Steam Mahjong Game Senhou Mahjong Lets Players Cheat With Magic Skills
The game positions deliberate rule-breaking as a core mechanic, with the developer explicitly aiming to blend superhuman mahjong with genuine player skill.
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Developer HTaku revealed the Steam store page for Senhou Mahjong on August 5. The online multiplayer mahjong game is planned for Early Access release this summer. Players use skills, framed as magic rather than cheating, to alter matches. Skills include peeking at opponents' hands and manipulating tiles. The developer aims for a balance of 50% luck and 50% strategy.
Senhou Mahjong is an online multiplayer mahjong game where standard rules apply until players activate skills. These skills are grouped into three categories: information-type skills that reveal opponents' hands, tile manipulation-type skills that control draws and tiles, and score-type skills that increase points. The store page describes the mechanic as magic, not cheating.
Skills consume MP that builds during a match, and activating one triggers a cut-in animation visible to all players. Examples include Inferno, which turns all 5s in hand into red fives, and Hoshiyomi, which foresees draws for seven turns. Developer HTaku said he wanted a game with superhuman mahjong like the protagonists of Akagi and Saki, and built it himself when he could not find one.
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