Mahjong Club Reviews

A mahjong game with abilities/superpowers, and a game baring similarities to the 'Saki' franchise. It's good to play with friends, and is a nice break from regular mahjong. Encountered a few bugs in multiplayer, but solved quickly. (crashing stops once the victim hosts a game once.) Gameplay has pretty bad balancing issues, but it's all fun and games with friends. It's a pretty barebones game, and there are better mahjong clients out there, but it's definitely a game you should try if you have a group of friends who enjoy mahjong, and if you want a change of pace.

This game is... fine. It feels like more effort went into the menu screens than the game. Play angle is weird. Translations are weird, ranging from "sounds like" translations for riichi (reach) to clunky translations for yaku and even stranger machine translations for dialogue. There are free alternatives that do a better job at teaching the game, from scoring to strategy.

I love the concept and bought the game wanting to love it. However, the English translation is terrible, and the table layout hurts to look at. I'd love to rate this positively, I just can't until there's some actual editing and the game doesn't look worse than a lot of ancient freeware mahjong sims. Also, game is buggy (flashes a lot) and the pop-up user interface is unintuitive. Game could also use more sound effects on pop-ups, calls, etc. And abilities don't work as intended often, score display is bugged, and many other features are buggy.

Steam has tons of Shanghai mahjong tile games but those ain't real mahjong. Mahjong Club is one of a few that is the real deal mahjong game. Despite some bugs, the gameplay is surprising good. Every character in the game has their own special ability and perks that are naturally inclined towards having advantage over the outcome of their hands or favour towards a certain of play style, or having a higher chance of drawing a particular class of tiles, or gravitating towards a certain yaku. The anime-ish characters and their abilities and skills resembles the counterpart from the characters of the Saki anime. It reminds me of the gameplay of some character's special skills somewhat similar to the Saki mahjong games on PSP/PSvita, such as Saki's trademarked special mahjong skill, "Rinshan Kaihou" or the "Dead wall draw". A plus is that Mahjong Club is beginner friendly to those who are new to mahjong. It has a nice beginner friendly tutorial and practice drill to introduce newcomers to the basics of mahjong and yakus.

This Game is influenced by Saki-Mahjong Manga Series, so yeah, every girl has at least one ability, and it's a good choice to trainning Riichi-Mahjong on computer or later online to play with other player when the game updated to add this and then can be played. Points: 9/10 and 87/100

The game is still early in development, I can see some potential in this game, but it's a nice casual game when you're trying to take a break. A recommendation is to incorporate actually playing mahjong into the story mode, and maybe have special rules or something when playing in story mode, because the story mode honestly feels very bare and kind of boring. The tutorial covers the basic rules and types of hands that you can make, which is very helpful to someone like me, who is used to playing Hong Kong Mahjong. Other than the fact that the story mode can use some improvement, I would recommend this game if you want to learn how to play Japandese mahong or you just want to take a break and play some mahjong.

This game has a very clean and accessible Tutorial menu, which is very easy to use and read Yaku from. I have been teaching myself Mahjong for about 5 days. The first 2 Days were horrific, I had no idea what I was really doing, or why I wasn't winning or losing when I thought I should be. Day 3 I bought this Game. By Day 4 this game had taught me all of the basics of Mahjong and I was ready to move on to advanced tutorials - Day 4 also saw my first ever win, which was against real players, and I won with a fairly complex hand of Terminal and Honours, achieving a total of 7 Han, with open hand penalties! This game was undoubtedly the first step to my genuine understanding of Mahjong, and even though I am not a fan of the slightly flirty anime style of Mahjong games like this, I would happily pay the cost of this game again out of gratitude. Honestly, based SOLELY on my desperate need to learn, and the way this title fulfilled that need: [b]10/10[/b] [i]You'll have to decide for yourself how good the game is in any other way.[/i]

i know, i know. but don't judge a review by the person's playtime. This game, is the, if not the most absolute one in teaching you japanese mahjong. It's a first for me, for learning mahjong like, from games and wiki, but still doesn't know how to do it. But this game really speeds up my knowledge on it, and i at least learnt a few tips and tricks from this game's tutorial. It's up to you, but i recommend this game to GOTY.

I play Mahjong as a not very often leisure activity. I got into Japanese Mahjong because my friends buggered me about it, knowing that I play Hong Kong Mahjong. I don't call myself average even after months of play, but I wanted something that helps me train and get used to it(Because the physical size difference and tiles and different rules of each yaku and stuff is more complex than what I'm used to), something that can be played offline in case I don't get internet. This is, if not the best actual Mahjong experience on Steam, is a great tool to either kill your time or hone your skills. I'm just going to ignore story mode, haven't tried that at all since that's not the main reason I bought this game. Graphics are meh, but that really doesn't matter. The characters are drawn okay I guess. Tutorial is great for folks who have zero knowledge into Mahjong to pick it up. I also appreciate the training mode where I need to make a hand in 26 tiles. The ability part does make some interesting elements, have to admit. Lots to pick and play with. Praise to dev for adding a speed slider for those who really want to just have quick games. I do have one issue though: I turned off all sound options but the blaring trumpets still play when I enter a game. Please fix. Would buy at current price.

Decide to try the game out open a quick game. >First game >Yakuman with the Hand of Heaven. I rate this game 48000/10. Best game ever.