When comparing Transformice vs Dead Frontier [F2P], the Slant community recommends Transformice for most people. In the question“What are the best browser-based multiplayer games?” Transformice is ranked 10th while Dead Frontier [F2P] is ranked 18th. 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 Jump in and play multiplayer
All players can be in the same world. Just set your 'instance' to a player and you can form a multiplayer group without a queue. Hunt zombie bosses, finish missions, loot, or just kill hordes on the fly.
Pro PvP
You can fight other players in an arena or boast your true player killing skills in the Inner City itself.
Pro Survive the Post-Apocalyptic horror your way
You are left to survive in a world taken over by the living dead. With a plethora of weapons, armor, and skills, take to the streets of the undead nightmare with your own choice of fighting whether it be rifles, machine guns, or even a nice, sharp object. Player run economies allow you to trade for the weapons/armor, medical items, and food you'll need. Of course, you could just loot your food, meds, (and if you're lucky) weapons/armor.
Pro Stable
Works reliably and has almost no bugs.
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 Difficult if you don't know what you're doing
This game has RPG stat elements via leveling up. Your play style and how much you're planning to play this game dictates your stats. If you mess up your stats in the beginning, you'll have a much harder time down the line. Try googling "The Ultimate Dead Frontier Guide" online for a general idea of how to build your character.
Con Lag (on occasion)
Can lead to unfortunate circumstances like disconnection from multiplayer to single player mode during heated situations, enemies may not register hits, etc. This is especially dangerous when you're looting inside buildings in closed spaces.