When comparing Ziggurat 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 Ziggurat is ranked 111st. 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 Assortment of enemies that have varied designs
There is a large assortment of enemies to battle in game that all have varied designs.
Pro Procedurally generated levels and random weapons upon start
Ziggurat has large procedurally generated levels where the player start out with a different weapon each time, making for fresh and different experience every time a game is played.
Pro Inspired by Hexen and Doom
Ziggurat is heavily inspired by the classic PC games Hexen and Doom, making for a current gen refresh.
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 Short
The title is pretty short, with only five levels the game could potentially be beaten in under an hour.
Con Death is inevitable and happens often
Being that Ziggurat is a roguelite game, death will happen and it will happen often. While it is by design it can get infuriating at times.
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.