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When comparing Unknown Horizons 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 Unknown Horizons is ranked 75th. The most important reason people chose FlightGear is:
FlightGear has scenery that contains environments to fly in from the whole globe.
Specs
Graphic design2D
Licenseopen source
Multiplayeryes
PlatformsWindows, macOS, UNIX-like
PvEno
Co-OpNo
Game engineFIFE
GenreReal Time Strategy
PvPyes
Singleplayeryes
Graphic design3D
Licenseopen source
MultiplayerYes
PlatformsWindows, macOS, Linux, Raspberry Pi, FreeBSD, others
PvEno
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Pros
Pro Windows and Linux
Pro Implemented in Python
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 Implemented in Python
Needs good hardware to be playable.
Con Shallow
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.