Nuclear Union
A cancelled RPG set in a post-nuclear Soviet alternate reality.
Nuclear Union, whose Russian title translates to "New Union," was a post-apocalyptic role-playing game that never made it to release. The Ukrainian developer Best Way created it, with the Russian publisher 1C Company initially on board to fund and publish it for Windows in 2014. But 1C withdrew at the close of 2013, citing Ukraine's political turmoil, which killed the project. Its story kicked off during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, then jumped to a present-day Soviet Union reshaped by nuclear war. The game's look blended dark retrofuturism with ruined landscapes and vintage prototypes alongside modern arms, evoking Ukrainian titles like S.T.A.L.K.E.R. and Metro 2033.
Quick Facts
- Developer
- Best Way
- Publisher
- 1C Company
- Released
- Cancelled
- Genre
- Role-playing
- Platforms
- Microsoft Windows
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Plot
Nuclear Union was intended as a large-scale role-playing video game, taking place in a post-apocalyptic alternative reality in which the world has survived a nuclear war that broke out after the Cuban Missile Crisis. Fifty years after the war, the fragments of the Soviet Union that were hastily brought underground have gradually become a real state with its own capital, a city called Pobedograd. The game's main protagonist is a former pilot of the Soviet military aviation, who is sent from the underground city of 'Pobedograd' in the subsoil of Moscow to the radioactive external surface, for various missions on behalf of the underground government of Pobedograd, including the recovery of advanced Soviet pre-nuclear war technologies and investigating a set of strange and mysterious phenomena that are happening on the outer surface. The protagonist is depicted as carrying the Korobov TKB-408 bullpup rifle, a Soviet prototype from 1946. According to in-game lore, the Korobov was revived when counter-revolutionary gangs found the documentation and the weapon began appearing in the regions of Ryazan and Tambov; the deficiencies of the weapon were corrected with it being referred to as 'Object 93' (Ob'yekt 93) in reference to the year its schematics were discovered.
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