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If you enjoy a heavy, strategic eurogame with an alternate history theme that makes you think, Nucleum is a perfect fit!
- Deep eurogame mechanics
- Innovative and engaging theme
- Interesting asymmetric powers
- Challenging route building
- Impactful decisions every turn
- Steep learning curve
- Considerable play time
- Requires strategic planning
About the game
What you do in a play session
Expansions
Published additional content
Nucleum: Acrylic Nucleums Promo
Nucleum: Australia
Nucleum: Court of Progress
Nucleum: Dice Tower Promo 2025
Nucleum: Energy Research Institute
Nucleum: Gibraltar
Nucleum: Neons Promo
Nucleum: New Contracts Promo
Nucleum: New Military Technologies Promo
Nucleum: Nucleum Half Tiles Promo
Nucleum: Patrons Set
Nucleum: Turbine Development Tiles Promo
Gallery
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Rules videos
Learn by watching before you open the box
In English
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Nucleum - Tutorial & Playthrough
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Nucleum - Learn While Playing
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Game in a Nutshell - Nucleum (How to Play)
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How to play Nucleum
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Nucleum Rules Challenge
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Nucleum Play Through | The Brothers Murph
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Nucleum: Court of Progress
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Nucleum Australia - Tutorial & Playthrough
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Nucleum Gibraltar: Tutorial & Playthrough
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Nucleum: Energy Research Institute - Tutorial & Playthrough
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All the Games with Steph: Nucleum - The Rules
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Nucleum - Strategy Overview
Rules manual
Official PDF file
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Soundtrack
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