When comparing SuperTux vs FlightGear, the Slant community recommends FlightGear for most people. In the question“What are the best open-source games?” FlightGear is ranked 4th while SuperTux is ranked 30th. The most important reason people chose FlightGear is:
FlightGear has scenery that contains environments to fly in from the whole globe.
Specs
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Pros
Pro The game is constantly growing
New levels, new art, new enemies... The game is improving all the time.
Pro Super Mario Bros alike
Reminds of old Super Mario Bros games back in the days.
Pro The classic native Linux game
This is the classic FOSS Linux game that's been here forever.
It's the game that embodies the spirit of Linux.
Pro There are contributed levels that are very good
In addition to the main world, there are contributed levels like the Forest World which is much more interesitng than the main world and has advantages of choosing different paths.
Pro There is a boss in the game
Pro Worldwide scenery
FlightGear has scenery that contains environments to fly in from the whole globe.
Pro Free and Open Source
All code written for FlightGear is opensource and available for anyone to use.
Pro Crash animations in some aircrafts
Pro It has world-wide multiplayer
Pro Live cockpit
Pro A lot of aircrafts to add
Pro It has amazing graphics
Pro You can almost recreate real incidents
Pro No bugs
Cons
Con The main world is boring
There is usually only one way to go with no rewards for choosing different paths.
Con The story is throwaway
Literally copies super Mario bros. Nolok is essentially a Bowser clone.
Con Difficulty is all over the place
At the end of the main world some levels are very easy and some are very hard.
Con Not as graphically advanced as commercial competition
Con Getting stuck upside down
After a crash a pilot may be stuck in an upside down position with no way to recover.