Comparison

Radioactive vs Wildfire Air Operation

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

Head to head
About

Radioactive

Experience a realistic nuclear war simulation where you launch and observe the unfolding consequences of strikes on a global satellite map. Witness the impact of real weapons, realistic flight times, and dynamic casualty counts over simulated days, influenced by weather-driven fallout.

Highlights
  • Realistic nuclear warfare simulation
  • Real-world weapons with accurate yields
  • Simulated flight times and delivery methods
  • Dynamic casualty unfolding over days
  • Weather-driven fallout simulation
  • Detailed aftermath inspection
  • Offline operation
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.

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Wildfire Air Operation

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Take command of a global aerial firefighting operation — with real, live wildfire data from NASA's satellites layered right onto the map. Wildfire Air Operation puts you in charge of a country's fleet of scoopers, air tankers, and helicopters. Fires break out and spread using a full simulation — wind, temperature, and humidity all affect how fast they grow — so no two operations play out the same way. Alongside that, the map also shows real, continuously-updated wildfire detections from NASA's own satellites, marked separately so you always know which fires are actually burning in the real world right now. REAL AIRCRAFT, REAL SPECS Buy and operate 12 authentic firefighting aircraft, each modeled on the real thing: • Canadair CL-415 "Super Scooper" • Beriev Be-200 • Air Tractor AT-802 Fire Boss • DC-10 Air Tanker • Boeing 747 Global SuperTanker • C-130 Hercules (MAFFS) • Ilyushin Il-76 (VAP-2) • Sikorsky S-64 Air Crane • Kamov Ka-32 • Bell 214B • Boeing CH-47 Chinook • Mil Mi-8 Every aircraft in your fleet gets its own tail number, fuel load, cargo capacity, and range — scoopers need open water to refill, tankers need to return to base, and helicopters can work tighter spaces. MANAGE A REAL FIREFIGHTING ECONOMY Start with a budget, buy aircraft, station them at real airports, and keep them flying. Every purchase, dispatch, and relocation costs money — balance an aggressive early response against running out of budget when the big fires hit. 12 COUNTRIES TO COMMAND Choose from Turkey, the USA, France, Greece, Italy, Spain, Australia, Russia, Brazil, Canada, South Africa, or Indonesia — each with its own airports, fire season, and terrain. Manage your own country's fleet, and answer international aid calls when a neighboring country's fires overwhelm their resources. BUILT ON REAL DATA Real wildfire detections come from NASA's FIRMS (Fire Information for Resource Management System) satellite feed — the same data wildfire agencies around the world use — overlaid on top of the game's own fire simulation. Terrain and water sources are drawn from real map data, so scoop runs and flight paths follow the actual geography. PROGRESSION & ACHIEVEMENTS Unlock milestones as you extinguish fires, drop water and retardant, and help other countries — from your first ten fires all the way to becoming a legendary extinguisher. PRIVACY-RESPECTING BY DESIGN No account, no sign-up, no personal data collected. Your progress is saved only on your device. Ads (where shown) are non-personalized. Whether you're a wildfire management enthusiast, an aviation fan, or just looking for a deep strategy sim grounded in the real world, Wildfire Air Operation gives you the tools — and the real data — to fight fire from the sky.

Screenshots

Radioactive4 screens
Wildfire Air Operation4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Radioactive at none against Wildfire Air Operation's 2. Radioactive also leads on ads (none vs shown). Wildfire Air Operation's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 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. Wildfire Air Operation sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Radioactive asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Radioactive versus Wildfire Air Operation: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRadioactiveWildfire Air Operation
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (8 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings8 — better—
Update frequency—Every 3 weeks
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size16 MB25 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperREGGIE LEE SLABAKSAR Digital OU

In-app purchases

None

Radioactive

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Wildfire Air Operation

One-time2
  • Unlock 60x Speed$0.99
  • Remove Ads$2.99

Questions

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

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