Showdown! Mahjong Tutorial Included

Showdown! Mahjong Tutorial Included is a Mahjong-inspired roguelike deck-builder. In the Showdown Tournament, you try to declare Riichi or Showdown (Tenpai: one tile away from winning) before you run out of turns, then score enough points before you run out of games. Knowledge of Japanese Mahjong hands is not required, but helps; the tournament also teaches and helps you memorize yaku, with detailed explanations grouped by category.

Tournament resources

You manage resources and combine their effects to improve your scores and progress through the tournament:

• Sponsors: 150 sponsors reward you for meeting their conditions and are designed to synergize with one another and with different yaku.
• Fluffies: 22 Fluffies add, remove, modify or enhance tiles in your wall, helping you score chosen yaku more consistently.
• Books: 8 Books boost yaku scores across different categories.
• Friends: 28 Friends find different kinds of tiles when you give them hints, letting you cheat without changing the tiles in your wall.
• Bosses: 30 Bosses each present a different challenge to overcome to win the tournament.
• Food: 24 Food items grant specific permanent buffs for the current run.

The tournament has increasing difficulty levels designed around advanced rulesets such as furiten. You can also aim for higher scores, unlock achievements and discover hidden content.

Mahjong tutorial

An 11-step interactive tutorial introduces Mahjong’s suits and actions in a clear, step-by-step format. It is intended to help beginners learn the game, and the experience may vary in order. Learning Mahjong can also help you understand Mahjong anime and movies and play other Mahjong or Mahjong-inspired games.