Showered with so many (similarly played out) Mahjong titles to play nowadays, the usual sets of activities are handed down to the players to share their typical challenge of pairing the tiles and obtaining key tiles within a given cluster of them.

Now, we have been introduced with the competitive varieties of them – shifting the very challenge that we have been accustomed with, in these types of games. The simple tile-pairing game of Mahjong will never be the same again – taking a great following among the lot of casual gamers.

As people got hooked over online games that are easily available and accessible, a burst of titles exploded among game creators – sharing the handful of casual online game titles that we enjoy today. Including which, we have numerous Mahjong titles to play with. With these, several improvements and tweaks underwent a constant pace among the released titles to reel in interest among casual gamers, including one that seemed to have brought great interest from the avid and seasoned players of the game – Competitive Mahjong.

Competitive Mahjong games now not only endows you with a great brain stimulant to get you racked up with a surmounting clusters of tiles to fix, but also tasks you to beat a live contender, trying to solve exactly the same given challenge. Suddenly, the game gets a bit more zested with - racking players against each other in battle for out-performing the other and progress through the game.

In these types of Mahjong games, players usually get to be rewarded with a special token every time he/she wins a tourney. With these tokens or credits, they get to purchase either boosters to put into play and get them winning a game in a breeze, or otherwise purchase avatar customization perks – to show off their relative achievement/s within the game. Putting it all in contrast, it is a relative minute tweak in its concept, but altogether re-invents the game with great new motivation for even the seasoned players to play.

During the lot of playing similar games, a usual main hub of the pertaining motif or environment is given to get you entering the different levels of tourneys in the game. Usually, as you climb up the ladder of tourneys, you are pitted against more advanced players (a whole lot harder to beat ones), as well as entitled to bet on higher stakes match-ups. The game usually requires entry fee in the tourneys – which acts more like bet money for the participating individuals, and the one who gets to win the game, gets to take the sum of bet credits.

The core aim in these games is to try and earn as much credits as you play lower ranking tourneys for you to even get a chance to win in the high stakes tourneys with the use of purchased and collected boosters. Other than that, bragging rights you earn from customizing an embodiment of achievements in the game (which is usually your customized avatar) could be shown off to other players.

This is somehow the most promising feature in competitive types of games too. Getting to showcase one’s capacity among the active participants of the game - definitely draws in a new form of reward (not usually endowed in these types of games).

As it takes great efforts to gain the needed resources to put up with higher stakes matches, you get to experience the climax of the game and somehow secure you among the top entries in the leaderboard or further invest in more items to accessorize and brag your avatar with. This is after all, the highlight of any competitive game – to outshine the competition.