Nuclear Throne

Nuclear Throne is an adventure game developed by Vlambeer and released in 2015. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on GameMaker: Studio.

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It supports multiplayer and includes co-op. Local play supports 2 players. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player. There are 59 achievements to unlock.

Nuclear Throne holds a critic score of 84 out of 100. That places it above 81% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2015 averaged 69, so it scored 15 points above the year average. Players rate it 78, 6 points lower than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.

The minimum specification calls for 1.2Ghz+, 1024 MB RAM and 256MB. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.

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Nuclear Throne launched on 5 December 2015, within three weeks of Star Wars Battlefront, Just Cause 3, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege and Rainbow Six Siege. It reviewed better than all of them. It arrived 2 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Star Wars Battlefront, Just Cause 3, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege, Rainbow Six Siege.

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