
Riichi mahjong with a twist! Play mahjong with party game elements, for both beginners and experienced players.
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Lie, cheat, and steal your way to victory in Dirtbag Mahjong!
Choose your character and join five other dirtbags for a night of riichi mahjong and misdemeanor assault. Nobody here plays fair, and they've all got some dirty tricks up their sleeves.
Dirtbag Mahjong is a complete and beginner-friendly mahjong experience that also offers some party game surprises to keep experienced players guessing.
Features:
A story mode featuring an interesting night and unique conditions under which to try playing mahjong, with six different routes
A full riichi mahjong text guide and first steps interactive tutorial, to help ease beginners into the game or the more difficult story chapters
Six playable characters with unique abilities
Free play mode with both "standard" or "dirtbag" rules, for a complete single-player mahjong experience
Difficulty options ranging from beginner-friendly free play to harder story challenges
Skins for tiles and characters
Hand drawn pixel art
Full gamepad support
Demo features:
The full riichi mahjong text guide, and the first steps interactive tutorial to get beginners started
The prologue and the first chapter of 3 of the story routes
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Reviews
The mahjong is fun, the characters and dialogue are cute, and its super easy to pick up and play whenever I want to play a round or so (rather than a full multiplayer match like in mahjong soul).
Absolutely adore this game. It's a single-player Riichi Mahjong game with characters who really are dirtbags (affectionate,) but goes beyond just being an excuse to play Riichi Mahjong against CPUs- even though you totally could just play normal Riichi Mahjong with CPUs if that's what you wanted to do, as the game has a Normal Mahjong mode for that. The Cool Stuff You Should Know: Writing - Every character has their own story mode to go through with fun cutscenes and high-energy dialogue. - Despite the cutesy, quirky aesthetic, the writing is really good at not being annoying. If you've played other stuff in this style, you'll have a pretty good idea of what I mean. - It is GENUINELY funny. Great comedic timing, and fantastic pacing that avoids dragging dialogue scenes on for too long. Gameplay - Every Chapter in a character's storyline features a unique mission you have to complete during the match in order to advance further into their story. It's not always about winning the match. Sometimes the goal is to manipulate the game so that you rank below another character while avoiding being KO'd out of the match entirely. - As someone who has played a lot of Riichi Mahjong (to win obviously,) having to apply what I know about winning in order to orchestrate some other win condition is AWESOME. I feel like I'm being challenged to prove my mastery of the game in fresh and interesting ways. This is one of those things that I didn't realize I wanted out of a Mahjong game until I had it. Now I want way, way more of stuff like this. - The Kicker: Every character you can play as has a set of unique abilities you can use to affect the board state and other players. Every one has HP and MP, and if you lose all your HP, you're forced to skip a turn to revive. - This DRASTICALLY changes the typical strategy you might employ when building your hands or completing missions. - Abilities are kept low-to-the-ground, but when paired with the complexities of Mahjong, you end up with more than just one way to utilize them. - As an example, as Rhea, you can goad players into discarding mid-range number tiles to avoid your attacks early in the round, and then use her second ability to shuffle the discard piles and potentially throw them into furiten by laying traps inside your own discards BEFORE you shuffle. - That's just ONE strategy you can use with the character that's focused more on putting pressure. There's more. A LOT more you can do with that setup. - I think what I like about this game the most is that it is STILL Riichi Mahjong. It's not a roguelite with some mahjong elements, although I do like Aotenjo as well. It's riichi mahjong with a couple of extra features that work REALLY well with its traditional ruleset and general gameplay. I highly, highly recommend Dirtbag Mahjong if you like mahjong and are looking for a fresh take on the game that isn't super far removed from the actual rules of mahjong. This, to me, is what the ideal single-player mahjong game should play like. The ONLY thing I wish this had was a multiplayer component, and that's because I firmly believe that a multiplayer game of Dirtbag Mahjong, with four human players who can strategize with their character abilities, would go super hard. If you like mahjong, you owe it to yourself to pick this up. Period.
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Languages: English
Hours played at review time, across 49 reviews with recorded playtime.
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real jong hours who up !!
Could have been fun if it wasn't so full of bugs, some blocking (for example: one of Kori's chapter stops just before displaying the score if you used a power even once; you can end up shanten -1 and then the game stops), some just annoying (for example: when played by the computer Thierry's tile swapping power systematically replace the swapped tile by a 1 of character and I ended up frequently with 6 or 7 of them without any means to know which tiles are now impossible to get; Hana's tile masking power is ignored by the computer). It makes going through the stories a pain as you have to play the same chapter again and again just hoping you'll get through the bugs this time.
I highly recommend this game. It has a cute story mode with some really funny writing and the characters really grow on you. This game also has a very useful tutorial and options to play vanilla Mahjong. I played this to learn Mahjong and was delighted by the total package.
Charming mahjong game that gives people their fix while being able to play it on their own (Not very knowledgeable here but it almost always seem that most Mahjong clients are just always-online experiences), and it also features a whole storyline with the cast, which allows you to pick whoever you prefer (the game will indicate the difficulty overall depending on character chosen), and then you'll be presented with all sorts of wacky interactions and bizarre occurrences that culminate in mahjong play. All story stages have specific requests so it throws some more twists into the usual formula. For example, sometimes you have to actually lose the match to progress (attempting to win will actually have you getting a game over while the other characters mock you!); sometimes you can simply go through a whole game regardless of winning or losing, but you cannot use any of your abilities, and so and so. Sometimes it's simply calling Ron. For anyone who enjoys mahjong, this could prove a fun way of experimenting with the game they know and enjoy. On that matter, all mahjong players featured here possess unique abilities that they can use (and in clear "dirtbag" part of the name, they usually cause massive harm to the other players) by charging a MP bar while the game goes on. Spices up the usual formula, and while it's nothing all too damaging (defeating an opponent will simply render their turn void until the next round), it still provides an extra layer of challenge. Although I'm still unsure how come we can't eat the tiles, all things considered. As someone who has no knowledge of mahjong at all, the tutorial is...okay, and the ease of experience makes it fun to get into even if you have no clue how this game is played, but ultimately having to check up information outside the game helps a lot. If you've ever been curious about mahjong, this might very well be your best option to try it out and grab a feeling for it. Just bear in mind that the cast of goobers present love to cause as much psychic damage to their partners as they do towards the player. This game both builds your mahjong knowledge and your mental defense!
I'll start by saying that this game was developed by my friends, so I'm biased in its favour. Nonetheless, it's a fantastic riichi mahjong game that offers unlimited standard play, as well as a fantastic "dirtbag mode" with six characters, each of whom brings unique mechanics and twists on the old formula. On top of that, the story mode has engaging and funny writing and a number of unusual challenges that will require you to play in new ways, such as going for specific yaku or losing on purpose (which can harder than it sounds!). And if you're new to riichi mahjong, there's a very accessible tutorial, both in text and interactive, as well as easy mode. If you're at all interested in mahjong, whether learning it or seeing it from new perspectives, or even just having a well-coded single-player client for your tiles, Dirtbag Mahjong is an excellent choice. Plus, you can play as Hana to finally get that wretched nagashi mangan with only a little bit of cheating.
finally got my ass to learn mahjong
This game is fun and lets me play mahjong on the computer.
i love my friends and i love mahjong :D
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