

Nuclear Option
Shockfront Studios · October 16, 2023 · Flight, Simulation, Action, Military, War
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Where to buy Nuclear Option — official stores
Nuclear Option price by region
Nuclear Option costs $10.99 in Georgia (USD), £17.75 in the United Kingdom, $19.99 in the United States, €20.49 in Europe (EUR), CA$23.99 in Canada, A$28.50 in Australia, NZ$30.99 in New Zealand, zł59.99 in Poland and R$67.99 in Brazil right now.
| Region | Best price | Official store | Key shop | Stores |
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| $10.99 | $10.99 | — | 1 | |
| £17.75 | £17.75 | — | 1 | |
| $19.99 | $19.99 | — | 1 | |
| €20.49 | €20.49 | — | 1 | |
| CA$23.99 | CA$23.99 | — | 1 | |
| A$28.50 | A$28.50 | — | 1 | |
| NZ$30.99 | NZ$30.99 | — | 1 | |
| zł59.99 | zł59.99 | — | 1 | |
| R$67.99 | R$67.99 | — | 1 |
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About Nuclear Option
Nuclear Option puts you in command of a dozen cutting-edge military aircraft armed with an arsenal of realistic weapons to dominate massive, persistent battlefields. What sets it apart is its obsessive attention to flight authenticity—from individually simulated aircraft parts and aerodynamic surfaces to detailed damage models and nuclear weapon physics—combined with a mission editor and multiplayer modes that let you build and share your own aerial combat scenarios.
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
UH-90 "Ibis" utility helicopter
A-19 "Brawler" close air support aircraftSAH-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
- Twelve 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
Nuclear Option — game info
- Platforms
- Windows
- Steam Deck
- Playable
- Player modes
- Single-player, Online PvP, Online co-op
- Controller
- Partial controller support
- PC Game Pass
- Not included
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Nuclear Option positions itself as an accessible yet deep combat flight sim that sits between the complexity of DCS and the arcade nature of Ace Combat, with players praising its quick learning curve for newcomers, robust community-created content including aircraft mods and liveries, and engaging sandbox gameplay that encourages varied tactics beyond simple dogfighting. The main complaint centers on performance issues during multiplayer matches, though players consistently note the game offers better value and more gameplay depth than comparable titles like War Thunder and DCS.
boomboom
An awesome game, just at the right place between simulator and arcade
its fun
The Game hits the perfect Balance spot between realism and fun. The tutorials are the main problem if this is your first flight sim you will potbelly need a guide but after that you will have a lot of fun nuking your friends.
There's no game like Nuclear Option in the combat flight sim genre. It looks toylike but has surprisingly deep mechanics that are still kept accessible and easy to use. Not bound by real world jet constraints it can do its own thing. And surprisingly do some things way better than competing "Combat Simulators".
it really endless fun. as u get more and more into it logistics part is the best part of the game
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