- The Nuclear Gungeon bundle has arrived! - 8 June 2026
For centuries philosophers have asked the big question: Nuclear Throne or Enter the Gungeon? Today, we finally have a definitive answer: BOTH.Announcing the Nuclear Gungeon bundle, adding an additional 15% off for whoever wants to complete their collection of these two classics!On top of that, Nuclear Throne is currently a rare 25% off for Steam Bullet Fest, and Enter the Gungeon a whopping 80%, so tell your friends and get gunning!Cheers,JW
- Classic roguelike top-down shooter Nuclear Throne major update 100 out now - 9 December 2025
A lovely blast from the past of 2015, Nuclear Throne from the revived Vlambeer has update #100 out now with some major additions and improvements. Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/classic-roguelike-top-down-shooter-nuclear-throne-major-update-100-out-now/
- Update #100 - 10 year anniversary - December 5th, 2025 - 5 December 2025
Nuclear Throne launched 10 years ago, can you believe it?And today is the day we bring you Update 100!The gang got back together, with Jan Willem Nijman, Paul Veer, Jukio Kallio, Joonas Turner, and Justin Chan, as well as YellowAfterlife (and a secret little feature for Doseone) to bring you what might just be the biggest and baddest update in Nuclear Throne History! At least it's the one that took the longest!Now here's what you've been waiting for, the changelog:A thirteenth character: Cuz is not afraid to show his emotions, with a Cry ability that tears through enemies and projectiles alike. Oh, and he gets to carry 3 (three) weapons.Custom mode, allowing you to modify Nuclear Throne to your liking, create unique runs and challenges, and to get to know the game better than ever before.New unlockable C-skins for every character (and new achievements for these).Localization for 15 lang…
- Nuclear Throne update 100 launch date & a Y.V. plushie! - 1 September 2025
Today is Vlambeer’s 15th birthday, how about we celebrate with some announcements? 🎉Nuclear Throne update 100Here’s the big one, Nuclear Throne Update 100 is launching for free on Steam on December 5th, bringing you:C-skins for all 13 characters, all with their own looks and unlock challenges. Custom difficulty mode, allowing you to greatly customize your play experience.Localization, 60+ fps support, and many more quality of life features.This launch date also happens to be Nuclear Throne’s 10th birthday, what a coincidence!I really want to thank the team for this one, it’s been an absolute joy working (and brainstorming) with Paul, Justin, Jukio and Joonas again, as well as YellowAfterLife, who started out in the Nuclear Throne mod community but has been doing the majority of development work and upkeep on the game since launch.Nuclear Throne Dev StreamOn December 6th (19:00 CET) we'…
- Get Nuclear Throne as part of the Iconic Roguelites Bundle! - 24 July 2025
Hey there, hope you’ve all been enjoying the buttery smooth 120fps beta we posted about last month!If you haven't yet, good news: you can now complete your collection of Spelunky, Isaac, FTL, Crypt of the NecroDancer, and Nuclear Throne with a permanent 15% discount in the Iconic Roguelites Bundle! Every single one of the other games is an absolute classic, and if you've enjoyed Nuclear Throne you'll have a great time with them too.The 15% discount is applied on top of any running discount for the included games, and you only have to pay for the games you don't own yet!Get the Iconic Roguelites bundle right here. (rumor has it that buying it today will result in good RNG)All the best,JW
- 10 years after it launched, one of the best roguelikes of all time gets a surprise update on Steam with quality of life improvements and a new controls menu - 25 June 2025
It was 2015—10 years ago—that we called Nuclear Throne "a crowning achievement for Vlambeer, and one of the finest action-roguelikes ever made" in our 90% review . Seven years later, in 2022, we said it was still the best roguelike around . And now, in 2025, eight years after its last update, Nuclear Throne has suddenly sprung back to life... Read more.
- New Nuclear Throne beta build available now! - 25 June 2025
Hey all, long time no see!Just wanted to let everybody know that there's a newly updated beta build for Nuclear Throne with many quality of life improvements like 60/120fps support, different aspect ratios, and a new controls menu! Oh, and a new Melting loading screen tip. 😎To access the Steam Beta:Right Click on Nuclear Throne in your Steam Library.Click "Properties..."Click "Betas"Select "openbeta_win64"Enjoy your silky smooth gaming!To access the FPS settings: Go to SETTINGS > GAME > MECHANICSThe plan is to eventually bring these improvements and more to the main game, so please give it a try and share your thoughts!For the full changelog head here, big thanks to YellowAfterLife for his work on this update!All the best,-JW
- Why Nuclear Throne is still the best roguelike around - 15 August 2022
In an instant, it all comes back. The immediate sense of danger. The strategy, the weapons, remembering to grab a grenade launcher for the 2-1 bonus round and remembering to avoid opening the gates in 3-2 and 5-2 to keep them safe for the eventual loop. I make it to the Throne at record pace, busting the generators to break into the secret second phase... and then I beef it. Melted. A promising run killed in an instant, doomed by one slip up... Read more.
- Luftrausers studio Vlambeer closes doors on 10th birthday - 2 September 2020
Indie studio Vlambeer hit an important milestone yesterday, marking 10 years since it was established in 2010 by founders Rami Ismail and Jan Willem Nijman. Yet the studio decided to mark the occasion in a somewhat unusual way, as the developer revealed it's shutting up shop. As announced via Twitter, the studio felt it had "a beautiful run, made incredible games, and worked with amazing people", but decided it was "time for new things". "It's not a sad day for us, but the happy conclusion to a whirlwind decade filled with screenshake," Vlambeer stated. "It feels like we've achieved what we set out to do - as a studio, as a voice, and as individuals, and we are extremely grateful for these past years." Read more
- Nuclear Throne and Ruiner are this week's free Epic Store games - 8 November 2019
If you're looking to expand that insurmountable gaming backlog still further, then perhaps you might like to glance in the direction of the Epic Games Store, where once again a bony finger beckons through the crack in the curtain with the promise of more free games. And this week your freebie options are Ruiner and Nuclear Throne. Nuclear Throne, of course, is developer Vlambeer's acclaimed rogue-like top-down shooter, in which bullets, and a procession of gun-toting post-apocalyptic mutants, reign supreme. Eurogamer's Christian Donlan called it, "Vlambeer's most luxurious game" when he took it for a spin back in 2014, describing it as "perhaps the team's most demanding and multi-layered, too, throwing a tactical, almost strategic element into the mix behind all that shooting." Read more
- Nuclear Throne fan expansion adds new areas and parrots - 4 November 2019
Post-apocaltypic roguelike Nuclear Throne was a blast. Knife-edge dodge rolls, chunky shotguns, playable telekinetic eyeball monsters. It had it all – except clearly a team of modders disagreed. Their homebrewed “Territorial Expansion” came out last week, with enough doo dahs and polish to pass as an official update. There are new areas, enemies, bosses, weapons and characters. Also, pet parrots. Nothing like a pet parrot to lure me back to armageddon. (more…)
- Vlambeer return to their roots with a yet-unnamed arcade puzzle shooter - 3 September 2018
After a string of larger games (including the excellent roguelike shooter Nuclear Throne ), Vlambeer are getting back to their roots. At PAX West last weekend, the tiny studio with the big screen-shake effects had an interesting prototype on show – an arcade arena shooter with simple controls and an unusual puzzle-like spin. Vlambeer are getting right back to the score-chasing roots of videogames here, minus watching all your 20p coins mysteriously vanishing. A spaceship zaps aliens in a single-screen arena, but the enemies you shoot determine where and when the next wave spawns. IGN caught some of the game (as well as developer Rami Ismail to explain it) at the show, and you can see it in action below. (more…)
- Rami Ismail on what indies & AAA can teach each other - 2 July 2018
Vlambeer’s Rami Ismail ( Nuclear Throne , Ridiculous Fishing ) is one of the nicest people in the industry. When he’s not hammering away at the code-forge, he’s travelling the world, meeting new people and advocating diversity in games. Recently, he swung by Barcelona to moderate talks at industry conference Gamelab . While he was there, he found the time to give a few interviews, including a particularly interesting (and lengthy) one to Dean Takahashi of VentureBeat’s games division , wherein he detailed the problems faced by both sides of the industry today. (more…)
- Have You Played Nuclear Throne? - 10 November 2017
Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time. Nuclear Throne is a bullet hell, twin-stick shooter roguelike set in an apocalyptic wasteland. Like, seriously apocalyptic – playable characters include a telekinetic sack of eyeballs, a mutated plant that s 90% mouth, and a blob of radioactive gloop. (more…)
- Nuclear Throne's final update is now live - 7 November 2017
Vlambeer's Nuclear Throne , a "lightning-fast top-down roguelike shooter in which squidgy mutants vie for possession of the eponymous throne," came out a couple of years ago to widespread acclaim. We scored it 90/100 in our review , and it enjoys an "overwhelmingly positive" user review aggregate on Steam. It also wore out the developers pretty thoroughly.  "Nuclear Throne took a lot out of us, and when we finally released the current U98 over a year and a half ago, we were all entirely exhausted," Vlambeer co-founder Rami Ismail said last week . "Since then, we've slowly been finding our footing again, and now that we're feeling creative again, we decided to return to form with an long-long-long-awaited final major update to Nuclear Throne for PC, Mac, and Linux."  That would be Update 99, which dropped yesterday, developed alongside Nuclear Throne Together mod…
- Nuclear Throne gets one last big update - 7 November 2017
The rad roguelikelike shoot ’em up Nuclear Throne has launched what developers Vlambeer are calling its “final major update”. This comes almost two years after Nuclear Throne launched out of early access. Update 99 brings balance tweaks and buckets of bug fixes, improves the game’s performance, and should make modding easier. It doesn’t add gobs of new content but is intended to tidy up odds and ends to leave Nuclear Throne in a fit state for posterity. Well, mostly – it does seem to have a nasty little bug wiping progress for some players. Maybe wait a bit, just to be safe. (more…)
- Update #99 - Update 99 - November 6th, 2017 - 6 November 2017
http://nuclearthrone.com/press/nuclearthone_final.png It's update 99. Features Area/weapon/mutation seeding is now far more consistent. There's now an option for borderless fullscreen on Windows (Alt+Shift+Enter / in options). There's now a confirmation dialog when exiting/restarting a run; R confirms in it. Safe spawns now work consistently. Added a setting for native cursors - when supported, this gets rid of mouse lag once and for all. Added a setting for mouselock (when available) - for windowed or multi-screen setups. Both players can now play the same character in coop without making use of bugs. Added localization support (see lang-example.ini / copy to lang.ini for translating) Almost too many bugfixes. Balancing Weapons returned by Determination no longer have cooldown of last seen weapon in that slot. Trying to pause mid-generation now pauses as soon as loading finishes. Game…
- Update #99 - Update 99 - November 6th, 2017 - 6 November 2017
http://nuclearthrone.com/press/nuclearthone_final.png It's update 99. Features Area/weapon/mutation seeding is now far more consistent. There's now an option for borderless fullscreen on Windows (Alt+Shift+Enter / in options). There's now a confirmation dialog when exiting/restarting a run; R confirms in it. Safe spawns now work consistently. Added a setting for native cursors - when supported, this gets rid of mouse lag once and for all. Added a setting for mouselock (when available) - for windowed or multi-screen setups. Both players can now play the same character in coop without making use of bugs. Added localization support (see lang-example.ini / copy to lang.ini for translating) Almost too many bugfixes. Balancing Weapons returned by Determination no longer have cooldown of last seen weapon in that slot. Trying to pause mid-generation now pauses as soon as loading finishes. Game…
- November 6th: AMA + Update 99 Release! - 1 November 2017
http://nuclearthrone.com/press/the-old-chair_sm.png Hi there! It's been a long time, and as you all probably noticed, Vlambeer has been in somewhat of a hybernation state. Nuclear Throne took a lot out of us, and when we finally released the current U98 over a year and a half ago, we were all entirely exhausted. Since then, we've slowly been finding our footing again, and now that we're feeling creative again, we decided to return to form with an long-long-long-awaited final major update to Nuclear Throne for PC, Mac, and Linux. We've hired YellowAfterlife (the creator of the Nuclear Throne Together mod) and worked closely with community members and feedback to create an update 99 that is worthy of the wait. While we want to stress that you shouldn't expect new content for this update, it is nevertheless significant: the game performs significantly better, is easier to mod, and a lot of…
- November 6th: AMA + Update 99 Release! - 1 November 2017
http://nuclearthrone.com/press/the-old-chair_sm.png Hi there! It's been a long time, and as you all probably noticed, Vlambeer has been in somewhat of a hybernation state. Nuclear Throne took a lot out of us, and when we finally released the current U98 over a year and a half ago, we were all entirely exhausted. Since then, we've slowly been finding our footing again, and now that we're feeling creative again, we decided to return to form with an long-long-long-awaited final major update to Nuclear Throne for PC, Mac, and Linux. We've hired YellowAfterlife (the creator of the Nuclear Throne Together mod) and worked closely with community members and feedback to create an update 99 that is worthy of the wait. While we want to stress that you shouldn't expect new content for this update, it is nevertheless significant: the game performs significantly better, is easier to mod, and a lot of…
