# Kemono Mahjong — user reviews > 113 indexed App Store user reviews of Kemono Mahjong by Michael Starling, rated 4.90/5 from 311 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/kemono-mahjong/id1207602683/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/kemono-mahjong/id1207602683.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 284 · 4★ 20 · 3★ 6 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 1 ## What do users think of Kemono Mahjong? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 👍 Excellent tutorial for beginners - 🎨 Beautiful graphics and UI design - 🎮 Engaging AI opponents with different playstyles - 💰 One-time purchase with no ads - 📱 Fully playable offline - 🔧 Customizable tile styles and settings - 🎵 Great music and sound design - 📚 Comprehensive yaku reference guide - ⚙️ Adjustable game speed and difficulty - 🎭 Charming character designs and voice acting - 🏆 Detailed scoring breakdowns after games - 🎯 Clear and intuitive interface - 📊 Stats tracking and game history **Cons** - 🐛 Pung/Chi calling bugs preventing valid moves - 📱 Portrait-only orientation on iPhone - 👁️ Tiles too small on some devices - 🎨 Recent tile graphics update poorly received - ⚡ Slow AI discard speed after updates - 🎭 Furry character theme not for everyone - 🔗 Online multiplayer connection issues - 🎮 Questionable AI fairness and luck - 🔊 Sound/music playback issues - 📐 iPad landscape mode display problems - 🖱️ Discard button placement causes thumb strain - 🎯 Furiten rule implementation confusing - 📊 No iCloud save synchronization **Commonly reported bugs** - Pung/Chi notifications not triggering for valid moves - Tiles overlapping on iPad after version 26 update - Game freezing/soft-locking during gameplay - Online account registration email verification failing - Online game progress stuck in loading state - Tile visibility issues in landscape mode on iPad - Furiten rule incorrectly preventing tsumo wins - Ron declaration causing game crashes - Data loss after app updates - Tile rendering issues with light colors on iPad Air 2 - Occasional invalid move notifications appearing - Character unlock display not showing unlocked characters **Most requested features** - Landscape orientation support for iPhone and iPad - Larger tile sizes for better visibility - Humanoid character alternative DLC - Larger/repositionable discard button - Opponent hand reveal in replay mode - Local multiplayer/hot-seat mode - Red dora (5s) option - Alternative starting points (25000 instead of 30000) - Japanese voice acting - Left-handed button layout option - Full table view with all tiles visible - Furiten status indicator improvement - iCloud save synchronization - Additional female characters - Game speed adjustment slider - Other mahjong rule sets beyond Riichi ## Newest reviews (15 of 113) ### 4/5 — シンプルな内容、広告無しの買切り *2026-02-13* スマホの麻雀アプリで、シンプルな内容で広告無しの買切りは珍しいし、これらの点だけで十分評価できる。ただ、不自然な序盤の1・9牌のポンが気になるので、ルールに「後付け」の有無を追加して欲しい。 ### 4/5 — 아이패드 26버전 업데이트 이후, 마작 패가 겹쳐보여요. *2026-01-08* 업데이트 이후 여전히바닥에 버리는 마작 패가 겹쳐보여요. 해결 부탁드립니다. ### 4/5 — Could be better *2025-11-29* This game is one of the best implementations of offline mahjong, and I really love it. But sometimes it’s a bit sus how opponents are playing. It’s weird when a relatively weak opponent (2 stars) finishes the game with almost 90k points, winning one game after another. I would appreciate if developer could implement a feature to see opponent’s deck in replay mode. Maybe I’m wrong, but it seems that some games are designed to lose or win. ### 4/5 — IOS 26 problem *2025-10-13, version 1.40.60* Just updated to IOS 26 and the board does not render properly. ### 4/5 — Nice but *2023-11-14, version 1.26.00* Ai isn’t quite smart It is a shame because main focus of the app is singleplayer. ### 5/5 — 가로모드 기원 *2023-07-25, version 1.23.50* 가로모드 지원 기원합니다… ### 5/5 — Best Riichi Mahjong app *2023-07-22, version 1.23.01* Love the game. Love the AI. Hate the furries. ### 4/5 — Has this game been updated? *2023-01-13, version 1.17.20* Hi, I’ve been a mahjong player for about two decades now and have been playing online apps - including this one for a very long time now. I used to love playing this app. However, I’m a bit puzzled by something that is ruining the experience for me. Has this game been updated and made harder or something? Now, I’m just like any seasoned mahjong player: I have won my fair share of games in this app (sometimes by huge margins) and other games I have lost (sometimes by big margins), but recently, the AI seem incredibly lucky and next to impossible to beat straight away (this skewed-luck is especially noticeable in 3 player mahjong mode due to the near complete removal of the manzu suit and the fact it’s only three players playing). For example: the deer character (I forget her name) got three consecutive baiman riichi hands in a row within her first four turns of those hands (and this was as dealer). Even weirder is it appears if the AI know exactly what is in the other players’ hands (including yours). I just played six games there and in about half of those the AI were discarding bizarre choices of tiles which then would inexplicably match up with another AI’s win for that hand (e.g. The parrot character was dealer and discarded honours and terminals for their first five turns, the snow leopard who was South, discarded a 7 Souzu, then a 4 Souzu, then a 5 Souzu, a 3 Souzu then a 1 Souzu (none of these were immediate discard draws from the wall) and with the 1 Souzu dealt into parrot’s menzen honitsu 1-4 Souzu wait hand. This character did this weird discarding of suit tiles at the start of four different hands in the same game and dealt into the other two AI hands - two of these hands being for single tile waits for closed, ordinary hands (again where discards were only terminals and honours and riichi was not declared) and within the first four or five turns, and this behaviour only occurred when my owns hands were a 2 or 3-Shanten which I would then turn into a riichi hand on average by my 3rd turn and where I would mostly only discard typical starting tiles - unneeded honours and terminals. So it totally puzzles me how she did that without knowing what tiles were where.) In fact another egregious example of the above has been the numerous times where I and the AI after me have both declared riichi and one of the other two AI will inexplicably declare a simple pon or chi from the AI before them (without Dora or having declared a yaku-hai or itsu, which is weird considering I never have the kuitan rule accepted) and then oddly, due to the shift in tiles due to the call, the player after me would draw and discard my winning tile. Now, I know this is a valid tactic to potentially mess with ready hands but it’s odd how often I’ve been in that situation in this app and had my winning tile shifted like that. What’s even weirder is how if you verse any random three characters they will play brilliantly, have superb defence and have insane luck and soundly beat you, you then immediately rematch those characters (choosing them in the selection screen and sitting them in the exact same positions as before) and they are inexplicable and incredibly easy to defeat due to them making beginner errors and other obvious plays. Then you play other characters and they go back to being extremely difficult - it’s bizarre. I’m genuinely starting to think I have a weird or buggy version of this game or something. ### 5/5 — THE BEST Mahjong game *2022-11-11* If you were to download one legit Mahjong game, this would be the one. Great presentation, music, instructions, and gameplay. I hope this one stays on the App Store for a long long time. ### 5/5 — Amazing *2022-07-25* I use this app to get better at mahjong without waiting for a game online. It’s extremely fun and challenging at the same time. I would highly recommend it if you love Japanese mahjong as much as I do. ### 5/5 — Great way to learn *2022-07-04, version 1.15.03* Super fun and easy way to start! ### 5/5 — Tsumo! *2022-06-30* Got into mahjong with Final Fantasy XIV, then let my sub expire. Got this app and can't stop playing. I might be addicted. It's a very accessible app, very well put together, everything I'd expect. Also it's rare that a mobile app ever successfully convinces me to buy its merch. Looking forward to those adorable characters on some cards :) It's a travesty how few ratings this has. It's truly top tier riichi mahjong and I look forward to many more hours losing to a wolf. ### 4/5 — Needs landscape *2022-06-19, version 1.15.03* Still very new to the app, I will update this later once I have used it more but I wanted to let anyone who is considering it know that while it looks like a very good app, it’s missing landscape orientation so you have to play in portrait orientation. ### 5/5 — 개꿀잼 *2022-06-07, version 1.15.03* 개꿀잼이에요 ### 4/5 — 가로모드 지원 좀.. *2022-05-03* 세로모드도 좋은데 보기가 어려워요 ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Updated graphics are terrible *2020-03-11, version 1.09.63* “Improved tile graphics” look like they’re straight out of 1997! This just ruins an otherwise amazing app. ### 1/5 — 업데이트 후 너무 구려짐 *2020-02-17* 패 디자인도 촌스럽고 눈에 잘 안들어옴 속도도 너무 느려짐.... 업데이트 전 패랑 속도로 다시 설정도 안되고 하.... 제발 다운그레이드 하던가 다시 업데이트 좀.. **Developer response:** 오래된 플라크를 다시 가져올 업데이트가 곧 있습니다. 속도 문제도 조사하겠습니다. 감사. / I have an update soon that will bring back the old tile set. I will investigate the speed issue too. Thanks. ### 1/5 — Онлайн игра *2020-02-11* 20 минут искал игру и не нашёл ### 1/5 — Eye straining *2018-05-04, version 1.06.6* It’s not bad but I can’t play this because to pieces especially the opponents are way too unessesarily small on my iPhone X. I have perfect eyesore too. ### 2/5 — Meh *2025-09-08* Release a ten buck DLC/in-app purchase that exchanges the furry characters for humanoid ones and you’ll make bank. As it is the furry characters are pretty distracting. ### 2/5 — Le jeu bug *2017-08-28* Le jeu bug sur iPad Pro ,les tuiles sont bloquées momentanément ,c'est assez pénible une mise jour s'impose **Developer response:** Merci pour votre commentaire. Je suis désolé que vous avez eu une problème avec le jeu. J'aimerais vous aider et résoudre la problème. Pourriez vous me contacter à info@kemonomahjong.com avec plus de détails avec ce qui arrive avec le jeu sur votre iPad Pro? Merci beaucoup! ### 3/5 — Bug that prevented Pung *2026-04-11* I was liking this, aside from the fact that the tiles are extremely small. I found a bug that prevented me from punging a 3 of bamboo even though it was the player who went ahead of me who discarded it and I had chow/pung notifications turned on. Devs should fix this. Otherwise it obfuscated the rules. ### 3/5 — Ошибка *2025-05-18* Почему я не могу объявить цумо при фуритене? В правилах нет такого, фуритен нельзя объявить только с взятием у кого-то На цумо фуритен не распространяется Можно как-то убрать это? Это является ошибкой, и уже не в первый раз ### 3/5 — No landscape *2022-06-14, version 1.15.03* This app can not be landscaped when I play on iPhone.Please add the setting on the next update！ ### 3/5 — 온라인 게임 불가 *2022-04-01* 온라인 계정 생성 시 메일이 오는데 클릭 눌러도 페이지 빈화면만 나와여 ㅠㅠ ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Cute and Fun app *2026-06-26, version 1.52.01* It’s a cute app and worth the cost. Whenever I can’t play Mahjong Soul, this app fills my need for riichi. ### 5/5 — Мультиплеер *2026-05-28, version 1.51.00* Хотелось бы как-то в мультиплеер поиграть, пасс энд плей или по сети. Благодарю за отличную игру! ### 5/5 — Riichi at its furry finest *2026-04-15, version 1.51.00* I bought this already knowing how to play Riichi. But this app is patient, understanding, fun, and clever in its teaching methods. You will feel confident in learning. Options to swap out the Japanese Character tiles for anglicized numbers is a welcome choice for those who wish or need it. The multitude of characters are awesome. Programmed in with different playstyles and thus "difficulties" is a grand touch. Speed of discard is able to be modified as well so you can play a faster game too. What sets this game apart is that is a one time purchase with zero ads. Ever. And can be played fully offline. There is no matchmaking lobby BUT if you have three friends who wish to play you can create a room and play against them, live. I highly recommend this game! ### 5/5 — Awesome Riichi Game *2025-06-23, version 1.40.10* I am a Western & Hong Kong Mahjong Player. This App is a really great phone App if you are learning Japanese Riichi Mahjong. The graphics are beautiful and the layout unique especially for phones. The bots have different playing styles. The Tutorial easy to understand. It offers a vastly different play experience to the normal manga-anime style games out there in Riichi land. Highly recommended : ) ### 5/5 — 온라인 불가능 *2025-05-31* 다 좋은데 온라인 가입이 안됩니다. 메일이 도착하고 링크들어가서 앱 다시 열면 온라인 연결 불안정하다고 안됩니다. 와이파이 연결되어있었는데요.. ### 5/5 — Риичи *2025-03-29* Отличная игра ### 5/5 — 미치겠다 *2023-11-22* 3명이서 작당모의하고 나 작업치는 기분이 들 정도의 난이도라서 하다가 폰 던지고싶다가도 진짜 가끔 한번씩 좋은 패 나와서 이기고나면 그 쾌락이 말도 못함… 진짜 난이도 밸런스 너무 잘한게 욕나오면서도 폰 계속잡게 만드는 밸런스임 ### 5/5 — 소리가 안나요 ㅜ 음악이 안나옵니다 게임은 재밌어요 *2023-11-04* 소리 안나는 것 좀 해결해 주세요 ### 5/5 — Great *2023-09-08* Been playing on this app for a few years now, really fun. I noticed on my iPad though the landscape mode looks different now and the right side players avatar covers up their tiles when they call, forcing me to go to portrait mode to see what it was. Any chance the old layout can be an option? Thank you! Otherwise love it and love the characters ### 5/5 — The furries taught me how to play Riichi Mahjong so I can devastate FFXIV *2023-08-01, version 1.23.62* Good app :) --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-06.*