Comparison

Mahjong Vacations vs Cheesy Madness

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

About

Cheesy Madness

Control a rat and fly as far as possible, collecting bonus snacks along the way. Enjoy casual gameplay or compete with others for the top spot.

Highlights
  • Fly as far as possible
  • Control a rat
  • Collect bonus snacks
  • Compete with other players
  • Fun and enjoyable gameplay
Features
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Try to fly as far as possible by controlling the rat. Bonus snacks wait for you at various stages of the game. Play for fun and enjoyment or compete with other players for the first place!

Screenshots

Mahjong Vacations4 screens
Cheesy Madness2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Cheesy Madness at none against Mahjong Vacations's 5. Cheesy Madness also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (100% vs 83%). Mahjong Vacations's advantage is rating (4.4 vs 4.0) and ratings volume (137 vs 4). On price 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Mahjong Vacations sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Cheesy Madness asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Mahjong Vacations holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mahjong Vacations has 137 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 83% of Mahjong Vacations's written reviews are positive against 100% of Cheesy Madness's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Mahjong Vacations versus Cheesy Madness: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMahjong VacationsCheesy Madness
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (137 ratings) — better4.0 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews82.9% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings137 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 2 months—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.66.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size103 MB129 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGraveltree Productions, LLCIgor Perepechenko

Customer experience

Mahjong Vacations

All ratings137 ratings
Positive83.2%
Neutral10.2%
Negative6.6%
Written reviews175 reviews
Positive82.9%
Neutral9.1%
Negative8.0%

Cheesy Madness

All ratings4 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and 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

Cheesy Madness

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Mahjong Vacations

One-time5
  • 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
None

Cheesy Madness

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Mahjong Vacations free?
Mahjong Vacations is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Cheesy Madness free?
Cheesy Madness is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Mahjong Vacations or Cheesy Madness?
Mahjong Vacations is rated higher. Mahjong Vacations averages 4.4 out of 5 from 137 ratings, while Cheesy Madness averages 4.0 from 4 ratings.
Do Mahjong Vacations or Cheesy Madness have ads?
Mahjong Vacations shows ads; Cheesy Madness does not.

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