LinkSame vs Mahjong Vacations
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
LinkSame
This game challenges you to find matching pairs of tiles. Connect them with a path of up to three straight lines to remove them from the board. Clear all tiles to win and aim for high scores by making quick selections.
- Tile matching gameplay
- Pathfinding connection mechanic
- Clear the board to win
- Score-based challenges
- Fast-paced selections
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LinkSame reconstructs MacLinkSame, a popular PPC Mac OS X application (which itself turns out to be based on the traditional Shisen-Sho). All you have to do is spot a pair of tiles bearing the same picture, such that the center of the tiles can be connected by a path consisting of one, two, or three straight line segments, where no segment of the path crosses any other tile. Select both tiles to remove them from the board. Proceed in this way to clear the board, one pair of tiles at a time. Play for fun, or try to beat your previous score by making your selections in quick succession.
Mahjong Vacations
Embark on a global journey with this immersive mahjong solitaire game. Explore over 500 unique boards across dozens of exotic vacation destinations, each with custom music and visuals. Utilize helpful boosts and track your travels on a world map.
- Over 500 unique mahjong boards
- Dozens of exotic vacation destinations
- Customized music and immersive visuals
- World map tracking of visited locations
- Helpful boosts (Shuffle, Hint, Undo)
- Pinch and zoom functionality
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Mahjong Vacations is the biggest, best, and most immersive mahjong solitaire game out there. With over 500 unique boards, dozens of themes and hundreds of challenges, it satisfies even the most enthusiastic mahjong player. Take a trip around the world to dozens of different vacation destinations. From the canals of Venice to the soft white beaches of Thailand, explore the world like never before from the comfort of your own house while playing mahjong solitaire. It's time to relax and lose yourself on a soft white beach of Thailand, explore the Yucatan, enjoy a gondola ride in Venice or take an adventure in the Amazon through Mahjong Vacations. Choose from one of the dozens of exotic vacations with customized music, immersive visuals, unique tile sets and interesting bits of information that capture the culture and the essence of the location you are playing. Track the places you've visited on a real map. Utilize your Shuffle, Swap, Undo, Hint and Clarity boosts to help you throughout your mahjong journey. Upgrade your boosts to improve your scores and to help you through some of the more difficult challenges. Think your friends will miss you while you travel? Send them a postcard that you'll collect from each beautiful place you've played. You can even pinch and zoom in on the tiles to get a closer look! Think you've played Mahjong? You haven’t really experienced it until you've taken a Mahjong Vacation. You deserve a vacation. You really do! Visit us on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/MahjongVacations Talk to us via Twitter @MJVacations
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: LinkSame at none against Mahjong Vacations's 5. LinkSame also leads on ads (none vs shown). Mahjong Vacations's advantage is review sentiment (83% vs 57%) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 10 months). On price, rating and device support 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
Both are free to download. Mahjong Vacations sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. LinkSame asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.4 for LinkSame against 4.4 for Mahjong Vacations. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mahjong Vacations has 137 ratings behind it against 11, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 57% of LinkSame's written reviews are positive against 83% of Mahjong Vacations's.
LinkSame ships an update every 10 months, Mahjong Vacations every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | LinkSame | Mahjong Vacations |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (11 ratings) | 4.4 (137 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 57.1% of reviews | 82.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 11 | 137 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 10 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 16.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 103 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Matt Neuburg | Graveltree Productions, LLC |
Customer experience
LinkSame
Mahjong Vacations
Bugs and requests
LinkSame
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Mahjong Vacations
Reported bugs
3 issues- Game freezing after ads
- Progress not saving properly
- Incorrect scoring on some challenges
Requested features
4 requests- More vacation destinations
- Ability to reset progress
- Better save/load functionality
- Improved tutorial and instructions
In-app purchases
LinkSame
No in-app purchases
Mahjong Vacations
- Pack of 10,000 Vacation Coins$0.99
- Pack of 25,000 Vacation Coins$1.99
- Pack of 100,000 Vacation Coins$4.99
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- Pack of 300,000 Vacation Coins$9.99
- Pack of 750,000 Vacation Coins$19.99
Questions
Is LinkSame free?
Is Mahjong Vacations free?
Which has better reviews, LinkSame or Mahjong Vacations?
Do LinkSame or Mahjong Vacations have ads?
Which is updated more often, LinkSame or Mahjong Vacations?
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