Mahjong is one of those games that I always come back to, like poker or Klondike solitaire. It's casual, yet still challenging. However, the challenge has to be built within the rules of the game, not artificially added as is the case with Pretty Girls Mahjong Solitaire (and its sequel, "Delicious! Pretty Girls Mahjong Solitaire"). As with many solitaire mahjong games, tiles can and will appear directly on top of each other, making a board impossible to complete. This would be fine, were there options available to shuffle the remaining tiles and/or undo moves. Unfortunately, PGMS doesn't offer those, so be prepared to play the same boards over. And over. Another big problem is that tiles that are "trapped" vertically somehow are removable (they shouldn't be), while tiles that are trapped horizontally work according to the game's rules of being inaccessible. It's all a bit of a shame, because mahjong otherwise works really well in the standard Pretty Girls environment of unlockable girls/levels. The usual lack of options are here (for example, windowed vs fullscreen), along with simplistic, but servicable, music and sounds (although the moans that occur when you make a move are just silly). For my money, the benchmark for Mahjong games is still Cyna Games' Kyodai - a game which is 20 (!) years old, but still plays beautifully, even on Windows 10. As for PGMS, your time invested is not worth the frustration you'll experience.

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Mahjong is one of those games that I always come back to, like poker or Klondike solitaire. It's casual, yet still challenging. However, the challenge has to be built within the rules of the game, not artificially added as is the case with Pretty Girls Mahjong Solitaire (and its sequel, "Delicious! Pretty Girls Mahjong Solitaire"). As with many solitaire mahjong games, tiles can and will appear directly on top of each other, making a board impossible to complete. This would be fine, were there options available to shuffle the remaining tiles and/or undo moves. Unfortunately, PGMS doesn't offer those, so be prepared to play the same boards over. And over. Another big problem is that tiles that are "trapped" vertically somehow are removable (they shouldn't be), while tiles that are trapped horizontally work according to the game's rules of being inaccessible. It's all a bit of a shame, because mahjong otherwise works really well in the standard Pretty Girls environment of unlockable girls/levels. The usual lack of options are here (for example, windowed vs fullscreen), along with simplistic, but servicable, music and sounds (although the moans that occur when you make a move are just silly). For my money, the benchmark for Mahjong games is still Cyna Games' Kyodai - a game which is 20 (!) years old, but still plays beautifully, even on Windows 10. As for PGMS, your time invested is not worth the frustration you'll experience. [quote]For more puzzle game reviews, news and everything puzzle-related, follow [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/25928931-Puzzle-Lovers/]Puzzle Lovers[/url] and check out our [url=http://steamcommunity.com/groups/puzzlelovers]Steam Group[/url].