When comparing FreedroidRPG 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 FreedroidRPG is ranked 39th. 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 A lot of usable skills
You can learn all sorts of skills that reference programming and AI. They can be used to repair yourself, deal high damage, slow down, teleport and more.
Pro Retro isometric graphics style
Pro Great dialogue
Dialogue has a lot of character and isn't added in just for obligation. Each line is unique and tells us what the personality is to whom we're talking to.
Pro Map editor available
If you feel like making a whole new world for the game, there's a level editor included.
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 Poor sound design
Every sound is very basic. Even though the soundtrack is passable and has some good tracks, sounds themselves are boring.
Con Inconsistent texture size
A lot of textures are high quality, pre-rendered 3D sprites, but sometimes they're really pixelated, especially when playing on higher resolutions.
Con Linear story
Con Sometimes buggy
FreedroidRPG sometimes presents bugs, and even unexplainable crashes.
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.