
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
Best dev, best game, best physics and damage model. Immersive aircrafts and an amazing game, stupid fun ! As opposed to WT.
DCS but better
Quel belle pépite! Equipé d'un hotas, après une petite heure de mission solo/ tuto, un vrai plaisir. Du fight dans les airs sur de longue session, on est a mi chemin entre un DCS et un jeu arcade. La physique est bonne, il y a une bonne courbe d'apprentissage et a ce prix c'est assez fou. Bien joué aux dev, ne lâcher rien ce jeu en vaut clairement le coup même si vous n'avez pas la force marketing derrière.
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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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Very fun game
Incredible flight simcade, if you liked AC7 but wanted something other than WT or DCS this is it. Check out the mods on the Nuclear Option Mod Manager (NOMM) for elevated gameplay and/or new aircraft
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VERY FUN
O meio termo perfeito entre a complexidade de sistemas e modelos de voo de um simulador como DCS e a ação rápida, intuitiva e cinemática de Ace Combat. Se esse game tivesse um orçamento de um AA talvez fosse o melhor jogo de combate aéreo do mercado.
战雷单机版说是
The game is marketed as simple, but there is absolutely nothing simple about it; I managed to complete the first mission, but after that, I couldn't get anything done due to the absurd difficulty. There is no way to change the difficulty level other than through mission customization—which is very limited and useless anyway, since some settings don't work. The game is full of bugs—I won't list them all, as I understand it's still in Early Access and such issues are to be expected—but the fact remains that the game is unplayable due to its difficulty, especially considering it was supposed to be simpler than a title like DCS, for instance. I consider this a real shame, because the game has immense potential.
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