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Nuclear Design Bureau

Nuclear Design Bureau is a hardcore sandbox engineering game where you design and test nuclear devices. You are a junior engineer at the Kurchatov Institute. The State gives you a target and a warehouse full…

15 September 2026

Nuclear Design Bureau is an indie, released 15 September 2026 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Nuclear Design Bureau is

Nuclear Design Bureau was released in 2026. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Nuclear Design Bureau is a hardcore sandbox engineering game where you design and test nuclear devices. You are a junior engineer at the Kurchatov Institute. The State gives you a target and a warehouse full of dangerous materials. Some directives limit what you are allowed to use. Your job is to build a device that does what the directive asks.
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are sandbox. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Nuclear Design Bureau launched on 15 September 2026, within three weeks of Marvel's Wolverine, The Blood of Dawnwalker, Control Resonant and Onimusha: Way of the Sword.

Released around the same time: Marvel's Wolverine, The Blood of Dawnwalker, Control Resonant, Onimusha: Way of the Sword.

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When did Nuclear Design Bureau come out?
Nuclear Design Bureau was released on 15 September 2026 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

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