
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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Updates
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Reviews
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Reviews
Its like Top Gun, but for some reason I keep crashing my plane.
Controller feels awkward... Sensitivity is completely off and sensitivity setting only reduces the sticks range but not its sensitivity. It either felt too sensitive or the plane didn't turn at all
挺好的,就是飞机有点少,期待未來內容增加
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Languages: English**languages with full audio support
Hours played at review time, across 1.4K reviews with recorded playtime.
positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up
absolute f*&^king cinema. thats it, absolute f%*^ing cinema.
ONE LOVE
low end system friendly constant updates and bug fixes great game so far looking forward to seeing future content and seeing what this game holds for the future
84hours in game and i cant get enough. Way more approachable than DCS, way more rewarding than ace combat. Better with friends, but there are plenty of servers to play on!
peak option
biggest bomb i seen
DCS but unlike DCS this game is FUN! people hate on this game for no reason, they compare it to war thunder. Apples and oranges pal, they are both round, they are both fruit but completely different taste. Realistic feeling physics, fun missile age simulation, without a 20 minute startup procedure.
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