When comparing Sleep is Death vs FlightGear, the Slant community recommends FlightGear for most people. In the question“What are the best games on Linux?” FlightGear is ranked 23rd while Sleep is Death is ranked 132nd. 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 Creator and player asymmetric dynamic
One user creates a scenario that the other will play out in what is a very intimate and strange gaming experience.
Pro Name Your Price
At a minimum fee of $1.75 customers can choose their price for the game, deeming whatever dollar value they feel is fit for the developers.
Pro Cross platform
Sleep is death is available for Windows, Mac and Linux systems.
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 Poor graphic interface
The graphic interface is really unintuitive and just a plain chore to use.
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.