Games like American Mahjong
If American Mahjong is your kind of game, the closest matches are Agari — Riichi Mahjong, Mahjong Encyclopedia and Mahjong Nook — picked from the ranked list below. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About American Mahjong: Your place at the mahjong table. Play American mahjong with friends through Steam, practice against bots, or share a screen. Learn step by step, create custom cards, and settle into a welcoming room with detailed tiles and a table you can make your own.
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Steam players who put hours into American Mahjong also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Agari — Riichi Mahjong
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Top pick for American Mahjong fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with American Mahjong.
Authentic Riichi Mahjong. No gacha. No fan service. No login walls. No in-game payments. Buy it once, play it anywhere. Full ruleset, 3D table, private online multiplayer, Japanese voice acting, and a daily challenge mode.
Mahjong Encyclopedia
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Second-strongest match for American Mahjong fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with American Mahjong.
Mahjong Encyclopedia is a free cross-platform 3D online mahjong game supporting many rule variants, It features lightweight searchable match replays, support Hans, Hant, En, and cross-play on Windows, iOS and Android. Sololy and Independently developed, more rules will be added based on feedback.
Mahjong Nook
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Third-strongest match for American Mahjong fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with American Mahjong.
Mahjong Nook is a cozy 3D mahjong game, and yes, it's the real one. Not the matching puzzle. Draw, discard, and fight for the winning hand across authentic Asian rulesets solo or online. Time to learn and outplay your friends.
17 Steps
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Ranked #4 for American Mahjong fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with American Mahjong.
17 Steps is a fast-paced mahjong strategy duel inspired by the Japanese variant “Seventeen Steps.” Choose a ready hand, then battle through 17 discards. No drawing, no chi, pon, kan, or tsumo — only ron. Read your opponent, hide your waits, lock away dangerous tiles, and survive a tense mind game!
Just Chess
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Ranked #5 for American Mahjong fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with American Mahjong.
Enjoy a pure, distraction-free chess experience with Just Chess! Includes a built-in engine, UCI support and UCI engine profiles, and a Puzzle Arena with 4M+ puzzles. Lichess integration lets you challenge players and watch live tournament broadcasts.
中国棋牌博物馆
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Ranked #6 for American Mahjong fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with American Mahjong.
Chinese Board Game Museum is a PC collection of traditional Chinese board and card games. Play shedding, trick-taking, Mahjong, and regional games with verified rules, Chinese-inspired art, original music, adjustable AI, Steam online play, and buy-once updates.
Crown Cribbage
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Ranked #7 for American Mahjong fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with American Mahjong.
The cribbage night you remember. Two, three and four-hand play: online at tables, passed around one screen at home, or against distinct opponents who never peek at your cards. Watch them play each other while you chat, or train in The Study — your first fifteen to muggins.
Hanafuda
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Ranked #8 for American Mahjong fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with American Mahjong.
Discover the traditional Japanese 🎴Hanafuda (花札 - Flower Cards) games, brought to life as a beautiful, modern 3D tabletop game. Match cards to create pairs, complete a set and collect points, or call Koi-Koi to risk it all for more. Play against the computer, or other players online.
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Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
Travellin Cats in Paris
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with American Mahjong.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
Virtual Cottage
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with American Mahjong.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
Coloring Pixels
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with American Mahjong.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
The Lab
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
An Arcade Full of Cats
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with American Mahjong.
Journey through gaming history's time and space, while searching for adorable feline companions in 'An Arcade Full of Cats,' the ultimate pet'em up hidden object game.
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Frequently asked about American Mahjong
- Does American Mahjong have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — American Mahjong supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, PvP).
- What games are most similar to American Mahjong?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside American Mahjong are Agari — Riichi Mahjong, Mahjong Encyclopedia, Mahjong Nook.
- Who developed American Mahjong?
- American Mahjong was developed by Garner Solutions.
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