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Nuclear Throne is a post-apocalyptic roguelike-like top-down shooter. Not 'the final hope of humanity' post-apocalyptic, but 'humanity is extinct and mutants and monsters now roam the world' post-apocalyptic. Fight your way through the wastelands with powerful weaponry, collecting radiation to mutate some new limbs and abilities.
Nuclear Throne is a action roguelike, rogue-like and pixel graphics game
developed and published by Vlambeer.
Released on December 05th 2015 is available in English on Windows, MacOS and Linux.
It has received 17,979 reviews of which 17,279 were positive and 700 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.4 out of 10. 😍
The game is currently priced at 11.79€ on Steam, but you can find it for less on Gamivo.
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Windows
- OS *: Windows XP
- Processor: 1.2Ghz+
- Memory: 1024 MB RAM
- Graphics: 256MB
- Storage: 200 MB available space
- Additional Notes: This game is locked to 30 frames per second.
MacOS
- Additional Notes: This game is locked to 30 frames per second.
Linux
- Additional Notes: This game is locked to 30 frames per second.
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Criminally underrated in indie roguelike/roguelite circles. People are quick to point to TBOI or Hades as the definitive indie roguelike, but this game usually isn't talked about as much, which is a shame, because the balancing and tightness of design in Nuclear Throne is unparalleled. A lot of roguelikes sell themselves on the idea that "every run is different" because there are so many items and abilities. Some even actually succeed to deliver on that huge scope, and, when done well, can result in a pretty good game. TBOI is a good example of this. There are a huge amount of items, and it really is true that every run is different. However, that isn't always an upside. Sometimes "every run being different" can mean you get horrible luck and the run feels unwinnable, or largely stacked against you. Nuclear Throne avoids this approach almost entirely, which is rare for a roguelike. There's a good handful of abilities and weapons, plenty enough to keep things interesting, but it doesn't have the range and crazy run variety of something like TBOI. On paper, that sounds like a bad thing, and it would be, if it didn't mean Nuclear Throne can focus so much more on refining its basic gameplay. There are VERY few truly bad weapons in this game. The same is true for the abilities (mutations) you get as you level up. There's some variance of course, but almost every run can reliably get good enough mutations to make it at least to the "end" of the game, and quite often a decent bit further. (More on that later) The characters in Nuclear Throne are particularly well designed, having not only great character designs, a lot of charm and personality, but also being wildly different, all very fun to play, and all very well balanced in comparison to each other. Every character has unique active and passive abilities, a unique variant of a mutation that upgrades your active ability, and 2 character-specific ultra mutations that function as a way to lean further into either your active ability or passive ability as you get deeper into the run. Unbalanced options between characters exist, but are few and far between, and a lot of it can often come down to personal preference. The enemies, bosses and area hazards in Nuclear Throne are all pretty much perfect. There aren't any enemies at all that feel unfair or badly designed. Not only are the bosses and enemies well designed, but it never feels like you're at a disadvantage when it comes to health or firepower. Nearly everything in this game is a glass cannon, including yourself. Most bosses can be killed in a matter of seconds if you know what you're doing, and even the harder and tankier bosses will only take an experienced player a minute or two at most. Enemies follow the same concept, being extremely powerful and dangerous but only ever surviving a couple of seconds of concentrated assault. Naturally, this also means you die extremely easily, but the game has such a fast reload that you can get right back into your next run in less than a couple of seconds. This all lends itself to being incredibly addicting, and contributing to that intoxicating "one more run" feeling. Finally, even after thinking you've beaten the game, Nuclear Throne isn't over. If you're up for the challenge, the game doesn't technically HAVE an end. Once you discover how to loop the game, you can continue fighting through increasingly large and difficult hoards of enemies, forcing you to refine your strategies and weapon/mutation choices even further. Looping also doesn't feel unfair or uninteresting. You continue to improve and push past the seemingly insurmountable odds until loops feel like normal gameplay. It's a difficult challenge, but one that is extremely gratifying and rewards the player fine-tuning their skills and their use of the tools available to them. In summary, Nuclear Throne has an amazing core gameplay loop, backed by a killer soundtrack and great sound effects, outstanding character and location designs, and extremely indepth item and ability balancing, making use of a smaller but more focused group of weapons and upgrades. also it has yv in it #verifyvenuz
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Is Nuclear Throne the best roguelike of all time? I can't believe it's taken me over 10 years to review this game. With nearly 300 hours of pure insanity this is only of my most played Steam games of all time. Nuclear Throne's beauty and depth lies in its simplicity and execution. This is just dopamine-fueled adrenaline-pumping screen-filled guns-blazing enemies-exploding players-screaming madness. No game does it better than this. It's clean, polished, disgusting, high-octane brain-melting fun. No, that's not a metaphor, there's literally a character called Melting which is a brain with a gun that causes the whole screen to explode. I'm not sure what else to say. They don't make games like this anymore. This is as good as it gets and they're still updating it for free after 10 years. Hell, there's even something that MOST Roguelikes including Hades don't have which is online 4 player co-op multiplayer if you use the Nuclear Throne Together mod - which is built into the game all you have to do is select it from the Properties->Beta tab. So yeah, best roguelike of all time, don't @ me.
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Still being updated 10 years after its release. These devs are legends.
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A game that has inspired hundreds, yet a true successor has yet to arrive. Back in the day, I acquired it through not-so-legitimate means, but as soon as life changed and I had better income, I bought it without hesitation—for myself and all my friends. This game deserves every cent.
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Nearly 9 years after its release, Nuclear Throne is still the best roguelite, and easily earns its spot alongside Binding of Isaac, FTL, and Spelunky. Addictive, perfectly tuned, face-paced gameplay. Unique, charming art and environments. Iconic soundtrack. A huge variety of characters, each with mechanics so fun and unique, I'm never sure which one is my favorite. Unbelievably rewarding to improve at. Really, I can count on one hand the amount of games that are straight up this much fun. 10/10.
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Nuclear Throne is currently priced at 11.79€ on Steam.
Nuclear Throne is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 11.79€ on Steam.
Nuclear Throne received 17,279 positive votes out of a total of 17,979 achieving an impressive rating of 9.37.
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Nuclear Throne was developed and published by Vlambeer.
Nuclear Throne is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Nuclear Throne is playable and fully supported on MacOS.
Nuclear Throne is playable and fully supported on Linux.
Nuclear Throne offers both single-player and multi-player modes.
Nuclear Throne offers both Co-op and PvP modes.
There is a DLC available for Nuclear Throne. Explore additional content available for Nuclear Throne on Steam.
Nuclear Throne does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Nuclear Throne supports Remote Play on TV and Remote Play Together. Discover more about Steam Remote Play.
Nuclear Throne is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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Online players
103
Developer
Vlambeer
Publisher
Vlambeer
Release
05 Dec 2015
Platforms
Remote Play
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