Nuclear Option
Worth it · Multiplayer · 2023 · Early Access
The verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $19.99.
- Reviews
- 96% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Last discount ended
- 739 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 1050 Ti / Radeon RX 560 / Intel Arc A380, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.
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.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
September 2024 is where it bottomed out, at $14.39. It has gone on sale once in the 3 years tracked here, most recently in September 2024. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 106 weeks ago.
On value it sits in the top 2 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 84 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. The nearest things to it, WWII Online (free, scores 0) and FPV Kamikaze Drone ($5.99, scores 60), are both worse buys on this math.
Of the 753 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 43 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 71 percent of the 630 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.
696 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 12:47 UTC, 3 years after release.
Players
696 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 12:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Nuclear Option scores 79/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2168680/nuclear-optionReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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