About This Demo

Welcome to Chinese Board & Card Games Museum

Step back with us into the streets and courtyards of 1980s and 1990s China, where regional card and mahjong tables from across the country are gathered into one playable museum.
Across China, the same deck of cards or set of mahjong tiles takes on different rules, names, and rhythms from one city to the next. Here, clear rulesets, cultural exhibits, and smooth tabletop matches live side by side. There is no required reading before you play—feel free to look around, sit down to a game you grew up with, or read an exhibit label and discover a game from another region.

Every way to play has a hometown

Inside the museum, we have recreated the local setting where each game grew up. Pull up a chair at any table, and you step right into the daily life of that city:
Head to a Wuhan alley on a summer night to play Dou Di Zhu in the evening breeze;
Visit a canal-side home in Huai'an for a partnership round of Guandan;
Climb to an autumn rooftop in Changsha and race to empty your hand in Pao De Kuai;
Step inside a Xiaogan main hall in winter to play Ka Wu Xing behind closed doors;
Sit down in an early-spring Chengdu teahouse to play Sichuan Mahjong to the last tile;
Or stay right by the Eight-Immortals table in the center of our museum hall for a game of Sheng Ji, played all across China.

The lighting in these old streets follows your computer’s clock—lamps come on at dusk, and a midnight game means midnight outside the window too. Clear skies, rain, snow, or fog: you choose. Take a breather and the camera wanders the city for you. Prefer to focus purely on the cards? Switch to Simple Mode anytime to skip the 3D scenes and go straight to the table.

Misplayed? Play it again

Every move against the AI is recorded. Step back to any move, play it differently, and the game branches from there. The original line is kept, so you can switch back and compare at any time. Available in all six games. Branching sessions are for practice and do not count toward your match record.

A quiet table

We want to give you a quiet place to play. No ads, no top-ups, nothing nudging you along. Guandan and Sheng Ji also include guided lessons, and Sheng Ji comes with a built-in card tracker.

About this demo

The Demo is free, with no limit on matches or play time. Across all six games, you can play against the AI, explore lineage trees and rulesets, and open Steam friend rooms (in testing). If you enjoy the table, adding the full game to your wishlist is the best way to support the museum.

Available on Windows with mouse and keyboard controls. No controller support yet. Switch between Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, and English in the game without restarting your match. Traditional Chinese uses Chinese audio.