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Home of Wargamers 2026 is almost here. Our yearly live showcase, streamed on Twitch and YouTube, returns on September 30th with fresh announcements, updates and a look behind the scenes at what's coming from Matrix Games. This edition brings together longtime fan favorites and br
Hello Nuclear War Simulator fans. Episode#5 of our video series is now out. This time, we explore the systems designed to detect and stop ballistic missile threats before impact. From early-warning satellites and radar detection to missile interception during reentry, we break do
Build 418 New features and changes: the number of injured people is calculated total casualties (fatalities + injuries + fatal cancers) are calculated expanded the display of results of the simulation the area and volume of the destroyed building are calculated and displayed Bug
Hi everyone, Update v1.00.0415 has been released. NOTE: Initially this patch released with incomplete patch notes, below is now the complete list Bug fixes and minor improvements: fixed: cancer rate was hard-coded. Now it will be used from the settings panel., fixed: reading the
The Meyer update is out now for Nuclear War Simulator. Last week we revealed the major features in Dev Log #6 The Meyer Update. With this major update a Campaign mode has been added. These missions introduce new mechanics that increase in complexity – making them a great tutorial
Dev Diary: The Meyer Update The upcoming Meyer update represents a significant milestone for the Nuclear War Simulator, introducing a range of enhancements designed to deepen its educational impact while delivering a more refined and intuitive user experience. This update introdu
Nuclear War Simulator has a Beta live for our next update. The Meyer update will see a Campaign mode with missions and objectives added to the game, along with a scenario creation wizard, improvements to the radiation model, and bug fixes. Footage from HoW 2024 showing off a shor
We are proud to announce our new Home of Wargamers live event, which will take place on September 26th at 5 pm UK time . Join us on our Twitch channel to know more about our biggest franchises. You can set a reminder here . We will talk about a lot of important updates for some o
Hello Nuclear War Simulator fans. Episode 4/6 of our video series is out now. This episode explores the damage nuclear weapons do indirectly. While the explosion, blast, and fireball have the capacity to destroy cities, fallout can destroy whole ecosystems. When an atomic weapon
Nuclear War Simulator's fallout model has been used in a scientific study commissioned by Princeton University. The Missiles on Our Land Project has utilized the NWS fallout model to track the different ways seasonal winds could effect the spread of radioactive ash and dust. This
Our third episode of the Nuclear War Simulator video series is now out. This time we cover the actual effects of nuclear weapons as they detonate. From the shock-wave to the thermal radiation, we go over the apocalyptic implications of a detonation in a major urban center.
We are proud to announce our new Home of Wargamers live event, which will take place on September 12th at 5 pm UK time. Join us on our Twitch channel to know more about our biggest franchises. You can set a reminder here . We will talk about a lot of important updates for some of
A new update is available for Nuclear War Simulator. Along with bugfixes, new features include a data layer for average building heights, which will improve the accuracy of modeling damage to an urban environment. Build 399 New features and changes: -Visualization of single physi
Hi everyone, a new update has just been released. Many many fixes and improvements! Build 394 New features and changes: - new buttons with text in the main UI overlay - added a name field to units - default blueprints and blueprints from mods are now protected from editing, delet
Hi everyone, a new update has just been released. Build 391 New features: - blueprints of any country can be used by any other country in the placement panel, surface objects. This will make it much easier to give nuclear weapons to countries that don't have any nuclear weapons y
Today we are going to release a new update Here is the changelog: New features: - attack planer: in the counter-force targeting tool, when adding selected units, all added units will be selected by default, making the targeting easier Bug fixes: - alliances are now updated every
Hi everyone, the first update since the release is live! This update will solve a number of issues, especially for everyone who has problems calculating fatalities. Build 389 New features: - added an option to define a custom grid span for HYSPLIT - added an option to decouple ef
t first glance, Nuclear War Simulator , which launched today on Steam, bears a real resemblance to DEFCON, the old (and excellent ) Wargames-inspired strategy sim about turning the planet into a roasted chestnut. In reality, it's something quite different, and not really a game a
Nuclear War Simulator Out Now 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
Nuclear War Simulator - Dev Log #5 Individual humans Simulating the effects of nuclear weapons on individual humans The nuclear war simulator can be used to simulate the effects of nuclear weapons not only on the population density but also on individual humans. You can place ind