Mahjong Adventure: World Quest

Monstera Games frames Mahjong Adventure: World Quest as a journey rather than a level select. You are a traveller working your way across the world, and the levels are the stops along the route instead of entries in a list. If the layout is new, the beginner rules page explains it.

What the game actually asks for is speed. How quickly you can match the tiles is the question the studio puts to you, and the stops are billed as intriguing and challenging in equal measure. Completing the quest is what shows you the wonders waiting at the end of the route, which gives the sequence a finish line that most tile boards do without. Also under this heading: the Ancient Rome layout.

The window is 960 by 540, wider and shallower than the square boards elsewhere on this hub, which suits a layout spread across a scene rather than packed into a compact stack. Tiles answer to a mouse or a tap, and progress is counted stop by stop. Holiday was filed here for the same reason.

1. Begin the quest at the first stop on the world route.
2. Match two identical tiles to remove them from the layout.
3. Clear the stop to unlock the next destination on the journey.
4. Keep the pace brisk, since matching speed is what the game measures.

• Scan the width — the 960 by 540 frame spreads tiles sideways, so pairs sit further apart than on a square board.
• Move on quickly — Monstera Games sets the challenge as how fast you match, not how neatly.
• Treat stops as separate — each destination is its own layout, so a bad start costs one stop rather than the quest.
• Play it through — the wonders at the end only appear once the whole route is finished.