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Mahjong Demon XL – Card Game Review
Mahjong Demon XL is a Card/Board game from NUTRACTOR, first launched in 25th September 2010.
It’s rated 17+ and currently has 36+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Mahjong Demon XL Stand Out
This is a Mahjong game of the Japanese style rule.
Mahjong is the game to finish four Melds and one Pairs.
Example: [1, 2, 3][6, 6, 6][6, 7, 8][N, N, N][4, 4]
However, there is a hand not approved when Chi, Pon, and Open Kan.
Please note whether there is a hand when you do 1 and 9 in Chi and Pon.
In the rule of the japanese mahjong, one or more hands are necessary.
The hand can be made by paying 1,000 points and doing Reach.
However, when Chi, Pon, and Open Kan are done, Reach cannot be done.
If it is a closed hand, high point will be obtained.
About Lost Hand. A hand that is Waiting, but cannot be won off someone else's discard due to the fact that the owner of the hand already threw a winning tile in their own discard.
Lost Hand if one in all winning tiles are here even if discard doesn't do the tile which it wants to do. But, self-draw is possible even with Lost Hand.
The knack is that Ron is never done by the other party.
Ron is never done with the tile that does Discard.
Please reason the Hand from other party's Discard and win.
This Card game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Mahjong Demon XL is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 6th October 2025
Recent improvements include:
- Security fixes.
Download & Availability
Mahjong Demon XL is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Mahjong Demon XL on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 / iPad Mini 3 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 4 / iPad Mini 4 (Cellular) or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Whilst not the greatest digital version of mahjong Ive seen, its far and away the best version using Japanese scoring in the American App Store. Not only that but its the simple things like actually using the correct Japanese terminology (pon, kan, chi, etc) instead of Chinese terms (pung, kong, chow, etc) which makes a real difference when playing. We would like to see an English version of the rules and scoring but if you already understand this is a good app for you.
Big problem. The game doesnt allow us to "pon" … The other 3 players go quickly and dont stop till our turn. No point in playing if can't pon or chi.
While we're far from a Mahjong expert, the AI sure seems competent and can actually score some pretty specialized hands. The interface is very intuitive and we love how it uses (or at least gives the option for) the Western tile set. It also keeps decent statistics. Some of the documentation suffers from a bit of poor translation but it's still fairly followable.
Last version incorrectly labeled North and East tiles. This update fixes that, but player to our right won't make available tiles that complete pongs. Maybe we're missing something, but this didn't happen before. Ruins the app. We hope this bug is fixed, like yesterday because we really loved this app before this update.
We recently learnt Riichi/Japanese mahjong because there aren't any decent Chinese or Taiwanese mahjong apps in the ipad or iphone app stores. So as a newcomer to Riichi, we can't judge accurately on the skill of the ai, but the interface of this app is well designed. We have both the Xl ipad and smaller iphone version and we prefer the ipad version as you can see your opponents' discards easily.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 6.12
- Size: 103.75 MB
- iOS: 13.0 or later
- Languages: EN, JA, ZH, ZH
- Content Advisory: Frequent/Intense Simulated Gambling
- Developer: NUTRACTOR
Last updated: 6th October 2025 | Genre: Card, Board | Developer: NUTRACTOR