Nuclear Nightmare
Fair · Multiplayer · 2024 · Early Access
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 80% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$6.99Fair
Typical seasonal cut
$1.3980% off
- Cost per hour
- $1.84/hr
- Reviews▼
- 81% of 19,641
- Genre rank
- Top 17% Multiplayer
Holding it back: Early access, Reviews
Watch this gameOne alert at $1.39 or less.
Time and effort
- Typical playtime
- 3.8h
- To 100%
- 9h 2.4x the story
- Achievements
- 15
Price and sales
- Sales
- 22 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $0.83 October 2026
- Sale every
- 31d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 1,300 now
- Recent reviews
- 80% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 55% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 82% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
83% start to 5% rarestA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
22 discounts in the 2 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 4 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 5 days ago.
Its score sits in the top 17 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 82 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Lethal Company ($9.99, scores 91) beats it on value, while it beats Sketchy's Contract ($8.99, scores 49).
More about Nuclear Nightmare
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 41 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written December 2025 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 798 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 184 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 51 percent of the 3,169 reviews written there were positive, against 81 percent overall, and those are 21 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 3.8 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 9, 2.4 times as much.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 5 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
I loved it for what it has to offer and is very fun! hope they make a second game with new servers and implemented anti- cheat.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
would definitely recommend. utterly terrifying, mimics, mutants, and everything else. lighting and models are insanely good. flamethrowers are crazy. surprising how well this works in early access. unpopular opinion, way better than lethal. so much scarier and much more fun. best game i've played in a while. so cheap, so underrated, such a masterpiece.
This is one of the jankiest, most garbage games I have ever played and I am so disappointed to say that. I had very high hopes based on the theme and concept but the execution is simply awful. It needs significant work and I fully expect it to be abandoned before it ever gets to a playable state. The specific issues: - Enemies are nearly silent at all times. There's no context provided by the sound (where the hell...
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About the game
Venture forth as part of a specialized team of fellow players tasked with retrieving classified materials, evading the black goo virus, and the nightmarish entities it has spawned. With time running out before the US government initiates a devastating nuclear strike to contain the spreading menace.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 1060 GTX or AMD Radeon RX 5700, 13 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Nuclear Nightmare scores 52/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2909110/nuclear-nightmareReviews 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 Oct 31, price as of Nov 8. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.