When comparing Pappu Pakia vs Tales of Maj'Eyal, the Slant community recommends Tales of Maj'Eyal for most people. In the question“What are the best open-source games?” Tales of Maj'Eyal is ranked 25th while Pappu Pakia is ranked 95th.
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Pros
Pro Good for quick play sessions
A quick game that is light on depth being casual game that one can jump in and out of with no issue.
Pro Easily played on any device
Pappu Pakia is an HTML5 game which means and there is no download required. Anyone can play it in an HTML5 compliant browser as well as it's own webapp from the Chrome Store (as long as one has Chrome or Chromium installed).
Pro A lot of depth through many character classes and quests
Pro Pretty polished compared to other open source games
Pro Easier to learn than some other roguelikes
The graphical menu system helps a lot.
Pro Built-in but optional chat system for bragging or when you get lost
Cons
Con Bad balancing
Not all classes are balanced. Some are clearly weaker. As an example, every class that can summon, cannot avoid their summons to waste their skills. This is not important, except if you only have 1 summon, like the alchemist, that often charges you.
Con LUA bugs
It depends on LUA for many (if not most) things, this could ease the development, but in the end, the result is several crashes which are hard to debug.
Con Heavy resource need
Lots of graphics effects, which may make the game run slower on older systems.
Con Graphics may not appeal to everyone
Mostly because they are a mix of styles assembled throughout the lifetime of the project instead of one consistent whole.