Nuclear Option

Nuclear Option

Shockfront Studios · 2023 · Flight, Simulation, Action, Military, War

PC
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About Nuclear Option

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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.

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

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

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Recommended Jul 18, 2026
Its the best
Recommended Jul 18, 2026
It's like BeamNGDrive, and War Thunder had a baby, mixed in with a little bit of DCS lol
Recommended Jul 18, 2026
PEEEAAAAAAKKKKKKKK. I LOVE 2 LARP!
Recommended Jul 18, 2026
this ♥♥♥♥ way better than playing war thunder
Recommended Jul 17, 2026
Fun simcade with endless replayability, great physics and game mechanincs. It takes some time getting used to the tactics, but once you do, it becomes one of the most enjoyable games of its genre. It doesn't have the insane grind of War Thunder, or the tedious start-up sequences of DCS. Barely takes up disk space (2.5 GB at the time of writing), yet it offers a ton of content. Easily worth the money.
Recommended Jul 17, 2026
Nuke the opposing government over a 2% on beer because thats what the founding fathers intended to happen to tax dollars

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