When comparing Mindustry vs FlightGear, the Slant community recommends FlightGear for most people. In the question“What are the best open-source games?” FlightGear is ranked 4th while Mindustry is ranked 10th. 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 Very active development
The developer of Mindustry is actively updating the game . Mindustry will most likely not be the same each year because of various big update.
Pro Big campaign
There is a big campaign if you want to play alone.
Pro Great graphics
One of the best looking 2D games.
Pro Free
You won't lose anything if you don't like it.
Pro Active community
Dozen of maps are uploaded every day and you have many choices if you want to play on a server.
Pro Single-player and multi-player
It can be played in single an multi-player.
Pro Open-source
Pro Unique gameplay
Pro Tutorial
Has a good tutorial.
Pro Coop , team and FFA
Multi-player isn't limited to only coop or FFA multi-player game but can do both and have also a team mod.
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 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.