Games like Nucleares

Remember how replayable Nucleares felt at its best? You will find a few strong contenders among these games.

Chernobyl: Simulator
You sit at Reactor 4's control desk, rods, gauges and alarms all yours to manage. Chernobyl: Simulator recreates the RBMK-1000 in serious detail, from routine startup to escalating faults and multiple endings. Slow, strict and rewarding for anyone curious how this machine actually worked.
Replayable
91% of 87 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$15.99
Rasvyat Nuclear Power Station
A co-op RBMK reactor simulator, with a detailed control room, realistic physics and authentic sound design
Replayable
80% of 166 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Save the Reactor
What if you happened to be in a control room of a nuclear reactor and something went wrong? Save the Reactor gives you the opportunity to fully experience these emotions! This simulator is great for those who like to challenge themselves and aren't afraid of difficulties!
Replayable
95% of 128 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Reactor Tech²
Become the main power engineer of the world - the builder of the most powerful power plant that feeds the whole world! You have to build your own power plant, research new technologies and make the most successful power company in 100 gaming years.
Replayable
68% of 350 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Nuclear Design Bureau
A hardcore physics sandbox where you play a junior engineer at the Kurchatov Institute. The State hands you a directive, a warehouse of dangerous materials and a blueprint grid. Paint on explosives, casings and cores, run the detonation for real, then work out why it fizzled. Design. Simulate. Detonate.
Replayable
79% of 448 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 59$9.99
Feed the Reactor
Feed fuel into a reactor, mix elements until the numbers sing, and warp across a strange galaxy with a secret. A compact incremental game with strategy, automation, and three endings you can reach in one run.
Replayable
82% of 672 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$6.99
Oxygen Not Included
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony sim about keeping cheerful clones alive inside an asteroid. You dig tunnels, pipe oxygen and water, wire up power, and fight heat, hunger, and stress. Systems collide in clever ways, failure is funny, and a working base feels earned.
Replayable
96% of 136,359 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7,548$24.99
Stationeers
Build and run a space station where every pipe, wire and gas molecule matters. Stationeers models pressure, heat, power and farming as real systems, so survival means actually understanding what you built. Play alone or with friends, start with a cold metal box, and engineer your way to a thriving base.
Replayable
88% of 8,675 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 464$34.99
Mission To Fission
Nuclear fission simulator. Control A nuclear reactor, balancing Uranium fissile material. The game features a oversimplified reactor and the R.B.M.K Reactor in Chernobyl.
88% of 25 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
How to Make an Atomic Bomb in Your Garden
One quiet Sunday, you look at your backyard and decide it needs an atomic bomb. This absurd single-player comedy sim has you raising funds, bidding on suspicious parts, turning household junk into nuclear equations and dodging nosy neighbors and the IRS. It is short, silly and surprisingly chill: a low-stakes DIY project where the stakes are only theoretical.
89% of 2,184 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$11.69
Meltdown
Meltdown is a nuclear reactor desk-job simulation where you, as a newly recruited operator, must control the reactor to keep the surrounding city powered up. Maintain the wires in the power grid, regulate the water tank’s flow, and tune the steam ventilation to keep the reactor from overheating.
Replayable
$3.39
Tin Can
Your ship exploded. Now you drift in an escape pod where every fuse, filter and wire matters, armed with a manual and your own wits. Fix systems, watch your breathing go ragged as oxygen runs low, and see how long you last before the cosmos wins.
Replayable
84% of 1,079 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$19.99

Cheaper than Nucleares

Rasvyat Nuclear Power Station

A co-op RBMK reactor simulator, with a detailed control room, realistic physics and authentic sound design

$9.99

Save the Reactor

What if you happened to be in a control room of a nuclear reactor and something went wrong?

$4.99

Nuclear Design Bureau

Draw your design on the grid, run a real detonation simulation, and figure out why it fizzled or why it did not.

$9.99

Feed the Reactor

Feed fuel into a reactor, mix elements until the numbers sing, and warp across a strange galaxy with a secret.

$6.99

How to Make an Atomic Bomb in Your Garden

Turn your backyard and a pile of household junk into a very theoretical bomb, one absurd errand at a time.

$11.69

Mission To Fission

Nuclear fission simulator. Control A nuclear reactor, balancing Uranium fissile material.

$4.99

Meltdown

Meltdown is a nuclear reactor desk-job simulation where you, as a newly recruited operator, must control the reactor to keep the surrounding city…

$3.39

Criticality

A short incremental game about splitting atoms and triggering exponentially growing chain reactions.

$6.99

COALCOM: Power Station

Pressure climbing. Drum level dropping. Three alarms and the TSO wants more power.

$12.99

Hydro

Revive a vintage hydro-electric power station and generate power for the local township.

$8.99

Rogue AI Simulator

Play as a Rogue Artificial Intelligence, in the sequel to the hit Flash game "I'm an Insane Rogue AI", played more than 4 million times!

$11.99

MESOZOIKUM

A satirical nuclear reactor management game about profit, control and the art of the acceptable catastrophe.

$4.99

Hidden gems like Nucleares

Atomcraft

Mine, smelt and automate your way across a simulated world, chasing every element to fix your ship.

$14.99

Sandustry

Sift gold from sand, build factories that grow with you, and uncover what an ancient civilization left behind.

$19.99

How to Make an Atomic Bomb in Your Garden

Turn your backyard and a pile of household junk into a very theoretical bomb, one absurd errand at a time.

$11.69

Snacktorio

Snacktorio is a level-based cooking automation game where you build & scale food production lines to feed the beasts threatening to consume your…

$7.99

FluxWerks

Build a factory inside a destructible voxel world, tunneling, managing heat and letting your nanobot swarm handle the rest.

$24.99

Code: Terraform

Write scripts that run rovers, power grids and drone fleets on a frozen planet, and watch your colony grow as the world starts answering back.

$14.99

Idea Fix

Incremental physics based game about pushing levers, clicking buttons and coming to terms with obsession.

$9.99

The Powder Toy

Mix elements, build contraptions and watch your experiments blow up in pixel-perfect fashion.

Free

Feed the Reactor

Feed fuel into a reactor, mix elements until the numbers sing, and warp across a strange galaxy with a secret.

$6.99

Nuclear Design Bureau

Draw your design on the grid, run a real detonation simulation, and figure out why it fizzled or why it did not.

$9.99

Uncle Chop's Rocket Shop

Repair strange spaceships by the manual, pay your corporate landlord, and see how long you last before it all goes wrong again.

$19.99

Upload Labs

Route files through a growing network of nodes, then tune every bottleneck until the whole machine hums.

Free

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