Moonlight Mahjong vs zMahjong Mini
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Moonlight Mahjong
Experience Mahjong Solitaire in immersive 3D VR with intuitive touch controls. Choose from competitive arcade-style levels or relaxing non-competitive modes. Enjoy various gameplay styles, from strategic challenges to casual puzzles.
- Virtual reality 3D Mahjong Solitaire
- Intuitive touch controls
- Arcade style with progressive levels
- Non-competitive relaxation modes
- Scramble, Challenge, Puzzle, and Relaxation modes
- Original 3D Mahjong Solitaire on iOS
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Moonlight Mahjong is Mahjong Solitaire in virtual reality 3D, designed specifically for the iPhone and iPad. Intuitive touch control allows you to tilt and turn, zoom in and out to match tiles in 3D. Play “arcade style” with progressively difficult levels and high scores, or relax with one of the non-competitive game modes. The gameplay is simple yet addictive. Moonlight Mahjong features four main types of play: • Scramble Mode: Match tiles faster than the automated opponent "Tilebot" through increasingly difficult levels. The board is automatically reshuffled when you run out of matches, making this game mode easy to start and fun, yet challenging on the higher levels. • Challenge Mode: Compete against Tilebot in full puzzle mode, with no automatic reshuffling, only undo. Challenge requires more strategy than Scramble. This is the ‘pure’ form of the game, but it is difficult! • Puzzle Mode: Solve puzzle boards with no time limit. Choose any layouts you like. This is the original game mode, what people usually think of as Mahjong Solitaire. • Relaxation Mode: Clear boards with no time limit and automatic reshuffling when out of matches. Perfect for when you're just not in the mood to strategize or rush. Feel free to download the free Lite version with ads, or purchase the paid version without ads. They are the same game; the paid version has a few additional features. Moonlight Mahjong is the original 3D Mahjong Solitaire on iOS, having debuted with the launch of the App Store in 2008. It has been played millions of times and was honored as a "Best Board Game" on the App Store.
zMahjong Mini
A fast-paced solitaire puzzle game where you clear a board by matching identical tiles. Compete for the best times and climb the leaderboards.
- Speed-focused gameplay
- Tile matching puzzle
- Leaderboard support
- Multiple language options
- No hints or retries
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This is the Mini Version of famous zMahjong Solitaire, or Zhongyuan Mahjong (Solitaire)! zMahjong Solitaire is an extremely challenging and additive puzzle game that tens of thousands of people are challenging and enjoying every day! This Mini Version, being 1/4 of the full scale version, adopts same game rules but provides a totally different taste of game. It is speed. Your time will be recorded as precisely as 1/100 second. ***Demo of How to Play in Youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4lgXnHV0_M ----------------------------------------------- ***Game goal Clear the board by removing two same tiles each time as quickly as possible. ***How to remove Condition 1: If two same tiles are on the same row or column and there are no other tiles between them, tap to remove them directly. Condition 2: If one tile can be moved to a new position where Condition 1 can be met by this tile and the other same tile, move this tile first and then tap the other to remove these two same tiles. ****Game features The game proceeds with no hints, no help and no re-try. You can press the “End” button to see remaining removable pairs, but the game will end at the same time. ***Others *It supports Chinese, English, Japanese and Traditional Chinese, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian and Swedish. *It supports leaderboard of Game Center with cetegories of completement times and best time. *It supports local leadearboard of best time.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Moonlight Mahjong at 6.4K against zMahjong Mini's 3. Moonlight Mahjong also leads on chart position (#68 vs unranked). zMahjong Mini's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 85%) and price ($0.99 vs $1.99). On rating, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Moonlight Mahjong costs $1.99 and zMahjong Mini $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Moonlight Mahjong against 4.7 for zMahjong Mini. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Moonlight Mahjong has 6.4K ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 85% of Moonlight Mahjong's written reviews are positive against 100% of zMahjong Mini's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 4 months. Both last shipped on November 10, 2026.
| Parameter | Moonlight Mahjong | zMahjong Mini |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | $0.99 — better |
| Rating | 4.8 (6.4K ratings) — better | 4.7 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 84.9% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 6.4K — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #68 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 46 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Midnight Martian | Shen Zhongyuan |
Customer experience
Moonlight Mahjong
zMahjong Mini
Bugs and requests
Moonlight Mahjong
Reported bugs
4 issues- Tiles not registering properly
- Freezing and crashing on startup
- Incorrect tile highlighting
- Rotation issues on certain devices
Requested features
5 requests- More new and challenging layouts
- Ability to save and resume games
- Option to control tilebot speed
- Syncing progress across devices
- Leaderboards and achievements
zMahjong Mini
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Moonlight Mahjong
No in-app purchases
zMahjong Mini
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Moonlight Mahjong free?
Is zMahjong Mini free?
Which has better reviews, Moonlight Mahjong or zMahjong Mini?
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