
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
This is for you like flight combat but don't want to peruse a real flight manual this is the game. I can't stress to you how perfect of a blend of arcade and real this is. Absolutely a steal in every respect.
A more accessible combat flight sim kinda game with RTS elements as well. I would recommend it to anyone who is interested in DCS but does not have a ton of money.
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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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Arcade style version of DCS, you only need a controller and you're good to go, don't need to spend $600+ on flight sim controls. Solo dev (I think he hired a few people now) with a good vision and constantly keeps updating this game with new aircraft/units/maps. Workshop missions and aircraft liveries are amazing, worth your time and money.
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Suficientemente casual para hacer un par de horas sin tener que saber los fusibles para arrancar de cada vehículo, y lo suficientemente realista para dar una sensación de pilotar un vehículo militar mas o menos realista.
Nao quer gastar dinheiro com um joystick (HOTAS)? Voce valoriza seu dinheiro e seu tempo para nao jogar War Thunder? Voce quer fugir do War Thunder de uma vez? Esse eh o jogo que esta procurando.
I really hope modding for this game takes off. Would be really cool to have huge tanks that are like land battleships or huge airships with parts that can be shot off. The planes fly amazingly, especially when using a controller. There isn't much yet, but it's really promising.
Brawler is the best aircraft in the entire game. P*LA t#rrorists will fall to the great Federal Republic of Boscali! Jokes aside, all the aircraft are really fun in their own way, and even in singleplayer, it's a tonne of fun. All we need now is the soon to be introduced VT-1 trainer, and that cool looking airlifter, and the game will be even more fun!
Very fun game, if you're looking for something not too realistic and also not too arcade-y, this is for you. Lovely game :)
good game
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