
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
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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.
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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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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.
bardzo fajna gra kupiłem ją gdy miałem załamanie psychiczne od grindu w war thunder i balans realizmu jest bardzo fajny ogólnie bardzo fajna gra nie mówiąc o modach (które można znaleść na oficjalnym discordzie nuclear option) bo mody to kompletnie co innego nie wiem jakie mody działają na czas czytania tej recenzji to trzeba sprawdzić samemu
You get to nuke your friends over minor disagreements...10/10
very fun but hard to learn. just stick with it and youll get good.
The best flight game ever made. Glory to PALA.
What more could you want from a combat flight sim? Its realistic, Small on install size, massive re-play-ability, fun to play, and light on graphics. Also, when's that Mac version? DCS is too big...
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