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When comparing Empyrion vs FlightGear, the Slant community recommends FlightGear for most people. In the question“What are the best Space Sims on Steam?” FlightGear is ranked 7th while Empyrion is ranked 12th. The most important reason people chose FlightGear is:
FlightGear has scenery that contains environments to fly in from the whole globe.
Specs
PlatformsWindows
Steam RatingMixed
PlatformsWindows, macOS, Linux, Raspberry Pi, FreeBSD, others
Graphic design3D
Licenseopen source
MultiplayerYes
PvEno
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Pros
Pro Survival, Build, Trade, Explore fight for survival and conquer the galaxy
Pro A lot of content and survival elements
Pro Easy to get into
Pro Build your own everything
Massive Exploration, fights 1st & 3rd p, combat in space and on planets moons bases, huge array of weapons.
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 Not that advanced building system
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.