Microsoft Mahjong

Mahjong is an ancient Chinese game that's quite popular these days among those who look for a quick logic game to play in their spare time.

Microsoft Mahjong brings all the excitement of the classic matching game to your Windows 8 powered PC by offering multiple game modes and beautifully drawn themes.

Speaking of game modes, Microsoft Mahjong comes with four difficulty settings that range from Easy to Expert, each featuring progressively harder to solve Mahjong puzzles of all shapes and sizes.

To make it a bit of a challenge, the game makes only the first puzzle of each category available, allowing you to unlock the others with each puzzle you manage to complete.

Besides the multitude of Mahjong puzzles to solve, Microsoft Mahjong offers a few cool new gameplay modes as daily challenges. Completing these challenges not only will award you golden coins, but will also give you the chance to win monthly badges.

What's different in this Mahjong puzzles you may ask? Well, in some of the puzzles you will have to find and match golden tiles, match lighting tile pairs before their value reaches zero or reach a certain score within a given time limit.

These challenges are extremely fun and add an extra layer to the already addictive gameplay making you come back each day to complete them and work your way up to the golden monthly badge.

In addition to that, the game also features various achievements that can be earned during your playthrough and showcased on your Xbox profile to have something to brag about.

Microsoft Mahjong might not reinvent the wheel when it comes to this ancient game but, the title manages to bring a few more than welcomed variations that spice up gameplay and motivate players to come back to play it on a daily basis.