Mahjong Demon

This checks all the boxes for me: it’s portrait orientation; everything is easily legible; play against bots that make reasonably smart moves; option to get hints for discards; shows waits, explains points in detail, etc.; doesn’t have goofy gacha/anime/furries (sorry Kemono) aesthetics. Some of the UI could be polished, sure, but this one easily blows the others out of the water. My only wish is that other mahjong variants like HKOS, MCR, etc. were available; I’d pay SO much for that!

This a new review as the older version of this app was much better and less buggy, but once those bugs were fixed and this came out.... now I just played a game with over six West Wind tiles in the game! What!? Please fix and print back the old look. 🤷‍♂️ Update: the newest version is great! Thank you for such a good app!

It’s the same (excellent) game underneath it, but the new user interface is, minus some improvements such as highlighting opponents’ discards more, bad. Tile faces are smaller, muddier, and largely obscured by the overlaid number. Blue dots and bams are nearly the same color. 3D is busier than the previous clear, simple 2D graphics and adds little. Unity takes noticeably longer to start than the old engine. I get it makes multi-platform support a lot better, but what price build convenience? Frankly, I’d pay to have the old version back.