Find Awesome Games
Select the tags you're interested in to get a personalized feed of games and help others.
When comparing Project Reality vs FlightGear, the Slant community recommends Project Reality for most people. In the question“What are the best free (No F2P!) games for PC?” Project Reality is ranked 2nd while FlightGear is ranked 17th.
Specs
Graphic design3D
LicenseFreeware
MultiplayerYes
PlatformsWindows
PvENo
Co-OpYes (teams)
Game engineRefractor 2
GenreRealistic, First person shooter
PvPYes
SingleplayerNo
Graphic design3D
Licenseopen source
MultiplayerYes
PlatformsWindows, macOS, Linux, Raspberry Pi, FreeBSD, others
PvEno
Ranked in these QuestionsQuestion Ranking
Common Questions
Other Questions
Pros
Pro A lot of factions
Pro Free
Pro Dutch trucks
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 A mess
The graphics are kind of dated.
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.