When comparing PlaneShift 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 PlaneShift is ranked 52nd. 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 Innovative to its core
It is different from the indiscernible mass of industry gruel (to avoid other four-letter words) out there.
Pro Win, Linux, Mac
Windows, Linux and Mac versions.
Pro Very detailed world
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 Lacks players
Con Lots of running around & back-tracking
Without mounts, because they have a long and advanced quest line you need to do to get them.
Con Quests are janky
Once you had to type to do/answer quests. I.E. had to get into the mind who made these quests.
Now for the most part you can still do this, but they also give you selection of answers. For the most part, you still need to type in answer for some quests.
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.