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Video Mahjong Tutorial

Learn real mahjong from this fantasy arcade tutorial tape. Test your skills in the roguelike mode. Play by the rules, then break the rules.

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About the Game

Learn Mahjong From an Interactable Videotape

At first, this is a fantasy arcade mahjong tutorial.

The tape teaches you how to read tiles, form hands, understand waits, watch discards, and win your first match against a computer opponent.

But after the lesson ends, the tape keeps going.

Real Mahjong, Now Roguelike

You'll quickly transfer your mahjong skills into the roguelike challenge. It is still based on real mahjong rules, but now you can build your tile set, find synergies, win more, and win big.

Build Around Real Mahjong Hands

Every run starts from the language of mahjong: suits, honors, sequences, triplets, pairs, waits, calls, and scoring patterns.

Then the roguelike layer starts bending the lesson.

Add more of the tiles you want. Remove tiles that slow you down. Strengthen certain suits, boost honor tiles, reward triplets, support pairs, or build toward rare patterns. A small change to your inventory can turn a normal hand into the start of something much bigger.

Rewind the Tape

When a round goes wrong, rewind the tape and try another take.

Maybe your opponent wins before you. Maybe your hand wins, but not by enough. Maybe you can already clear the round, but you saw a better hand hiding a few turns back.

Rewinding lets you return to an earlier point in the recording, use what you learned, and play the hand differently. It is not only a safety net. It is part of how you build bigger wins.

Find Synergies in the Static

Between matches, choose upgrades that change how your run develops.

  • Add or remove tiles from your set

  • Boost specific patterns

  • Pick Sticker items that reward your preferred style of play

  • Use arcade-style Command items to change the game

  • Discover powerful modchips to break the rules

A Tutorial With Something Underneath

This tape looks like a bright arcade mahjong tutorial, but the recording seems to have something underneath.

Keep playing.

Keep rewinding.

Key Features

  • Learn real mahjong through an interactive tutorial structure

  • Play mahjong hands against a computer opponent running an advanced mahjong algorithm

  • Turn mahjong knowledge into roguelike builds and synergies

  • Rewind the tape to replay key moments and find better takes

  • Discover secrets inside a strange arcade videotape