Comparison

Nuke Simulator 2024 vs Radioactive

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Nuke Simulator 2024

Explore the destructive power of nuclear weapons from various countries. Visualize their effects on a 3D map, see realistic animations, and understand the catastrophic impact on destruction and population.

Highlights
  • Select nuclear weapons from multiple countries
  • Visualize effects on a 3D map
  • Accurate depiction of weapon power (kilotons)
  • Statistical data on destruction and affected population
  • Realistic animations of bomb drops and mushroom clouds
  • Location selection by dragging or searching
Features
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Select a nuclear weapon from the arsenals of various countries including the United States, Russian Federation, China, the United Kingdom, France, India, Pakistan, Israel, and North Korea, and visualize its effects on a 3D map. The simulation will accurately depict the power of each nuclear weapon in kilotons, along with additional information such as the count and production year. Furthermore, the simulation provides statistical data on the catastrophic effects of nuclear weapons at a selected location, including the extent of destruction and the number of people affected. Users can also experience realistic animations of nuclear bombs being dropped from planes such as the B2 Spirit or Tupolev, depending on the country of origin, as well as the iconic mushroom cloud effects. Location selection can be done by dragging the map or searching for a specific location by name.

About

Radioactive

Features
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Radioactive is an immersive nuclear-warfare sandbox — not another static blast-radius calculator. Every strike is a living event you launch, fly, and watch play out on a real satellite map of Earth. REAL WEAPONS, REAL DELIVERY Choose from a catalog of real-world weapons with their accurate yields — from Little Boy to the 50-megaton Tsar Bomba — and deliver them the way they were actually fielded: silo-launched ICBMs, submarine-launched ballistic missiles, ship-launched cruise missiles, or gravity bombs dropped from era-correct strategic bombers that fly the full sortie: ingress, release, loop-around, and return to base. REALISTIC FLIGHT, YOUR CLOCK Flights take realistic travel times — an intercontinental shot really takes half an hour. A universal simulation clock (Day 1, 11:36 AM…) runs the whole world, and you control it: watch in real time or fast-forward at up to 100×. Queue up an entire salvo and release it one strike at a time, or all at once. CASUALTIES THAT UNFOLD, NOT A PRELOADED NUMBER Built on a full offline population grid of the entire planet (8+ billion people), casualty tolls play out over simulated days, not as an instant statistic: the immediate blast, delayed trauma, firestorms, and radiation each take their toll on their own realistic timelines. The injured can succumb. The dead stay dead — strike the same city twice and the second blast finds only survivors. WEATHER-DRIVEN FALLOUT Groundbursts loft fallout that rides the wind — and the wind changes day to day. A plume that drifts north today can fan east tomorrow, painting realistic multi-day contamination footprints across the land. Airbursts maximize blast but leave little fallout, just like the real physics. Contaminated ground stays contaminated. INSPECT THE AFTERMATH Tap any city for a live census: pre-war population, killed, injured, the share of land rendered uninhabitable, and who's still alive. Track national tolls as percentages of each country's real population. Drill into every detonation for its full breakdown — death waves, injury types, and ongoing effects like firestorms and radiation exposure. BUILT NATIVE Pure SwiftUI and MapKit on a real 3D satellite globe. No accounts, no ads, no data collection — everything runs on your device, and your session persists exactly where you left it. All effects are approximations derived from public, declassified scaling-law physics (Glasstone & Dolan, 1977) and public population data. Radioactive is a simulation for entertainment and education — not a targeting or civil-defense tool.

Screenshots

Nuke Simulator 20244 screens
Radioactive4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Radioactive at none against Nuke Simulator 2024's 7. Radioactive also leads on ads (none vs shown). Nuke Simulator 2024's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). On price and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Nuke Simulator 2024 sells 7 one-off in-app purchases. Radioactive asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Nuke Simulator 2024 versus Radioactive: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNuke Simulator 2024Radioactive
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.2 (17 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews62.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings17 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 days—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size189 MB16 MB
Age rating17+12+
DeveloperRahman MammadovREGGIE LEE SLABA

In-app purchases

7 purchases

Nuke Simulator 2024

One-time7
  • Get 3 Tries$0.99
  • Get 5 tries$1.99
  • Remove Ads$2.99
Show 4 more
  • Get 10 tries$2.99
  • Get 20 Tries$3.99
  • Get 50 tries$5.99
  • Make Pro$9.99
None

Radioactive

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Nuke Simulator 2024 free?
Nuke Simulator 2024 is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Radioactive free?
Radioactive is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Nuke Simulator 2024 or Radioactive have ads?
Nuke Simulator 2024 shows ads; Radioactive does not.

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