Games Like Nucleares

Stationeers puts you in control of the construction and management of a space station to run by yourself or online with your friends. Complex atmospheric, electrical, manufacturing, agriculture, and gravitational systems require your thought and management at all times!

Why similar: Science 46.2% ★, Logic 20.5%, Resource Management 19.2%, Sci-fi 14%

Why You'll Like It: It offers deep, complex system management and realistic physics that will appeal to anyone who enjoys the technical side of Nucleares.

The most scientifically accurate space warfare simulator ever made. Now with Steam Workshop!

Why similar: Science 36% ★, Realistic 21.4%, Simulation 15.6%, Strategy 12.6%, Sci-fi 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: This is a hardcore engineering and physics simulator that mirrors the scientific rigor found in Nucleares.

Chornobyl Liquidators is not a fantastic tale of exploring the Zone. It's a story about real people facing a real threat — the CNPP disaster. Invisible radiation, KGB, difficult moral choices... Do you have enough courage and strength to take on this challenge?

Why similar: Immersive Sim 41.6%, Simulation 22.1%, First-Person 21.3%, Action 8.5%, Singleplayer 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: This game captures the same high-stakes, first-person atmosphere of managing nuclear-related disasters in a realistic setting.

You've barely managed to escape your exploding spaceship. Now in an old escape pod, you hurtle through space at the mercy of the cosmos. With no knowledge of the pod’s complex systems, your life depends on a technical manual and your own wits. How long can you survive?

Why similar: Science 21.1% ★, Realistic 14.2%, Immersive Sim 11.1%, Resource Management 10.3%, Sci-fi 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a claustrophobic, high-stress experience where you must manage critical life-support systems to survive.

Nuclear war simulator is a detailed realistic simulation and visualization of large-scale nuclear conflicts with a focus on humanitarian consequences. It lets you design conflict scenarios and estimate the consequences using a population density map and realistic weapons effects.

Why similar: Modern 38.4%, Realistic 31.5%, Simulation 23.2%, Strategy 5.4%, Singleplayer 1.5%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the thematic focus on nuclear science and large-scale disaster management through a realistic simulation lens.

Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.

Why similar: Resource Management 47.8%, Simulation 19%, Strategy 16.3%, Realistic 9.9%, 3D 2.4%

Why You'll Like It: This title excels at deep industrial and energy grid management, requiring players to balance complex production chains.

Equipped with cutting-edge salvaging tech, carve & slice spaceships to recover valuable materials. Upgrade your gear to take on more lucrative contracts and pay your billion credits debt to LYNX Corp!

Why similar: Sci-fi 35.3%, Simulation 25.9%, First-Person 18.4%, Strategy 11.9%, Singleplayer 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: This game features first-person industrial work with a heavy focus on realistic physics and careful, step-by-step deconstruction.

Barotrauma is a 2D co-op submarine simulator – in space, with survival horror and RPG elements. Steer your submarine, complete missions, fight monsters, fix leaks, operate machinery, man the guns and craft items, and stay alert: danger in Barotrauma doesn’t announce itself!

Why similar: Sci-fi 37.5%, Simulation 28.4%, Strategy 20%, Action 9.4%, Singleplayer 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: Managing a complex submarine in a hostile environment requires the same level of technical vigilance and disaster prevention as a nuclear reactor.

Build and maintain a power grid for a constantly growing population, while fighting off all kinds of disasters in this thrilling resource management experience. It's time for you to give "Power to the People"! Do you have what it takes to keep the lights on?

Why similar: Modern 26.4%, Resource Management 23.9%, Realistic 17%, Simulation 12.3%, Strategy 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: It directly challenges players to manage energy grids and prevent blackouts, mirroring the core objective of Nucleares.

Build and grow your very own computer repair enterprise as you learn to diagnose, fix and build PCs. With real-world licensed components and comprehensive hardware and software simulation, you can plan and bring your ultimate PC to life.

Why similar: Immersive Sim 28.1%, Modern 19.2%, Simulation 18%, Realistic 14.7%, First-Person 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a detailed first-person technical simulation of complex hardware maintenance and assembly.

Renovate & build II World War tanks. Experience highly detailed & realistic simulation game. Take tanks fully apart by using different tools. Transform them from rusty and ruined to fully working. Check them on the training ground, sell or put into your own museum.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 23.5%, Realistic 22.2%, Resource Management 15.7%, First-Person 13.2%, Simulation 12.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a technical, first-person simulation of heavy machinery restoration and maintenance.

Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!

Why similar: Resource Management 45.2%, First-Person 14.4%, Sci-fi 12.8%, Simulation 12.2%, Strategy 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a first-person perspective on large-scale industrial factory building and automation.

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.

Why similar: Science 52.1% ★, Resource Management 19.3%, Strategy 10.6%, Simulation 10.3%, 3D 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the technical and economic aspects of managing a power plant facility.

Interact with elements and molecules in a way that you have never before! Observe them and make them react with each other in the sandbox mode. Synthesize every molecule in the quest mode. Discover countless macromolecules and the elegancy of chemistry.

Why similar: Science 36.1% ★, Experimental 20.1% ★, Logic 13.4%, Realistic 12%, First-Person 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the scientific and logical aspects of chemical simulation, appealing to the educational side of Nucleares.

Take over the duties of a border guard inspector in a communist country of the 80's. Smuggling, corruption and forgery are the order of the day here. Be vigilant and earn the respect of your superiors.

Why similar: Realistic 21.2%, FPS 20%, Immersive Sim 19.1%, First-Person 14.6%, Simulation 13.4%

Why You'll Like It: This first-person simulation combines procedural technical tasks with a high-pressure, realistic work environment.

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!

Why similar: Logic 39.7%, Simulation 38.6%, Sci-fi 19.6%, Singleplayer 2.1%

Why You'll Like It: It is a direct simulation experience centered entirely on the challenge of managing a nuclear reactor.

Work your way to a service empire. Get your hands dirty in a highly realistic simulation game that pays major attention to details. Pay a visit to a new Auction house and buy cars in various conditions. Expand your range of services by investing in a new work space and equipment.

Why similar: Realistic 30.7%, Simulation 26.4%, Immersive Sim 17.6%, First-Person 11.7%, 3D 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: The focus on detailed, first-person technical maintenance and component repair is highly similar to the hands-on nature of Nucleares.

Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.

Why similar: Resource Management 62.5%, Strategy 18.5%, Simulation 11.7%, Indie 3.7%, Singleplayer 3.6%

Why You'll Like It: It is the definitive experience for players who enjoy complex system automation and energy management.

🚀 Become a Space Pioneer by building and managing a station of your own on the orbit of distant planets! Focus on design and management or fulfill objectives to progress. 🛰️ Explore, Build and Prosper!

Why similar: Science 25.9% ★, Artificial Intelligence 18.1%, Resource Management 13%, Immersive Sim 12.6%, Realistic 11%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on space-based industrial and resource management with a strong emphasis on 3D system design.

Take on the role of the attack squad and complete a variety of diverse missions ranging from apartment fires to rescuing people and many more. Get an overview of the situation at the scene and decide strategically how to tackle the upcoming tasks depending on the situation!

Why similar: Immersive Sim 18.5%, Investigation 14.2%, Realistic 13.7%, Simulation 12.2%, Strategy 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: This first-person simulation focuses on the high-pressure duties of emergency responders managing complex equipment.

A dynamic soft-body physics vehicle simulator capable of doing just about anything.

Why similar: Realistic 49.3%, Simulation 29.3%, First-Person 12.7%, Singleplayer 4.6%, Action 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its unmatched realistic physics engine provides a deep technical simulation experience for enthusiasts of realistic systems.

A casual heavy equipment experience. Mine ore, Move dirt, Build and repair.

Why similar: Realistic 31.8%, Simulation 23.9%, First-Person 19%, Resource Management 11.9%, 3D 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: It features a technical simulation of industrial mining processes that requires careful operation of heavy machinery.

Become a Space Mechanic! Get your hands dirty, explore the depths of space and repair broken machinery. Diagnose problems using diagrams and tools, perform repairs, manage your resources and watch the simulated machinery come alive. Or just gaze upon the beauty of the Solar System.

Why similar: Science 34.4% ★, Immersive Sim 16.8%, Realistic 14.7%, Sci-fi 10.3%, Simulation 10%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a first-person technical repair simulation set in the challenging environment of space.

Metro trip simulator

Why similar: Experimental 30% ★, Modern 19.1%, Simulation 18.9%, Walking Simulator 15.5%, First-Person 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: It provides an atmospheric, first-person simulation of operating complex train machinery in a realistic setting.

Explore a drowned Earth, restore lost systems, and raise the last human seeds in this first-person survival-crafting adventure. Build, scavenge, defend, and launch humanity back to the stars.

Why similar: Sci-fi 30.9%, First-Person 27%, Simulation 24.8%, Action 10.1%, Singleplayer 7.3%

Fresh Start is a relaxing single player game, in which you embark on a mission to clean up the world and restore nature to its fresh and colorful shape. Watch as the world changes in front of your eyes as you help animals, solve puzzles and grow plants around you.

Why similar: FPS 20.7%, Realistic 20.1%, Immersive Sim 17.9%, First-Person 14.7%, Simulation 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a first-person, task-oriented simulation that rewards attention to detail and methodical work.

Create your farm and let the good times grow! Harvest crops, tend to animals, manage productions, and take on seasonal challenges.

Why similar: Immersive Sim 35.6%, Simulation 28.7%, First-Person 21.9%, 3D 13.7%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a deep, realistic simulation of operating complex heavy machinery and managing agricultural systems.

Buy an abandoned gas station and restore it to its full glory. Renovate, upgrade and expand upon the offered services to keep up with your clients demands.

Why similar: Simulation 35%, Realistic 33.1%, First-Person 21.6%, Singleplayer 6%, Indie 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a first-person management experience where you must maintain various technical systems to keep a facility running.

Visit the largest ship graveyard in the world. A dozen kilometers of beach filled with wrecks. Hundreds of ships wrecked on the coast. Thousands of tons of steel. Choose the most valuable ship for you and start the adventure. Play as one of the workers during the most dangerous work in the world!

Why similar: Realistic 28.7%, Simulation 19.8%, First-Person 17.8%, Strategy 14%, Action 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a first-person industrial work experience focused on resource management and dismantling large structures.

Fly near-future aircraft with immersive physics on intense battlefields, facing land, air and sea threats. Wage war against AI or other players with an array of potent weapons. Wield tactical and strategic nuclear weapons, capable of annihilating anything in their path.

Why similar: Sci-fi 23.3%, Realistic 23%, Simulation 20.4%, First-Person 14.7%, 3D 9.6%

Step into the critical role of a baggage security operative in Airport X-Ray Simulator. As part of the backbone of airport security, you are the last line of defense against prohibited or illegal items making their way onto an aircraft or into the airport.

Why similar: Investigation 21.6%, Immersive Sim 19.5%, Modern 14.3%, Realistic 11.6%, Simulation 10.1%

Fight against brain-rot in this story-driven educational physics puzzle game. You will need to learn and apply high school physics concepts to solve increasingly challenging problems and uncover a galaxy spanning plot. When you have finished, you will be able to take a college level physics course.

Why similar: Science 35.5% ★, Walking Simulator 17%, Logic 15.7%, Simulation 9.5%, Sci-fi 9.3%

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

Why similar: Simulation 45.7%, First-Person 27.4%, 3D 18.4%, Indie 8.5%

Build and manage your own food processing factory. Automate production with machines, work together with skilled employees to keep operations running smoothly, expand your facility, and keep inventory under control as you grow from a small workshop into a large scale production facility.

Why similar: Immersive Sim 23.6%, Resource Management 18.1%, Artificial Intelligence 14.2%, Realistic 13.3%, Simulation 13%

An incremental unfolding game about feeding fuel into a reactor. Combine elements to produce energy, unlock exotic technologies and explore a strange galaxy.

Why similar: Strategy 43.8%, Simulation 34.6%, Sci-fi 18.2%, Singleplayer 3.4%

Game inspired by SETI. Take the role of a scientist to find an extraterrestrial signal .Control massive Radio Antennas by using interactive control in your Observatory. Detect , download and decode unknown or story telling signals. Manage and Maintain an electrical system to improve your systems and make it more efficient.

Why similar: Science 53% ★, Simulation 31.4%, Indie 9.1%, First-Person 5.6%, Singleplayer 0.9%

As a moustached soviet nuclear missile operator, you’re the last frontier of your motherland’s defense. Survive a freezing Siberian winter, untangle nasty bear intrigues and adapt to always changing environment in this cold war simulator.

Why similar: Investigation 34.7%, Logic 21.1%, Simulation 15.5%, First-Person 14.9%, 3D 8.9%

A new Observer Gametype where you take on the role of an Observer tasked with guarding the HQ of the Project 13 Corp. . Prevent any Observer Prisoner, each potentially containing a anomaly, from infiltrating the HQ. Equipped with a high-tech binocular, your observation skills are the key to success.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 27.1%, Immersive Sim 21.2%, Simulation 19.2%, Realistic 16.7%, First-Person 11.8%

Step into the world of IT! Diagnose network issues, manage servers, and repair devices while handling tasks under strict SLAs. Choose your career path, from HelpDesk to IT Project Manager. Develop real IT knowledge and climb the ranks in this realistic IT simulation!

Why similar: Immersive Sim 30.9%, Realistic 26%, First-Person 17.1%, Simulation 16.7%, Indie 5.4%

Chernobyl, USSR, 1986. Three nuclear plant workers go on a daring mission to prevent a radioactive fallout that would affect half of Europe. Every moment is permanent, and all is at stake.

Why similar: Realistic 36.8%, First-Person 24.1%, Simulation 19.4%, 3D 13.8%, Singleplayer 5.9%

Scene Investigators is a hardcore deductive reasoning game for fans of the "true crime" genre. Step into re-created crime scenes, observe closely for pieces of evidence, analyze possible motives behind the crimes, and uncover what truly happened.

Why similar: Investigation 24.8%, Modern 16.8%, Logic 15.2%, Immersive Sim 13.5%, Realistic 12.8%

Command the checkpoint in a collapsing city. Screen survivors, manage scarce resources, and hold back the undead. Every choice matters and one mistake could unleash the plague beyond your walls.

Why similar: Realistic 20.9%, Immersive Sim 19.7%, Resource Management 18.9%, Simulation 14.4%, First-Person 14%

Techtonica is a first-person factory automation game with a gripping mystery about mining your way out from the depths of an alien planet. Explore bioluminescent caves, mold destructible terrain, construct a massive subterranean factory. Dig your way toward answers & discover the secrets of Calyx.

Why similar: Resource Management 24.2%, Immersive Sim 20.6%, Simulation 16.3%, Strategy 12.7%, Sci-fi 11.9%

Beer Factory is a business simulation and management game. Take the challenge and manage your own beer factory, employees, production lines, as well as the import and export of merchandise.

Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 27.3%, Resource Management 19.7%, Realistic 14.9%, Simulation 14.6%, First-Person 12.9%

Learn CPU architecture with puzzles

Why similar: Logic 58.8%, Simulation 25%, Sci-fi 12.7%, Singleplayer 3.6%

Storm Chasing Simulator

Why similar: Science 35.6% ★, Realistic 15.9%, Immersive Sim 15.5%, Simulation 9.1%, First-Person 6.7%

Use computers (via GUIs or the command line), unlock doors, crawl through vents, fight enemies head on or find other ways to neutralize or avoid them...

Why similar: Immersive Sim 24.3%, Robots 20.2%, FPS 17.3%, First-Person 12.7%, Sci-fi 7.6%

Take Notes is a puzzle game set in the near future within a bunker filled with 40 unique puzzles. Prepare yourself for a mind-bending adventure where every puzzle solved brings you one step closer to stopping the unthinkable

Why similar: Logic 18.9%, Walking Simulator 18.2%, Modern 17.8%, Realistic 16%, First-Person 10.9%

The Riot Police need great operators like you. Protect the peace in real places and manifestations. Your ability, perception, and skills will be tested. Control the Uncontrollable!

Why similar: Modern 31.2%, Realistic 20.6%, Resource Management 17.8%, Simulation 12.5%, Strategy 9.6%

Take On Mars places you right in the middle of mankind’s most exciting undertaking. Start out in the seat of a rover operator, finish as the first human to have ever set foot on the Red Planet.

Why similar: Science 54.6% ★, Simulation 25.4%, Realistic 14.8%, First-Person 3.7%, Singleplayer 1.4%

Build the new future of Europe! Flip, renovate, repair and rebuild places destroyed during World War 2. Get to know the history and stories of civilians. Play an immersive building simulator with grappling storytelling.

Why similar: Immersive Sim 24.1%, Realistic 23.2%, Resource Management 21.3%, Simulation 14.2%, First-Person 13.5%

Satellite Command is a realistic, relaxing astrophysics simulator. Complete contracts with real data, launch and take control of ever more powerful Satellites, research advanced technology and build your Space Agency!

Why similar: Science 39.6% ★, Modern 16%, Immersive Sim 15.5%, Simulation 10.4%, Strategy 7%

Take on the electrician role and learn the profession's basics! Install sockets, repair worn-out equipment, assemble broken appliances, replace light bulbs, and lay wires at your customers' homes. Be sure to check everything twice, with electricity there are no jokes!

Why similar: Immersive Sim 26.4%, Realistic 16.9%, Simulation 14.8%, First-Person 14%, Logic 13%

Build and manage a massive industrial network of factories, mines, and farms. Employ a fleet of trains, trucks, and robotic drones. In the age of automation, efficiency is survival!

Why similar: Resource Management 27.1%, Simulation 23.9%, Strategy 18.5%, Robots 15.5%, Sci-fi 8.4%

Explore a handcrafted survival game with an emphasis on crafting and base building. Export manufactured goods to earn funding, manage colonists, defend against hostile aliens, and work towards terraforming Ceres from a frozen ball of ice to a tropical paradise.

Why similar: Simulation 24.9%, Immersive Sim 21.5%, Sci-fi 18.4%, First-Person 15.7%, Strategy 12.6%

Learn the ins and outs of one of the world's most dangerous professions. Searching, lockpicking, hacking, disarming, operating under pressure. Welcome to the typical day of Sapper. Courage is forged in the sounds of ticking bombs and the feeling of cold sweat on your back.

Why similar: Realistic 33.7%, First-Person 27.7%, Simulation 24.8%, Singleplayer 7.2%, Indie 6.6%