When comparing Freedoom vs Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup, the Slant community recommends Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup for most people. In the question“What are the best open-source games?” Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup is ranked 9th while Freedoom is ranked 38th. The most important reason people chose Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup is:
There are a few different classes available at character creation, each one has it's own abilities that are different from the others. Creating one is quite simple, which makes for a fast way to get into the game and start playing.
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Pros
Pro The Doom feeling without the proprietary data files
Pro Thousands of available mods
Pro Easy mod creation
Making new levels and even gameplay mods is fairly easy and requires no programming knowledge.
Pro Easily moddable
You can apply mods others have made in a straightforward fashion. Find a mod you like (either from a quick google search or checking moddb for some) and the individual mod pages have a "tutorials" tab that you can use to figure out how to install it. It differs from mod to mod, but in most cases, it's fairly simple.
Pro Well documented modding possiblities
There are numerous tutorials providing detailed help with the modding and wikis providing extensive information on all aspects of the game
Pro Active community
Pro Simple character creation with different classes
There are a few different classes available at character creation, each one has it's own abilities that are different from the others. Creating one is quite simple, which makes for a fast way to get into the game and start playing.
Pro Gold Standard for roguelikes
The controls and replayability have been refined over the years. Whether the player chooses to play with Tiles (graphics) or console (ASCII) the game works well even when choosing online or offline play. Either way there is just enough interface to play the game.
Cons
Con Have to fiddle with controls
Being that the game uses an emulated keyboard on screen it works best on tablet, though is not really the preferred method (but is the only one) since it takes up screen space.