Mahjong Solitaire NETFLIX 4+

A nice relaxing game. You can find out your times in a different screen if you seek it out, but it’s not a necessity with each puzzle. You don’t feel pressured into tackling each level as fast as you can. No ads and the best part is you can install the app in any of your devices and your progress is saved onto the cloud. Specifically, progress is account-bound. With other mahjong tile match games, you need to watch ads to reshuffle, but it’s not necessary here. There’s no in-app purchases as well. You just get better scores with little to no undos or reschuffles. So glad Netflix released this game!

I really like this app — I love mahjong and I like that they keep the backgrounds and sounds calming. But I’d like an option to turn off the setting that highlights available tiles. I don’t want the help. I also don’t like that it forces me to hit the ‘hint’ button if I’m taking a long time. I answered a text message and was forced to clock ‘hint’ because the app noticed how long it had been me there’s no option to close the ‘hint’ window when it pops up.

The organization of menus is original, but minimalistic and lacking intuitive choices. The graphics are beautiful, as is the sound. But you can’t adjust either without going all the way out to the main menu. Matches create an animation where the pair meets up with a loud slap in the center of the screen. This blocks your view of the table as well as being loud. You can turn down the volume, but you can’t turn off the animation. Games are timed so having animations block your view of the table is annoying. If you can get over these frustrations, it’s a pretty game.