You searched "nuclear epoch wiki" and the internet handed you other games — a Fandom page for something called Epoch, a forum for an Arma mod, machine-generated pages promising item IDs that don't exist. This site exists to fix that. Welcome to the actual wiki: twenty-plus deep-dive guides, every mechanic traced to a source, and not a single fabricated console command in sight.
What Is Nuclear Epoch?
Nuclear Epoch is an open-world post-apocalyptic survival game with an extraction shooter's heart, developed and published by Cat Play Studio and released on Steam on June 25, 2026. Steam tags it Extraction Shooter, Looter Shooter, and Open World with a Fantasy twist — an honest menu of what's inside. You can play solo or co-op with friends (invitation-based; there's no server browser).
The gameplay loop is the draw: raid procedurally generated instances, fight your way to the loot, and extract alive — die, and everything you were carrying stays on your corpse. Back at your shelter, the game flips genres: hand-forge weapons that grow with use (how forging works), raise dragons, recruit NPC residents, and turn rare drops into real Steam inventory items through the game's player economy. Reviews sit at Mostly Positive across 451 ratings — Very Positive in the recent window (Steam store page) — with praise for the gunplay and the fast update cadence, and honest complaints about performance hiccups and grind. Both sides run through this wiki like a watermark.
What This Nuclear Epoch Wiki Covers
Think of this wiki as your home base in the wasteland: seven workstations, each stocked for a different kind of run.
Basics — first-hour survival. The beginner route walks your opening day, survival and extraction explains the death rules, and tips and tricks collects what the community learned the hard way.
Dragons — the fan favorite. Four confirmed elements (dragon list), a full breeding pipeline from breed level to incubator, what to feed them, and a tier list with transparent reasoning instead of vibes.
Combat — the weapons database, the RNG-driven crafting system, and community-tested best weapons rankings.
Economy — the game's most unique trick: rare items become real Steam inventory. The computing center guide maps idle production, Steam items carries a 38-item market price snapshot, and warehouse covers storage upgrades.
World — the map's three-layer structure, all five themed instances and their bosses, base building with real automation numbers, and the community's best base locations.
Materials — a materials database with hold-or-sell calls, and the elements and alloys system that quietly powers weapon crafting.
Reference — the honest corner: cheats and console commands (spoiler: there's no console — proven, not assumed), mods with the official ModKit timeline, and every update and patch since launch, curated version by version.
Where to Start
Three pages, in order: Getting Started for your first day and first base, Survival & Extraction so the death rules never surprise you, then Tips & Tricks for the shortcuts. Dragon-curious? Skip straight to breeding — the deepest system in the game.
Nuclear Epoch Wiki Quick Answers
Is there an official Nuclear Epoch wiki?Not that we've found — the developers' official channels are their Steam page, YouTube, and Discord, leaving the wiki space to the community. This site fills it, with sources on every page.
What engine does Nuclear Epoch run on?Unreal Engine 5.7.4 — confirmed by the official ModKit announcement, not rumor. The details sit in our mods guide.
Where's the official Discord?Linked from the game's Steam store page, alongside the developers' YouTube channel. Steam is the hub for everything official.
Does the game have cheat codes?No console, no gift codes, no admin commands — verified three separate ways. What does exist (official Workshop mods, third-party trainers) and the honest risks live on our cheats page.