Enthusiast and gamesofter. Writer. Creator of @Kawaiikochans.
The Geass collab brought with it a very silly game mode where you can potentially score a 5x multiplier on your hand score. This turns something pretty basic into a game-ending one-shot kill.
Probably the best thing Mahjong Soul does is these silly non-competitive variants for events. I don't play it much because the grind is atrocious, but no question that Soul re-energized online mahjong by just taking oppressive ranked pressure off people and letting them just have fun playing mahjong, nya.
over the last day or so, this game Shouhai Mighty has been blowing up—it's based on a house rule from a certain venue in Nagoya, where everyone has 12-tile hands + an imaginary "mighty" tile that can substitute for pretty much anything, and the servers have been completely hammered since launch:
https://apps.apple.com/jp/app/id6446801091 🇯🇵 https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.Syouhaimaitii 🇯🇵
Oh, I've actually been really curious about this, and a little disappointed to find out it's app-only as opposed to a browser game. Multi-region stuff is hell on iOS. (never mind looks like it's just there on the US app store in JP?!)
on a cursory examination i'd like to report that this ruleset is the sickos.jpg of mahjong
This mode is mahjong with loaded guns and I absolutely adore it.
