When comparing Spring: 1944 vs Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup, the Slant community recommends Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup for most people. In the question“What are the best open-source games?” Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup is ranked 9th while Spring: 1944 is ranked 43rd. The most important reason people chose Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup is:
There are a few different classes available at character creation, each one has it's own abilities that are different from the others. Creating one is quite simple, which makes for a fast way to get into the game and start playing.
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Pros
Pro Simple to learn
Pro Simple character creation with different classes
There are a few different classes available at character creation, each one has it's own abilities that are different from the others. Creating one is quite simple, which makes for a fast way to get into the game and start playing.
Pro Gold Standard for roguelikes
The controls and replayability have been refined over the years. Whether the player chooses to play with Tiles (graphics) or console (ASCII) the game works well even when choosing online or offline play. Either way there is just enough interface to play the game.
Cons
Con Playing with icons
The 1944 team seems to have gotten its inspiration, strangely, from SupCom, of all RTS games, as opposed to games like Blitzkrieg or Company of Heroes. Units are so tiny on the maps that most of your time will be spent playing with these units as icons as opposed to enjoying the visual effects and actual models.
Con No downloadable version on the official site
You must create an account, and log in to a game, in order to download it. This can be a huge set back for people who want to play lan, but don't want to log in on each computer to download, or simply don't have internet available at the playing spot.
Luckily there are other sites that host the actual download, where it can be downloaded without login.
Con Have to fiddle with controls
Being that the game uses an emulated keyboard on screen it works best on tablet, though is not really the preferred method (but is the only one) since it takes up screen space.