When comparing Pappu Pakia vs OpenRA, the Slant community recommends OpenRA for most people. In the question“What are the best open-source games?” OpenRA is ranked 19th while Pappu Pakia is ranked 95th. The most important reason people chose OpenRA is:
Classic Command and Conquer with overhauled UI, rebalanced gameplay, replays and observer mode.
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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 Modern improved recreation of the classic game
Classic Command and Conquer with overhauled UI, rebalanced gameplay, replays and observer mode.
Pro Fosters creativity
Features an in-game map editor and is geared towards modding.
Cons
Con In a grey zone
(The C&C guys are actually well aware of this project and are fine with it... so this isn't true.)
All CnC assets are still copyrighted by Westwood/EA and not freely available anymore, so per law, it is illegal to share them as mods. Also, Dune was never available as free download, which makes the whole mod illegal as well.