PaX [comrade/them, they/them]

Very tired nerd who doesn’t know how to speak correctly

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  • @rtstragedy@hexbear.net RE: Nuclear reactor simulator game

    Sorry for late reply, I’m always doing that to people and I hate it :/

    Yess, there are a few, precious, rare nuclear reactor sim games, which vary in quality and complexity quite a bit. The one I was referring to is “Chernobyl: The Legacy Continues”, which has a very weird history for a game lol. It was made as an actual plant operator training simulator program but was turned into a game for total fuckin nerds lol. I don’t wanna put anyone off of trying it but it’s probably the most complicated to learn and master out of the reactor sim games I know of, has a learning curve like a mountain and UI like you would imagine for a 90s industrial training program but it is really fun if you can get into it and is like no other game I know of lol. It’s also an ancient game for 16-bit Windows but someone has made a modern port of it here: https://github.com/gdzx/chernobyl-simulator (that port also fixes some bugs and lets you pause and turn off the pop-up videos of the plant supervisor telling you off for messing up lmao)

    If you’re on Unix you might be able to run that with Wine without the included NTVDM compatibility layer (also ported to modern Windows), I’m not sure. Would highly highly recommend checking out this guy’s videos about the game to learn how to play cuz the in-game tutorial does not prepare you lol, also the videos are just fun to watch (he even has a Chernobyl accident recreation video): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtMqEBTig8fJzthGYTWWWuMYIB1z3nhJX (scroll down to RBMK-1000 simulator tutorials)

    Probably my other favorite reactor sim game is called “Nucleares”, it’s much much more modern and simulates the operation of the whole plant in 3D. It’s simplified but still really fun and much more easy to get into. I think it’s still in early access and has some frustrating qualities but it’s getting better and better. Also, tbh, that game kept my shattered attention span for much longer than Chernobyl lol

    There are a few other reactor sim games floating around, but not enough imo :/ . I tried another called something like “BWR Reactor Simulator” but it kinda just felt like a tech demo or something for a real simulator program, kinda boring, too simple.

    Hope you find interesting, lemme know if you need help getting anything to run, simulated plant equipment or otherwise lol. That modern port of Chernobyl ran pretty well on my system but it’s ancient, couldn’t get the UI to scale so it’s kinda harsh on the eyes on modern resolution screens too :(

    Simgenics needs to turn another one of their training programs into games for us reactor nerds smh