Nuclear Nightmare
Fair · Multiplayer · 2024 · Early Access
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $6.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 3.8h
- Value
- $1.84/hr
- Reviews
- 81% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 1060 GTX or AMD Radeon RX 5700, 13 GB of storage. Windows only.
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.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $1.04, set in October 2025. 20 discounts in the 2 years on record. They run about 75 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 3 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 13 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 85 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).
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 491 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 125 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.
The drop-off
83% start to 5% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
About 305 players at once, as of Sep 12.
Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Solid game✋😐🤚. Has a lot of potential, but not a lot of active players. I hope this game gets the love it deserves by the dev(s) and the players. Time will tell, I guess.
im a hater but i would actually reccomend the game, the opps r really scary if ur immersed and the environment is really immersive. its js that the weapons seem to be really op cus im shooting 3 revolver rounds in abt 0.32 seconds no cap no kirk(trade mark symbol)
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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Cite this score
Nuclear Nightmare scores 52/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). 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 price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 2, price as of Sep 24.
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