Last updated on December 12th, 2025 at 02:49 am
Mahjong by Microsoft – Casual Game Review
Mahjong by Microsoft is a Casual/Puzzle game from Microsoft Corporation, first launched in 12th January 2021.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 2,327+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Mahjong by Microsoft Stand Out
Escape in the tranquil beauty of Mahjong by Microsoft where hundreds of tile matching puzzles are ready to solve in the popular game of strategy, memory, and skill. Play among gorgeous backgrounds, relaxing sounds, and unique themes to match any mood.
Relax as you earn points by completing mahjong puzzles at your own pace. Use HINTS or SHUFFLE tiles for ease of play. Earn extra points when you solve puzzles without HELP, or match the same suit of mahjong tiles in a row to create a chain bonus. Choose a higher LEVEL of DIFFICULTY to earn even more points! Unlock NEW mahjong tile sets & backgrounds as you level up. Customize your board or bookmark your FAVORITES to play again and again.
Five (5) DAILY CHALLENGES available for you to complete each day. Achieve Bronze, Silver, Gold, Diamond, or a Perfect Badge for completing ALL challenges EVERY DAY of the month! Choose from Classic Challenges, Golden Tiles, Lightning Tiles, Match Attack, or Score Attack. For even MORE excitement, turn on the timer to challenge your speed, or find Quick Play matches.
No matter how you play, enjoy a peaceful journey in Mahjong by Microsoft.
• Hundreds of Puzzles to Solve
• 5 Unique Daily Challenges Every Day
• Earn Points & Collect Achievements
• Enjoy ENDLESS FUN!
• New Tile Sets & Backgrounds
• Bookmark Favorite Puzzles to Play Again
• Customize Your Game Board
• Train Your Brain with Tile-Matching Fun
• Relax among Tranquil Scenes & Soothing Sounds
Sign-in with a Microsoft Account to save your progress, collect achievements, and play across multiple mobile devices.
Upgrade to Premium on iPhone and iPad.
You can purchase the Microsoft Mahjong Premium Subscription for $1.99 per Month or $9.99 per Year. Benefits that come with a Premium Subscription include:
• Removing advertisements from your game
• Play Daily Challenges from previous months
NOTE: Premium Subscription grants premium experience on mobile only. It is non-transferrable to other platforms.
Payment will be charged to your iTunes Account on confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews monthly or annually depending on the subscription type purchased. Payment will be charged to your iTunes Account within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period ($1.99 monthly, or $9.99 annually, depending on the subscription type purchased). You can turn off your auto-renewal by going to your Account Settings after purchase. If auto-renewal is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period, you will not be charged for the next period. All cancellations will take effect at the end of the current period.
For more information visit: https://aka.ms/MicrosoftMahjong_support
© Microsoft 2025. All Rights Reserved. Microsoft, Microsoft Casual Games, the product logos and Mahjong, and the Mahjong logos are trademarks of the Microsoft group of companies. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Acceptance of Microsoft Services Agreement and Privacy Statement are required to play. (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/servicesagreement, https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/privacy/privacystatement) Microsoft account registration required for cross-platform play. Game offers in-app purchases. Persistent internet connection required. Features, online services and system requirements may vary by country and are subject to change or retirement over time.
This Casual game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Mahjong by Microsoft is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 19th November 2025
Recent improvements include:
Bug fixes and performance improvements.
Download & Availability
Mahjong by Microsoft is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Mahjong by Microsoft on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
It's a relaxing mind game that excersice every single neuron in your brain great to play after yoga.
Im a scuba diver, so we enjoy the underwater creatures tile set. Game plays very well. It could use statistics/best scores by each puzzle, rather than the entire game.
We like the game and usually play the challenges while we have our coffee but since the 1st of November the games wipes out the challenges we have completed and then we have to do them all over only to have them zeroed out again.
We have been playing the challenge game every morning for years. Lately there has been an ad in the upper left corner that blocks some of the tiles! Its there the whole game! Im disappointed that you have started this practice! It is very distracting and we cant play . We hope you change this! Thank you Kath.
Im on Step 45 in the first pkg. We are new at the game and our progress beyond that step isnt saved. Ive completed up to Step 50 several times but when we get out and start back next day or a few hours later, Im only completed through Step 45. Game is fun but definitely buggy. Silly us. We expected better from Microsoft.
Hard to play with ads over the playing field, cant even make them go away. Basically they making you pay.
Could you please fix the ad? Its blocking the upper right corner and we cant play the game on our phone. This bug started about a week ago.
Deleted as ad jamming got worse over time, you had to wait for the full page ones to go to x to close. After doing about 300 of the puzzles it started carrying over ads that partially blocked and they would only randomly flash off for a bit and reappear. Too bad, game looked beautiful but was too annoying to demean ourselves with further play.
The most recent update leaves one unable to play with the ads expanding to cover top left of board. Fix or it will be deleted, unacceptable.
We have been loving this game with its occasional ads. As of yesterday we have a huge ad overlaying the tiles in the top left corner which prevents us from playing. One goes away and another pops up in its place. So disappointing.
Fun, creative, stylish, and engaging puzzles ranging in difficulty that really keep us coming back every day even multiple times a day. We think it keeps our brain strong.
Very good game. Plz enhance the bursting stars at the end. Our brain loves them.
Wonderful game, always changing and keeps us interested. Large variety of objects and characters on the cards is fun.
We were afraid the ads on this game would take us out of the middle of the match and force us to watch 2 mins but it had a constant ad playing while in match as to not disturb your match! Also a lot of free content and many skins for the card faces.
We absolutely love this game but the number of ads are a killer.
Just like mom use to play it on our iPhone and on our iPad.
All the features you could want plus beautiful backgrounds that you can customize.
Our favorite game to play. Thank you.
We love this game. We like that we are able to choose what level we want to play. Some days easy some days medium. Also like too be able to choose tile design. This game is a keeper.
The game was fun and entertaining but the only thing is that Majong was missed spelled.
Simple classic not overwhelming.
Finally Mahjong the game, not trying to get ride of persistent ADs.
It's really relaxing and really overall fun game to play when Im bored it could be there could be some improvement with more art and pieces but its all just a really good game we would think other people like it also.
Would be five but the ads are a pain in the butt.
You have to be signed in online to play this game, unlike some of the other MS casual games. We are on dial up so cant play this. Also dont want to have to sign in for this. We go to the library to use WiFi to download stuff. ALSO, USED TO RUN ON IPAS OS 12.5 AFTER LAST UPDATE WONT RUN ANYMORE! WHAT AM we SUPPOSED TO RUN ON OLD iPads.
We paid a yearly subscription for this and Im getting ads constantly. Yes, we signed in. No, it didnt make a difference.
1) Have to exit app to close an unfinished game. 2) Instead of the Keep Playing option when there are no more moves, wouldnt Replay Game (Restart Game,) make more sense.
We love the game but we finished the 9 boards (900 games) in classic mahjong and discovered that there are no more boards to play! The game ends.
We cant get the log in to work. You need to fix it other wise it is a great game. We want to be able to log in to Xbox.
But should be in landscape mode. Looks squeezed up on iPad. Landscape would open it up more.
We've had an annual subscription to this app for several years. Now it's started showing ads across the top of the screen. We're not paying a subscription fee if we're going to get ads anyway. Time to cancel.
There is a recent problem with this app in which the daily challenges are checked off even when you havent completed them yet. We LOVE this game otherwise but this is annoying.
Bummer. Im not paying extra to remove ads from this game. We already pay for game pass. Cant see extra money for one game. Now we remember why deleted the app. Back to using the actual game.
The game overall is good. Game play needs improvement. Ive played and won a dozen times but as soon as we win and click next puzzle it says no more moves and we have to repeat it or shuffle. Quite often clicking on a matching tile does not doesnt work. At least 10-12 times Ive repeatedly click same thing happens again and again. The same match for it to work.
We started playing the game and cleared 11 levels. But when we reach Level 12, the game always crashes and we cant do anything to delete it. So we started to become mad. And we closed the game multiple times and it keeps crashing.
The game itself is fine. Our issue is with iPad apps that are NOT really iPad-ready. An ad pops up, the screen switches to Portrait, then wont reset back to Landscape.
We actually love this game however, we pay for a yearly premium subscription which does not include the annoying ads. Our subscription just renewed and now we are being plagued by ads. And there isnt any way to contact support on the app. This is annoying to the point that if it continues, we will not be subscribing anymore. We pay for premium to get rid of the ads.
Deleted the app because we cannot play in landscape mode. We are bedridden and unable to play games in portrait mode on iPad.
We downloaded many mahjong games and this one is the best. Variety of skill set and interesting boards. However, there should be an option to remove ads. Im willing to pay, please provide the option. The ads are distracting and extremely annoying.
We have played this game on our PC for years and really like it. We have recently started playing on our phone and we Pad, How do get all of them sync together. We travel a lot and it is a pain to take our PC , when we can play it on our IPad. We are referring to the daily challenges. We have had a perfect end of the month score for a long time and we hate not finishing a month because am traveling. We do use our user name from thePC on all of our devices.
Luv it old classic game ,calming ,relaxing, and mind vigorating Awakes the mind increases eye and hand coordination.
Anyone who remembers the Microsoft entertainment pack the windows 3.11 days will get a kick out of the variety of games on offer here. The only suggestion is we wish they would add ski Free.
Our mind requires stimulation or boredom sets in. We find that this game helps us very much remedy this! We have found ourselves playing this game on a rainy day and realizing not only one but two hours have passed. It also makes you feel accomplished because it allows you to pass to different levels.
It keeps telling us that we cant play because Im not connected to the internet which l am and we tried to delete the app and reinstall it to no avail, we do enjoy the app so its been disappointing that we havent been able to play the last few days.
The travel town ads start counting down at about 9999! Nothing allows us back in the game unless we shut our phone off. Thought it was a fluke the first time, but its done this two to three times a day for the past week. Every time this ad pops up, in fact.
We DO NOT like all the annoying ADS.
There is no way to close the add and we have to turn our phone off to get rid of it. Get rid of this ad.
8&9 tile sets part way through 9 the puzzles Were left unfinished and untested apparently, With half the 50+ tiles boxes and half swords And running out of matches with 3 sorts There are much better programmed Mahjong Apps in store.
Ive been playing for months with no problem. Now, yesterday, it doesnt run. We restarted our iPad, redownloaded the app multiple times. If we start from a new download, it starts. If we try to start the app, it freezes on the opening screen. Very disappointing.
We do like it but one problem we have is that we want the old themes cuz we loved the cosmos one but this newer versions we dont have that and our pc is a 8.1 so we cant make a micrsoft account cuz its to old. Pls bring back the old themes.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 4.8.1
- Size: 119.64 MB
- iOS: 15.0 or later
- Languages: DA, NL, EN, FI, FR, DE, IT, JA, NB, PL, PT, RU, ZH, ES, SV
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Microsoft Corporation
Last updated: 19th November 2025 | Genre: Casual, Puzzle | Developer: Microsoft Corporation