
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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i love doing war crimes in this game
[h1][b]"Fission Decision" has rapidly become one of my favorite games ever, full stop![/b][/h1] I am slightly biased as I do love flying war planes / helis more than just about anything else in a game. I mostly play PVP and I run a full HOTAS (Virpil throttle & stick, MFG Pedals) with Track IR and this game really scratches my itch to get some high fun A2A and A2G action at a decent pace and not worry about startup sequences / ultra realism like in DCS, or slower (but very fun) flying you can do in Arma III; and I have over 7k hours in Arma, mostly flying. There is just a very magical element to Nuclear Option that hits all the right notes, including the soundtrack which is just the chef's kiss of awesomeness. I will literally get the saxophone rock songs invading my mind at random times not even playing, it is truly that good. The planes and helis are all fictional in the most realistic and kick-ass ways imaginable. The liveries that are available via the workshop mods are endless, and you can swap liveries every time you die if you like from a drop down menu of what you have installed, even on multiplayer servers which is fantastic. The learning curve is pretty easy if you have played other flight games like Arma III as far as weapons types and their deployment against various foes. The satisfaction of a long range or BVR kill on an enemy is always satisfactory, but getting kills with your guns in a dogfight (especially if you are out of missiles) really gives a feeling of (air) superiority... so much so you won't even care when you get hit with a missile on your way back to base! If you like flying games that require a bit of skill, if you have a HOTAS especially, you will definitely enjoy this game! the Dev team is continually putting out updates, fixes, and new aircraft. Do not wait for this game to get out of early access, it is already amazing. Do not wait for a sale, you get your moneys worth. If you are reading this, just get the game, it is a (nuclear) blast!
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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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Just Brilliant.
Built for having fun, not enslaving you. The modding community is unhinged, dedicated and very talented.
you learn to fly in loki 1 second after playing 5 stars
Nuke the opposing government over a 2% on beer because thats what the founding fathers intended to happen to tax dollars
Fun simcade with endless replayability, great physics and game mechanincs. It takes some time getting used to the tactics, but once you do, it becomes one of the most enjoyable games of its genre. It doesn't have the insane grind of War Thunder, or the tedious start-up sequences of DCS. Barely takes up disk space (2.5 GB at the time of writing), yet it offers a ton of content. Easily worth the money.
i give the china people a 250kt nuke. very nice game.
Decently new player friendly, good tutorials. Could have better gamepad support, the menus either don't work with the gamepad or are hard to navigate. Graphics are decent, the 2 current maps are expansive and detailed, and every aircraft is fully modeled like the cars in beamng, destruction included :) 10/10 would get shredded by a nuke shockwave again 👍
i play wt and this they are both sooo good and i would say Nuclear option is a better at more specifics and wt is better for veriety and mutiplayer
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