
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
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Reviews
Dirtbag Mahjong is a well-rounded little game that's very personality-forward. This is a nice contrast to my first mahjong game, Kemono Mahjong: a slick, straightforward mahjong simulator. Dirtbag Mahjong, on the other hand, makes its characters a load-bearing part of the experience - and they hold up. The cast of six have distinct personalities that bounce off of each other very naturally. Dialogue is blithe and snappy, constantly barbed but lighthearted. (The amount of table banter is solid, and it's always a delight when the scenario's specifics twist it.) The harebrained schemes and comically asinine bets that make up the story mode are quite funny, though they work better as one-off episodes than coherent narrative arcs. The unlockable mahjong tiles and outfits are great - it's just a bit of a bummer that the outfits, by and large, only really feature in the Free Play mode... and there's not much incentive to play that. The story mode already gave me plenty of mahjong, and there's no other carrot to spend significant time with Free Play (e.g. something to unlock; unseen novelty). I also found myself scratching my head at the ability to end story mode games after any round. Given that objectives are often to end a round either with more than the starting value of points or placed above a certain character, it meant you could complete the game after a successful first round, rather than weather ensuing rounds trying to hold onto your lead. This makes the game significantly easier, but it also made it shorter... which may have been in its favor, keeping the experience short and sweet. This wasn't communicated as unintentional or a cop-out, so I made liberal use of it. An appropriately dirtbag strategy, perhaps! All in all, Dirtbag Mahjong was a great second mahjong game. I wonder if it would be good for a beginner looking to learn mahjong - I worry that the dirtbag abilities could be overwhelming, but the tutorial text is well-presented, difficulty options can worsen opponent AI, and a couple characters' story modes don't ask the player to win to progress. (I would, however, hesitate to recommend it to friends with poor eyesight - the tiles' numbers were *very* hard to read on my laptop screen.) Still, I'm excited to see what's next from this developer. Their comedic character writing skills are strong, and they did a great job adding an extra mechanical layer to mahjong. And this is an easy recommendation for anyone looking for a cozy single-player mahjong game. 7/10 ❤
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Languages: English
Hours played at review time, across 40 reviews with recorded playtime.
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riichi mahjong, misdemeanor assault, two of my favorite things in one place! a true dirtbag of a girl i shall be i'll be either standing victorious, or bleeding out in a pile of discarded winds :]
This is the best game I've found to actually capture the feeling of playing mahjong with my family. The banter, the (attempted) cheating, the pace, the click of the tiles. It's probably the best single-player mahjong simulator I've ever player. Highly recommend! I can't wait for multiplayer mode.
I WILL be Rhea's girlfriend. Move over, losers
This is a good mahjong game that also broke my brain when it asked me to do something other than "win efficently" that was still in a way that makes me consider my skills as a player thoughfully. I really like it! Thierry's the goat.
If you, like me, love Mahjong but have an adult life and: 1) Find it hard to gather friends to your home and convince them to clack around tiles until three of you have been thoroughly destroyed and 2) Find it horrible that you don't have an HP and MP bar incorporated into your Mahjong experience, then: Dirtbag Mahjong is for you! You can, of course, disable the weapons at the table and simply play Mahjong the ~normal~ way. But. If everyone has the green light to be dirtbags to each other, why not embrace it? Strike everyone with lightning! The cast of six characters are cute and the main story of the game involves winning each chapter not by winning at Mahjong but by fulfilling unique conditions. This adds a satisfying spice when your instincts tell you to crush everyone at the table but you know the rule is: "Do not finish with a higher rank than Hana". Now you've gotta figure out how you're achieving that. 10/10, phenomenal Mahjong game.
I wanted a way to start learning richii mahjong (I'm more familiar with American style) and this delivers with a fun visual style while offering challenges to vary up my usual play strategies. Am I GOOD at it? Nope! But it's a great way to unwind at the end of the day.
A really fun way to play mahjong. It's fundamentally a single-player experience, so don't expect a platform for playing competitive multiplayer games. But if you're cool with that, the extra rules make for a decent challenge, and the characters are all lively and fun to engage with. Also a fun way to get better at the game on your own terms before playing against other people.
neat lil mahjong game with the extra added spice that everyone is out to PON you both over the table and uh, over the table seriously, these guys will CHI your behind and KAN all over your PAI get RON'd, idiot
As a long-time Riichi Mahjong player, I'm always thrilled to see new takes on the game, and this is a very interesting one so far! The art style and characters are very charming, and I'm really enjoying the different goals you need to accomplish in story mode. Some of which have been forcing me to try and play in ways that I'm not used to, which has been quite refreshing.
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