When comparing Everspace 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 Everspace is ranked 8th. The most important reason people chose FlightGear is:
FlightGear has scenery that contains environments to fly in from the whole globe.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Non-linear storytelling
Every game session/run is different.
Pro Roguelike
You are already dead, If you don't die in the first run you will in the second or third.
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 Can be repetitive
Some players complain that the game is repetitive.
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.