Mahjong City Tours: Tile Match

This is one of the better Majong games I’ve been playing lately. It’s easy to earn coins and other extras through their daily log ins and goals. I always watch the extra ads to earn more items, and I hoard them until I absolutely can’t pass a level. The only time you “have to spend money” on this game is if you’re too impatient to let your coins build up over time. When they switched it to no timed levels, they cashed out the boosters for 90 coins each (how much it costs to get them at the end of a level), which they did NOT have to do. I was able to get 2 WEEKS of infinite lives off of all the coins I had. The tournaments are fun too. I don’t understand the negative reviews, and I’m glad I downloaded it in spite of them.

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I love this game when it works. I could play it for hours. It is very challenging at times. It keeps my brain enhanced. I have been stuck on a level for over 30 days, walked away and came back and defeated it. I am on level 1086 now, that is how much I love this game! However for about a month or so, on my iPhone X and my iPad Pro 13” when Ads are shown to try to get a few coins or to go further in the game, I am encountering black screens afterwards whereas I hear the mahjong music but it doesn’t allow me to go back to the game without rebooting my iPhone or iPad. Then and only then, I maybe able to play one round and it repeats this cycle all over. I am not going to ruin thousands of dollars worth of devices for this game. I am to the point as much as I like this game, I am going to delete it and download some other manufacturers version. It’s bad enough you have to watch all of the lengthy Ads but it’s not worth it. I refuse to pay for any in app purchases. I will make sure I don’t download anymore games by them.

It’s easy to get addicted to this game. The levels and varying difficulties are great. I like all of the available levels and cities. Lives are replenished quickly which is good. But....there are a couple of things that would make this game better. I don’t understand the coins system. I won 150 coins and after a few games they were almost all gone but I didn't buy anything with them. Where do the coins go? What is the purpose of them? And they don’t build up over time. It’s very random how many I have and when. Also when you get to the end of a game and there is a truly unsolvable situation like the same card on top of itself, you lose the game. Unless you use a cheat. In every other Mahjong game I’ve played you win that level. That part makes it feel like they just want you to purchase cheats or make you use the ones you have.

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This has to be the most obnoxious game I have ever played in my life. It has me, a grown 40-year-old woman, throwing my phone across the room in frustration. The constant “Like us on Facebook!” ads are irritating to someone who is as strongly anti-social-media as I am. I absolutely refuse to spend my hard-earned money on a game. But apparently it is the ONLY way to advance in this game. As annoying as it is, it is horribly addictive. I cannot tell you how many times I have uninstalled it and reinstalled it again just because I couldn’t stay away for long. I have never had this kind of reaction to a game until now. There are very few opportunities to earn coins, and the 30-second ads are entirely too much. Watch one when you lose a level, and be punished with one when you win. I enjoy a good challenge, and boy is this game ever challenging! Bordering on downright impossible. I never, EVER write reviews for games but I felt compelled to write one for this one. Download at your own risk. UPDATE: I just deleted this app again, hopefully for good.

So I love mahjong and I like this game with the premise of traveling through the cities etc. It is addicting to try to play to win. That said, some days it doesn’t recognize you are back so no coins for that and there’s nothing you can do...you can play the same level for days because you can’t win without a cheat and you can’t get any cheats without winning (unless you want to spend money which is kind of silly for a game). I have deleted this once or twice out of sheer frustration that I have to watch a commercial multiple times when I lose but it doesn’t help me win at all. I am tempted to delete it again but I like the game, just not all the BS that comes with it. If there were more clear ways to help oneself win, then all the ads wouldn’t be so bothersome. But pretty much you have to watch the ads and apparently also spend money in order to get this game to really actually work.