When comparing Cogmind vs Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup, the Slant community recommends Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup for most people. In the question“What are the best roguelikes/roguelites on PC?” Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup is ranked 8th while Cogmind is ranked 36th. 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 Awesome graphics and animations
Pro Lots of different ways to play
You can play as a tank, you can play stealth, you can be the long range you can be short range, you can excel at hacking, the list goes on...
Pro Traditional turn based system
This is really nice if you're in a situation where you need to quickly start and stop playing a game without it wrecking the game. Also gives you time to think up more strategy.
Pro Deep story
No two runs are usually the same.
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 Built only for Windows
There is a possibility to play the game on Linux and Mac through Wine though, it works perfectly.
Con While neat, ASCII Art is not for everyone
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.