
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
My favorite Airsim out of the ones ive played cant wait to see what the games becomes in the long run
Very fun to play with friends, definitely interesting to be able to edit your own missions. Interesting outcomes I mean. Decently realistic, and runs surprisingly well on a lower end laptop.
nearly 100 hours into the game and there are so many stratergies to play no two games can ever play the exact same way just dont drop 20 nukes at once even my mates godly pc severly dropped frames but at least the slideshow looked cool 10/10 would reccommend
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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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This game is really fun and is well optimised from what i see, there are many varieties of aircraft from stealth bombers to large vtol logistics and gunship helicopters. Overall, this game is fun for anybody who likes milsim planes without being too realistic and still being fun.
Pretty much everything you want out of a combat flight sim like this. Arcade enough to be easy to fly even on controller, being sim enough to still have engaging flight gameplay with mechanics like overspeed and G-Lock. Many different aircraft to fill different roles like ground striking, air superiority and even electronic warfare. Great level designer as well. Overall fantastic game and a credit to the genre
Very good
Really really fun sim-cade middle ground, great performance, excellent music.
Absolutely awesome plane game, feels much nicer to fly than AC and even better than PW would you believe it, anyway it's loads of fun, non of the tons of unnecessary procedures you'd get from a proper flight sim, you can just take off with your WASD and start yeeting agms at your nearest unfriendly convoy, 11.3/10 would recommend, if you're sleeping on it, my advice is to wake up
Eres de PC?, jugaste KSP?, Jugaste AC?, jugaste otro juego de aviones mas realista?, ah bueno, esta es la convinacion de simplicidad de AC con controles igual de complejos que en KSP con una pisca de realismo "SIM" este es tu gran juego para pasarla divertido mientras destruyes tanquesitos y areonaves mientras tu nave termina volviendose un dorito mordisqueado el videojuego
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