I left Mahjong Soul for Riichi city mainly because its on steam

[Slime]

I now like RC more but going to grind both again.

Any Riichi City players here, which do you like more?

[Agent S]

I played both. Right now, I play mahjong soul in mobile either when office break or when in transport while I switched to Riichi city when in home and play on PC exclusively.

What I like about Riichi City is it has faster animation and maybe more friendly gacha(?). It's event mechanic also more unique.

While Mahjong Soul has more clean and simple UI.

Both also have their specific custom game.

What I noticed after playing both, Riichi City more similar to gacha games where you are rewarded when playing daily (daily login, daily quest, etc). But for mahjong soul, you got gift item and other material when playing more.

[LordMatsu]

RIichi is definitely more gacha-fied. There's packages and other way to spend money.

Mahjong Soul is really just Mahjong. No events give you jade.

I play both but I introduce friends to Soul more cause it's a lot less overwhelming.

[1.2M | Missingno.]

I play both, and I've been thinking of putting together a long and detailed writeup comparing the two. I guess I can give ya the abridged version of what would be a much longer essay sitting in my brain.


Riichi City looks a lot nicer in terms of presentation. I like that it shows the whole wall so that I never have to remember "wait, is x01 the last tile or x00?". Animated emotes are cool, as are unique Mangan animations for every character. QoL has gotten a few minor touchups as well. I also really appreciate that there's a setting for JP yaku names, something I have been begging MajSoul to implement. It's all just little details, but it adds up to an improved feel for me.

The first time I tried RC, I was actually a bit put off by how convoluted the gacha looked, it's giving you a lot more daily missions and whatnot. But that actually means it's giving you stuff! MJS is notoriously stingy, whereas RC hands out free rolls like candy to try because they are clearly desperate to beg players to come over. I still think gacha is an outright evil business model and will never put a cent into either game, and as I write this I realize maybe I should just go play Tenhou with the boomers, but at least RC is less bad than MJS in this regard.

The one big mechanical difference to be aware of is that RC enables Tsumogiri/Tedashi highlights in ranked. I've heard some opinions on this, it does make online mahjong further removed from how offline mahjong is played... but I personally think it's a positive. This information that you're supposed to have is so difficult to remember and use otherwise, I feel like I am able to make bigger brain reads now. And thinking about this information in RC has actually helped me to be more attentive to it on MJS and offline, it's a good training tool.

I also appreciate that RC's client natively supports Linux. I'm fine with running MJS in my browser, but I won't be using their new Windows client. I just like being supported.


However, the biggest problem I have with RC is how unbearably horny some of the costumes are. And if you're reading this thinking MJS is already bad... trust me, RC is far worse. I get it, this is what makes money, but... sigh. I've actually stopped streaming RC because I wouldn't be comfortable with some of the newest costumes they've added showing up on my channel, when I occasionally stream games I only do so on MJS.

Upper ranks are also kind of sad on RC. Depending on time of day, I've sometimes had to wait over 10 minutes to get into a Sun Room game. Whereas on MJS, Jade Room queues are always virtually instant. I have noticed that this has gotten better over time, RC is slowly growing and more players are reaching upper ranks, and hopefully that trend continues. But the other problem I have is that it feels like the caliber of play in Sun Room feels more erratic than Jade Room. RC makes it pretty hard to rank down, which means I am very frequently picking on three 4th Dan players who got promoted into Sun but clearly aren't ready to be here yet. Or sometimes I'll get matched into 9th Dan players who have to come back to Sun because I assume Galaxy Room queues probably just don't exist.


Overall, I do still like RC and maybe lean a little more towards it, but only a little. They're overall largely the same, really.

Go find a local club and play IRL

[Buff Orpington]

Imagine spending an entire paragraph complaining about 'horny' PG13 avatars in a gacha. You like eastern games, you get eastern sensibilities, ie hot dudes and gals. Maybe Tenhou is more suited for you?

Also, Riichi City is and will always be inferior to majsoul in every way that matters. More players, rank system doesn't hammer you for 3rd place. Just cleaner all around. I don't need a tile wall cluttering my screen because i can't remember that x01 means there is one tile left and x00 means they're all gone.

[russian_martian]

Originally posted by Buff Orpington:

Imagine spending an entire paragraph complaining about 'horny' PG13 avatars in a gacha. You like eastern games, you get eastern sensibilities, ie hot dudes and gals. Maybe Tenhou is more suited for you?

Also, Riichi City is and will always be inferior to majsoul in every way that matters. More players, rank system doesn't hammer you for 3rd place. Just cleaner all around. I don't need a tile wall cluttering my screen because i can't remember that x01 means there is one tile left and x00 means they're all gone.

then why do you need tiles at all? - just symbols would be much more clear for person like you: like S1,M2,P3 etc.
I want too MS to have wall presented on table

[1.2M | Missingno.]

Originally posted by Buff Orpington:

Imagine spending an entire paragraph complaining about 'horny' PG13 avatars in a gacha. You like eastern games, you get eastern sensibilities, ie hot dudes and gals. Maybe Tenhou is more suited for you?

I am aware that games that are in the business of selling you anime girls tend to chase after a certain aesthetic. Doesn't mean I have to like it. I'm just here for the tiles. And did you miss the part where I already beat you to making a Tenhou joke?

Originally posted by Buff Orpington:

rank system doesn't hammer you for 3rd place.

I actually think the extreme emphasis on last place avoidance is kind of an unhealthy part of MajSoul. If you've only ever played Soul you might be so used to it that you can't imagine mahjong without it, but this is not normal for IRL play, tournaments, etc. Everywhere else, symmetrical uma/oka is the norm.

Though as I briefly touched on, I don't think RC's ranked system is perfect. Not because it's symmetric, but because it's actually not quite symmetric. 4th Dan players in Sun Room gain a lot more for winning than they lose, so a lot of players get stuck there when they probably should be getting demoted. And sadly I don't think they can do much about this because if they were more aggressive about demotion, Sun queues would be much worse. Maybe it's something they could look at if/when the playerbase grows.

[Buff Orpington]

Originally posted by russian_martian:

Originally posted by Buff Orpington:

Imagine spending an entire paragraph complaining about 'horny' PG13 avatars in a gacha. You like eastern games, you get eastern sensibilities, ie hot dudes and gals. Maybe Tenhou is more suited for you?

Also, Riichi City is and will always be inferior to majsoul in every way that matters. More players, rank system doesn't hammer you for 3rd place. Just cleaner all around. I don't need a tile wall cluttering my screen because i can't remember that x01 means there is one tile left and x00 means they're all gone.

then why do you need tiles at all? - just symbols would be much more clear for person like you: like S1,M2,P3 etc.
I want too MS to have wall presented on table

Why? They're never turned over, and space is at a premium on mobile. Don't even know what you're talking about with tile symbols.

[Buff Orpington]

I actually think the extreme emphasis on last place avoidance is kind of an unhealthy part of MajSoul. If you've only ever played Soul you might be so used to it that you can't imagine mahjong without it, but this is not normal for IRL play, tournaments, etc. Everywhere else, symmetrical uma/oka is the norm.

Everything else is reckless and chaotic. Offense wins games, defense wins championships, etc..

I was shocked to see just how many basic aspects of the game are tweaked between organizations. No ura dora, whaat? ( https://ooyamaneko.net/en/mahjong/rratw/index.php )

[1.2M | Missingno.]

Are you saying that every tournament and league that uses symmetric uma/oka is reckless and chaotic then? You can see on that page that literally no organization skews it the way Soul does.

[HoneyDrake]

MS > RC

RC looks out of date. their gacha and skin system is tuned towards a certain audience I am not part of.
MS also has some horny skins, but it's not even remotely close to RC, and the only gacha is the character one, skins can be bought without any form of randomness.

It wouldn't take much for RC to be better. Cleaning up the UI, make the tiles/board look better, voila: main complaints disappear instantly.


If I took Mahjong more serious, wouldn't mind the outdated looks, RC would be above MS But it's not.

[1.2M | Missingno.]

Funny that you say that, because I think UI is the biggest area where RC has MS beat. I really like the look and feel, and it makes MS look a lot more dated in comparison.

[Halko]

Riichi City has a much better gacha system with much more currency handed out for free and has a better UI. Mahjong soul is better in player metrics like how many people are playing and how devoted they are to continue playing. Many times of the day on RC you will log in and try to find a match only to find literally 0 people in queue at that skill rank.

If both games were populated equally it would be an easy choice to play RC but that is not the case.

[Citizen Snips]

The UI, animations, and overall feel is better inRC to me. It makes MS look really dated.

[[PKKA]Tovarish ToNy]

MS has the better starter characters like how I enjoy using Miki Nikaidou more due to her emotes and that mature onee-san voice of her with some teasing. I just find the design of starters in RC obnoxious to the point that had to spend some to get a new character to replace starters. Besides I have more characters in MS than RC and also has better characters outside starters too.

Some of the better things RC have being the more advanced hand animations, full voice on yaku names instead of locked level 5 affection like MS and the match music.

Still I play both though but I find MS much harder to play because of the difference in players on the games with MS having more variety of players due to the larger population. I wish everything is better like get the best of both games.

[Citizen Snips]

I agree with a lot that has been said about both games. Honestly both are great mahjong clients. I also play both (they are free) so really people should just go back and forth as they please.