Reviews

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  (▰˘︹˘ ▰)

  Oct 24, 2021

  i don't understand
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  cynestsadista

  May 26, 2016

  It's a fun game with a surprising increase in difficult the further you dive into the story. There are multiple timers that contribute to level challenge bonuses as well as in-game bonuses & power ups. Some mahjong games set up the tiles randomly, but this one obviously follows a type of algorythm where the game wont screw you on the first few steps, offering you a short grace period before you run into issues. (There's one puzzle I couldn't get more than 15% complete before having to use every power up I could, eventually resorting to using most of my crystals to completely refill the powerup bar.) As you progress through the storyline you'll find yourself needing to use these power ups more and more as the puzzles get more difficult. One of the power ups will reshuffle the board. There's a neat feature that allows you to remove a tile from the board and hold onto it to match later, but you have to match it before being able to pick up another one. There are hundreds of challenge puzzles available that don't affect the story portion of the game. Another portion of the game involves "boss fights" that play very similarly to games like Bejeweled or Pokemon Shuffle. The instructions for these games aren't explained very well, so it took a while for me to catch on. There are health orbs for yourself and the enemy. The bar next to the health bar shows which color orbs will give you "crystal energy" to attack. For the entirety of the first boss fight, I had to avoid matching purple orbs or I would get attacked. Each time I was able to attack, my color changed. The achievements are buggy right now but the game just came out so it should get fixed soon.
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  Spicy Potato

  May 30, 2016

  I like the art style, I the the story. The game is fun and the powerups make it interesting. Still a little buggy. I got stuck on level 8 (billiard room) and it was on this level that the game ate 3 of my little magic powerups and I had to restart it to keep playing. Downloaded on my mac and I can't exit the game without a force quit or taking it out of fullscreen mode. It looks gorgeous on the retina screen! but super annoying to exit. I also tried adding a new profile while playig on my mac, and was unable to type a player name. It worked again after restarting the game. The game just came out, so there's bound to be minor annoyances and buggy things.
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  Keitarooo

  Jun 17, 2016

  Nice mahjong game, good graphics, lots of levels. WHy I don't recommand for now ? Dev are not fixing bugs... and there are a lots of them :(
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  clint

  Jul 15, 2016

  The best Mahjong game I've ever come across. The Mahjong Huntress embeds the classic tile matching game into a story, in which a young woman has to find out what happened to her fiance. In order to progress through the story, the player has to solve the boards which unlock hints about the fate of the young man. Apart from simply cleaning the board of tiles, there are a number of objectives which contribute to the player's energy bar. Depending on its charge, the player is able to use certain powers which can put an already lost game back onto the path to success. Another nice feature is the combo system, which is basically a timer counting down a few seconds between each move, awarding more points if the player managed to match several tiles within the ever decresasing intervals. The difficuilty of the boards is steadily increasing, forcing the player to sacrifice speed in favor of choosing the right tiles. Unwisely chosen matches will quickly force the player to sacrifice his energy for above mentioned special powers. But beware - once the energy is depleted, the player will have to start over with simpler boards to recharge the energy bar. In addition to the story mode there are more than 230 so called mystery boards, which are offering a wide range of tile layouts to choose from right from the start. The presentation is very nice, offering pleasant visuals along with a functional and intuitive user interface. If you were searching for a Mahjong game, you've just found it. Especially with the very low price tag attached there is absolutely no reason not to recommend it. Info: The Mahjong Huntress runs very smoothly under Linux as well. I've encountered no problems on my 64Bit-Ubuntu Linux configuration. UPDATE: So far I've encountered only a few bugs. Some minor graphic glitches, some spelling errors. Worst bug was a game crash after the boss fight in the mausoleum. After restarting, I couldn't progress because the game didn't open chapter 3 for me. I had to create a new player profile and start over.
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  foursmols

  Jul 17, 2016

  For the mostpart, The Mahjong Huntress is a decent mahjong game with a pleasing art style and engaging story. But I just can't recommend a game with simply far too many bugs that have gone seemingly ignored and unsquashed by the dev. One of which crashed the game and caused every single achievement to unlock.
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  gwndlyn

  Oct 11, 2016

  I haven't gotten very far, but I really like this game. Sure, there are timed levels, but you don't automatically fail if you odn't meet the time. The one thing I'd want, though, is a way to undo a move.
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  yalkinerk

  Oct 12, 2016

  As an old mahjong player i have a lot of words to say... First The Good Ones :) - Game art is very good... - It has a story which most of mahjong games don't have... - There are different power-ups that makes the game better than a casual mahjong game... - Lots of levels and puzzles - I bought the game with %90 off...cheap to have fun for a long time And The Bad Ones :( - Game has bugs...a lot !!! - The music is very good at the beginning but after some levels you will see that "every" game it has the same music which never changes...after few levels i had to turn it off...really so so so boring when you play a lot... - Some power ups don't have any meaning to use (like find matched ones etc.) anyway...if dev's fix bugs and can make a change at the ost...it will be a good game for everyone...i will recommend this game anyway...buy...try...and if you don't like take your money back...steam gives you this chance already ;) good game :)
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  <<CYB3R_WOLF>>

  Oct 12, 2016

  This game makes me want to crawl up the ceiling and it never happened before in similar games. The story is transparent, basically like the 80% of those kind of games,nothing new.(Why everyone is copy-pasting those storylines? I mean cmon theres so much options, why? ) Very frustrating bugs, like the one when you use your "shuffle" power and then the tiles shuffle, but have no image on them and you cant do anything than restart the game and you wont get back your energy. Makes you use too much powers, i think its ridiculous you cant finish it without using any power at least once and there are those objectives "finish the game without using any powers" , its not freaking possible! You will run out of moves every couple moves. Also there where couple rules she mentioned outside of tutorial and not about the powers and if you forget what she said, theres no way you can read it second time. Why its not inside the tutorial aswell? Those ridiculous energy crystals you will be forced to use, once you run out of them, theres pretty much no way you can finish the game and you will end up playing the level over and over and over and over ... and over ... and over ... again ..till you will be just done with the game. The gameplay goes like this : No moves left, no moves left, no moves left, no moves left, no moves left, no moves left, no energy crystals left, play over, play over, play over, play over, play over, play over ... until you will want to avada kedavra it to the moon. The only nice things about this game are the art, music and steam achievments and cards. Probably the first game i will return...
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  Ayrton Senape

  Oct 16, 2016

  There are no bug in this updated version of the game. But I don't recomand this game because the idea of the charm and the power-ups is fine, but it does not work how it should be. Its designed bad (you must use too much power ups to pass a level) and makes the game boring after few hours. I'm sad because there are good ideas behind this game, but the implementation does not sodisfy me.
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  kony

  Nov 6, 2016

  I have never played Mahjong before, but this game got me into it. Decent tutorial too. Mediocre music, very nice backgrounds, great graphics, nice sound effects, and overall very enjoyable Mahjong game. On a downside, sometimes you are required to use special powers to complete a map (and you have limited "powers", which are saved from map to map, so you can actually lock yourself out if you overuse it), and there are boss fights, which are a different kind of game - rare, but still, I'm not running a mahjong game to play something else. Not sure if I'd recommend it for the full price, but on a sale it's a good game to get, especially if you want to learn Mahjong but are too lazy to read how to play the game. I'll probably abandon it after a few hours of a gameplay, but it's still alright and I finally learnt how to play Mahjong.
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  Thetigerisariver

  Jan 31, 2017

  I bought this game ridiculously discounted, so seeking a refund is really not worth my time, but that is the only reason I am not getting one. If you play this game and ask yourself the question "Wait, did the devs not write a collision algorhythm that ensures the boards are actually solvable?" then rest assured they really didn't. Which in my opinion makes the game fail at the very basics of a solo mahjong game. It's a shame, because I otherwise enjoy the cheese of the game itself and would even be willing to overlook the typos and similar issues. Save yourself the stress and avoid this.
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  Tabascofanatikerin

  Feb 8, 2017

  It's a joke. How am I suppoused to beat "Mahjong Huntress" or even progress when I'm stuck? I'm stuck at level 8 and have replayed it more than a dozen times but can't beat it. The stones always lie so badly that sooner or later the possible pairs are gone and it's "Game Over". Also I'm out of power ups (or power up juice) because I had to use them before to get that far. And don't get me wrong: I'm not a beginner in Mahjong: I've played it a lot, it's one of my favourite puzzle games and time wasters. So I notice which pairs are good to remove at one moment and which ones aren't. And it's not even like I can buy powerups or other helpful elements (mictro transactions) to get further. Not that I miss that but I'm very surprised, though... So: No, look for other Mahjong titles. This one is pretty much broken, designed badly and not fun. Last but not least: The story. Yes, there's a story around all the levels about a young British lady (you) trying to solve a mystery of her disappeared fiancé. She doesn't love this future husband but must find him or else she and her family get suspected and have to live in shame. Now if that's not motivating enough to get through this broken game, I don't know... My guess is that her fiancé got stuck pub getting wasted just like how I got stuck in the game. I don't care anymore.
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  Snub

  Jan 29, 2022

  lol just use cheatengine.
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  Dutch

  Nov 27, 2017

  It's mahjong.
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  Chris P. Chicken

  Feb 18, 2018

  There's a microtransaction type of system that was implemented but abandoned in the form of "crystals". As others have stated, the Mahjong itself isn't even well programmed, because often times, various puzzles were impossible to solve. Hence, the player can use their pendant to store a single Mahjong tile at a time during the game, so they can basically cheat...but the player has to cheat to solve some of the puzzles (which I think are randomly generated). Whether that was because they wanted the user to buy the "crystals" or because of poor programming, I don't know.
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  NS Plover

  Apr 1, 2018

  The other negative reviews are right. Most of the hands require power ups to complete because the layout is not a winnable configuration. Power ups are not awarded at the rate they need to get used. Very poor. Plus some genius decided that a Mahjong game *just needs* to have match 3 battles (where they don't bother telling you the rules) at various points in the game. If I wanted match 3, I would have purchased match 3. If you like achievements, this is probably not the game for you - unless you like timed Mahjong unwinnable layouts. Very disappointed in this game.
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  Cat on Linux

  Aug 11, 2018

  -- Review for Linux version of this game -- Nice casual game with story mode and many additional levels. Sound, story and visuals somehow resembled HOG setup, and basically you solve mahjong puzzles instead of HOG puzzles to progress in the story. Each level have 3 requirements and you will be awarded stars for completion of each requirement separately (so if you completed 1st and 3d on your first play you can replay it again and aim for 2d only which makes it a bit easier if you play one level for couple of times). Some levels are poorly balanced and will require usage of powerups (make sure to save crystals you get from bonus levels and from replays and use it only in such cases when you can't progress). Technically wise I haven't encountered any major issues while running it on Debian 9 with Nvidia drivers. Game works well. However there's a discussion on game forums where people stated they had issues with this game. Make sure to check game forums before purchase so you'll get better idea if this game is for you. Recommended as good casual timewaster! ;)
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  Razonix

  Dec 30, 2018

  I really wanted to like and recommend this game, but I simply can't do it. The graphics are good looking, there're some cool songs and sound effects, the overall gameplay is acceptable, with some power-ups and everything and there's even a story as a background to keep you engaged. So, what's the problem? The random premise of the game, combined with some relentless conditions that have to be fulfilled in order to advance, turns the experience that it was supposed to be fulfilling into something completely stressful. In other words, if you're expecting to play something casual and relaxing, you're gonna be extremely disappointed. If you'd like my advice, save your money, or better yet, save your time: Don't give this one a try.
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  rjs

  Apr 3, 2019

  The game is unbalanced and it becomes impossible to progress past the 8th board. The 7th board is only passable with extremely lucky RNG. The power ups do not help with the game progression because it is impossible to build up the power meter that charges them since the board runs out of moves after only a few turns. The pendant mechanic only buys one or two additional moves before there are no more moves left.