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Nuclear Blaze

Deepnight Games · 2021-10-18

SteamPlayStation StoreAmazonMicrosoft Store

ActionAdventureIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: May 30, 2024 (PlayStation 5), Oct 18, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Apr 28, 2023 (PlayStation 4), Apr 28, 2023 (Nintendo Switch), Apr 28, 2023 (Xbox One)

A unique 2D firefighting platformer from the creator of Dead Cells, featuring devastating backdrafts, exploding walls, and expected cat rescues. Battle your way through a mysterious government facility, striving to keep the blaze under control.

96%
positive of 956 reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
72/100
critic score (3 outlets, IGDB)
4.12★
PlayStation Store rating (634 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Unsupported
$9.99
steam price (US)
Nuclear Blaze is action-adventure game developed and published by Deepnight Games. It was released for Windows through Steam on October 18, 2021, and was launched for PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch on April 28, 2023. In the game, players take control of a firefighter investigating a military facility. The firefighter must use their hose to put out the fires located inside, while searching for survivors and leaning about the purpose of the base. The game received mixed reviews on release.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 77 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~10/week).
  • · Review velocity up 43% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 16% of 26,295 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 19k–43k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 956 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Gamesplanet$1.33-87%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$1.47-85%
GamersGate$1.50-85%
Microsoft Store$9.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.99 at IndieGala Store (2025-09-16) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 126 of 169 observed days · $0.34 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
13613620212026Week of 2021-10-01: 136 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 66 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-10-01: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$9.99$0.992021-10-182026-10-112021-10-18 — best price $8.992021-12-28 — best price $8.392022-05-02 — best price $9.992022-07-09 — best price $7.862022-08-31 — best price $9.992022-12-23 — best price $6.992023-02-14 — best price $6.492023-05-03 — best price $7.862023-07-07 — best price $6.992023-08-21 — best price $4.872023-10-16 — best price $4.872023-11-29 — best price $9.992024-01-04 — best price $9.992024-02-21 — best price $9.992024-04-03 — best price $9.992024-06-13 — best price $9.992024-08-01 — best price $9.992024-09-24 — best price $9.992024-11-18 — best price $3.002025-01-27 — best price $2.622025-04-04 — best price $2.252025-06-03 — best price $1.492025-08-04 — best price $2.092025-09-25 — best price $9.992025-11-14 — best price $2.002025-12-23 — best price $9.992026-02-09 — best price $1.692026-03-24 — best price $7.862026-05-07 — best price $1.492026-07-06 — best price $1.492026-08-10 — best price $1.332026-09-01 — best price $9.992026-09-23 — best price $0.992026-10-11 — best price $1.33
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1612026-07-13 — 4 pageviews2026-07-16 — 4 pageviews2026-07-19 — 5 pageviews2026-07-22 — 3 pageviews2026-07-25 — 4 pageviews2026-07-28 — 4 pageviews2026-07-31 — 5 pageviews2026-08-03 — 4 pageviews2026-08-06 — 7 pageviews2026-08-09 — 6 pageviews2026-08-12 — 5 pageviews2026-08-15 — 1 pageviews2026-08-18 — 4 pageviews2026-08-21 — 6 pageviews2026-08-24 — 5 pageviews2026-08-27 — 5 pageviews2026-08-30 — 4 pageviews2026-09-02 — 2 pageviews2026-09-05 — 11 pageviews2026-09-08 — 6 pageviews2026-09-11 — 3 pageviews2026-09-14 — 3 pageviews2026-09-17 — 2 pageviews2026-09-20 — 2 pageviews2026-09-23 — 4 pageviews2026-09-26 — 8 pageviews2026-09-29 — 5 pageviews2026-10-02 — 10 pageviews2026-10-05 — 10 pageviews2026-10-08 — 3 pageviews2026-10-10 — 5 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

20
achievements tracked
93.1%
earned "You're not welcomed in here..."
56.7%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsLinuxFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

11 supported languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Turkish, Spanish - Latin America, Basque

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2021-11-24 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,25420%20
Xbox One (Xbox)38028%20
PS5 (PlayStation)29248%21
PS4 (PlayStation)19260%21
Switch (Nintendo)530%0
PS4 (PlayStation)4963%21
Switch (Nintendo)30%0

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

2DShortActionCasualMysteryColorfulPlatformerAtmosphericExplorationSingleplayer

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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