When comparing Transformice vs agar.io, the Slant community recommends Transformice for most people. In the question“What are the best browser-based multiplayer games?” Transformice is ranked 10th while agar.io is ranked 11th. The most important reason people chose Transformice is:
It's a mob simulator, where every mouse only looks out for themselves. There's no time for a coordinated approach, even worse - getting to the cheese often involves doing so at the expense of others.
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Pros
Pro Pure, hilarious chaos
It's a mob simulator, where every mouse only looks out for themselves. There's no time for a coordinated approach, even worse - getting to the cheese often involves doing so at the expense of others.
Pro Lots of puzzles
There is a huge number of puzzles to play through with the same, simple goal in each of them - get the cheese to the hole. There's even an achievement for completing over 1000 different maps.
Pro Deep gameplay
While looking overly simplistic there is a good bit of strategy to the game as players can split their cell in order to confuse or surprise attack foes as well as spit out excess cells in order to change ones size.
Pro Players can customize their cell
For those that register for the game they can customize their cell in order to have specific words or even use pictures. This allows one to stand out in the game and other players may take notice if you are often playing.
Pro Fun and addictive
The mechanics of navigating the screen area aren't all that easy to understand, so it's as much about figuring out the limitations of the board as it is about running away from the big guy.
Cons
Con The shaman is the only part of the game which makes gameplay worthwile, but it is restricted to only one person out of dozens per match.
It seems like all the fun in the game comes from being a shaman, but it is locked to a single person per match in a room of several dozens people, because all the matches in the game are about gathering cheese, which grants you scores, in which the game compares your scores whit the other players on the same room as you so the first person who has most scores becomes the shaman, and once you become a shaman your score is reset so you have to do it all again to become the shaman.
Gathering cheese isn't as fun and as rewarding as being a shaman, where the real "joy" is, since it is the most difficult and valuable part of the game. Every feature of the game, such as upgrades, goes fowards in valorizing being a shaman but doens't let you be a shaman all the time, which makes the game a boring experience all the time you aren't really a shaman.
Con Horribly boring gameplay
The gameplay is not even addicting, it has a crappy music, it is limiting, and have nothing that really takes your attention at at all. You just go, catch cheese, and ocasionally be a shaman that does some good stuff. Most of the time you just stand up wanting to be a shaman, instead of having the actual fun, which is being the shaman.
Plus the game is so horribly boring i can't even measure. It's awfull...
Con Difficult to understand and to master, which leads to frustation
The game is all about placing objects to help other mice to get cheese, but even so, it is completely physics based on all senses, and even throguh general physics have some logic that is easy to understand, in this game it is difficult to utilize right the physics, because you constantily have to deal whit mice that scrambles the physics all the time, such as creating a bubble to go up and then the mice goes and screw everything up from the buddle direction and so on. The implementation of the mice in this physics game gameplay make it difficult for playing, and this can result in frustration on how hard the game can be.
Con Random respawns can lead to instant death
The game often sees players respawn right next to a large enemy which leads to them instantly dying, this can be frustrating when it happens a lot to a player.