feels deep and almost unknown in a sense, gives the same feeling of richness as games made with love 20 years ago. It bamboozles you, positively. The sense of SCALE is IMMENSE. It also is incredibly lightweight to run - now of course it will hammer on your PC when you crank up the unit count but loading screens are still nonexistent, menu boots instantly, it takes up less than 2 gigs on the disk. Compare that to the pathetic stinky pieces of dung with hollow graphics thaht corporate gaming industry keeps churning out. It's incomparable. It also does not run on unreal engine so that's a gigantic benefit for this game, graphics are sharp instead of being a blurry mess. It also has a mission editor with Steam Workshop. I like the VTOL Tarantula so I made a silly mission with 40 of them dogfighting with canons between skyscrapers - fulfills my wild fantasies between rich and grounded official scenarios. And for me personally, I used to play battlefield games and thought they were good balance of arcade and realistic touch. Boy I was wrong. This game NAILS realism while also being gamyfied in ways that prevent realism from becoming a chore. It's absolutely genius. It makes other games with jets and helicopters attempting to have a realistic tint feel like wasted effort. Seriously, I know it's a hot take but that's how bland they feel to me in comparison to Nuclear Option. The only area I am not so sure about is jet design - don't get me wrong I love them and I believe they are grounded in reality, on par with game's mechanics but I am not sold on the details. How is Darkreach considered a stealth bomber with jet turbines exposed frontally? Remember the turbines of the F-15 have higher radar signature than the airframe itself so... Also dedicated air brakes on stealth jets? You typically don't have them because the more seams for moving parts in the "skin" of a stealth aircraft the less effective stealth becomes. That's why seams of weapon bays on real stealth aircraft are shaped into a saw teeth pattern - to deflect radar waves and they increase cost and maintenance. But these are just my nerdy nitpicks. I think the ART direction is world-class for the designs in this game, even if it sacrifices a tiny bit of realism. So if you love realistic physics, modern military technology, jets, missiles, high-tech alarms sounding in the cockpit, pick up this game. Cheers.
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