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| Published | Kind | Announcement | Build |
|---|---|---|---|
| Game update | 2026/07/27 Added Simplified Chinese support. Fixed text formatting issues in Traditional Chinese. Rebalanced the score targets: most of them are higher, particularly in earlier matches. Increased the repeat difficulty scaling. Nerfed the "no tsumo" boss joker to 8 turns from 10. Added single fingers back to the choice pool (as well as two fingers). Fixed suuankou being allowed with the ronned tile as one… | — | |
| Game update | 2026/07/18-1 Lots of changes this time! Much improved controller support, including different icons per controller (I have only tested this with a dualsense and steam deck). Traditional Chinese translation (simplified coming soon!). Using pacts now shows an animation of the seal on them instead of a pentagram. Slight tutorial improvements. You can select a different texture set for tiles - it has numbers on… | — | |
| Game update | 2026/07/03-1 Fixed a missing boss joker reference Added jokers to the deck view (and you can now view it on the game end screen!) Made it much more obvious that the numbers on the table are your total joker count Fixed a bug where you could select extra tiles from the box and they would float in the air Nuki replacement draws now give rinshan Fixed the ordering of retrigger popups during scoring | — | |
| Game update | 2026/06/28-1 Added three new jokers: - Purple Shirt, which gives X han depending on how few remaining tiles there are for your wait - Tacos, which gives fu for east tiles (and twice as much in east rounds) - Debt Note, which allows you to go into debt Fixed a bug where jokers with persistent effects weren't being cleaned up after selling them Fixed Impossibility so that it now applies the bonus at a sensibl… | — | |
| Game update | 2026/06/27 Fixed more softlocks with the deck view | — | |
| Game update | 2026/06/23-1 Fixed some more issues with black screens caused by visiting the deck view Also, for anyone that does run into that in future: the game autosaves regularly, so you can exit to the main menu and resume closet to where you were. Or if the menu for some reason isn't coming up, you can press the delete key to get there instantly. | — | |
| Game update | 2026/06/22-1 Fixed an issue where clicking on a called tile that was previously in the hand (e.g. after a pon) would prevent further progress. | — | |
| Game update | 2026/06/21-1 Fixed a crash during a kan scenario | — | |
| Game update | 2026/06/20-2 Money related joker triggers now happen at the correct time Fix some issues relating to kan tile selection | — | |
| Game update | 2026/06/20 Fixed a memory leak Dolly should now copy all tile attributes Piggy Bank now gains £1 every time you gain money You can't fish for better tiles by cancelling a pact and re-using it anymore | — | |
| Game update | 2026/06/18 Quality of life update You can now cancel calls and items that require you to select tiles You can now sort the drawn tile into the hand manually (the button lights up every time now) Fixed a bug with deselected tiles when multi selecting tiles for nuki Buffed the saw, increased the health restored by fingers Fixed several yaku that weren't showing up Pinfu now correctly supports a pair of non-yakuhai winds Fixed an… | — | |
| Game update | 2026/06/17 You can now mash the ron/tsumo button immediately Fixed several bugs with the deck view | — | |
| Game update | 2026/06/15-1 Fix double pressing of buttons at max game speed | — | |
| Game update | 2026/06/14-2 Made the tsumo/ron camera shift less disconcerting Increased the target score for the orphaned deck and increased luck Reworked the blackjack joker Several other balance changes Possibly fixed a bug with the deck view softlocking if you spam it | — | |
| Game update | 2026/06/14 Fixed missing text after unlocking something at the end of a run. | — | |
| Game update | 2026/06/13 Made the pin suit colour more distinctive in tooltips Improved the camera for the deck view (now the deck stats don't overlap everything) Fixed pinned tooltips getting stuck Improved rank labels Fixed some issues with hand decomposition and several yaku If you have a million different yaku, the yaku preview doesn't continue off the edge of the screen now | — | |
| Game update | 2026/06/11 Nerfed the orphaned deck Made it a bit more obvious that you can sell items in the shop (including consumables) Made rank labels stand out less so you can't read the enemy hand Made it more obvious that you have the ability to ron or tsumo | — | |
| Game update | Balance update Nerfed the "you can't tsumo" boss joker - you now have a few more turns to win Buffed the Vassago and Agares pacts - the tiles added will always be upgraded now | — | |
| Game update | 2026/06/10-1 Adds a toggle for localised yaku names in English (enabled by default) Probably fixes an issue where the enemy could not form a hand and ended up using duplicate tiles from the wall instead. | — | |
| Game update | Bugfixes Fixed a bug with viewing the deck while selecting tiles for a call Possibly fixed a crash on returning to the main menu | — | |
| Game update | 2026/06/09 Fix little four winds Mention unlocks after winning a run | — | |
| Game update | Fix tutorial fast track Fix tutorial fast track | — | |
| Game update | 2026/06/08 Enabled the WIP tutorial Japanese and Italian language support | — | |
| Game update | 2026/06/03 Enable tutorial (WIP, not finished yet). | — | |
| Game update | 2026/05/30 Tile case tooltips Quips Bugfixes | — | |
| Game update | Japanese and Italian language support Japanese language support Italian language support Yaku preview and improved wait preview Less crazy tooltip positioning | — | |
| Game update | 2026/05/13 View yaku on the pause menu Observe the placeholder jokers with missing visual effects Retrigger stickers now apply to joker effcts too instead of just dora | — |
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