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Alice: Madness Returns is a third-person, single-player, action adventure platformer. Visit the grim reality of Victorian London and travel to the beautiful yet ghastly Wonderland to uncover the root of Alice's madness.
Alice: Madness Returns is a horror, female protagonist and dark fantasy game
developed by Spicy Horse Games
and published by Electronic Arts.
Released on June 17th 2011 is available only on Windows.
It has received 24,087 reviews of which 21,729 were positive and 2,358 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.8 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 9.99€ on Steam.
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- OS *: Windows 7 SP1, Windows Vista with SP2, Windows XP with SP3
- Processor: Intel Core2 Duo (or equivalent) running at 1.60GHz or greater; AMD Athlon X2 (or equivalent) running at 1.60GHz or greater
- Memory: 2048MB or greater
- Hard Disk Space: 8.5 GB
- Video Card: *NVIDIA GeForce 7600 256MB or ATI Radeon X1650 256MB or greater
- Sound: DirectX 9.0c compatible
- DirectX®: 9.0c
- *NVIDIA GeForce 8400, 9400, 210; ATI Radeon HD 2400, HD 3200, HD 4300 as well as integrated versions of supported chipsets are below minimum system requirements
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Seeing this blow up on Twitter every few months as "dark goth aesthetic inspo" makes me lose my mind. People post screencaps of the London dress and treat the game like a dark-fairytale moodboard, completely missing the fact that Wonderland isn't just an edgy playground; It’s the shattered psyche of a severely traumatized girl trying to process grief, institutional abuse, and overwhelming isolation. American McGee didn't just design a creepy platformer; he poured the pain of his own turbulent, traumatic childhood straight into Alice's mental decay. The grotesque distortion of each domain isn't random shock value...it's a coping mechanism for an orphaned girl whose reality was violently torn away from her. Underneath the psychological weight, it remains one of the most uniquely creative action-platformers of its generation. Swapping between the Vorpal Blade, Pepper Grinder, and Hobby Horse in floaty, precise aerial combat still feels fantastic, and the art direction holds up better than 90% of modern Unreal Engine releases. (Wanted:Dead... looking at you) EA sitting on this IP like a petulant dragon, refusing to greenlight Alice: Asylum, refusing to sell or license the rights, and essentially forcing American McGee out of game dev altogether is nothing short of pure corporate malpractice. An unforgettable masterpiece that deserves far more than being reduced to aesthetic screenshots. May Mercy Johnson Covington find eternal peace. 9.5/10
it's safe to say that this game is really relevant now, maybe more than ever before. ㅤThe world is increasingly becoming more hostile, and people are getting jaded from all of it. Multiple wars happening, the dooming rise of AI over society, instability of housing prices and jobs. The uncertainty of the future is dreadful, and all this chaos seeps into our lives, changing how we react to the world, how we think about life, and how our mind processes it. ㅤSo It's easy to simpatize with Alice, her world's dull, ugly, cruel. And her only shelter is inside her head. But the time in the asylum has severally changed her mind, and the city's environment only worsens it. She doesn't have control of anything, and the only way her mind deals with struggles, is to fall back to wonderland. To the only place she can be herself, the only place she has control over something. ㅤI wouldn't say everyone has a "wonderland" in their heads, but we all have developed some way of coping with the world, and I think most people feel that they can only be themselfs through the Internet; be it if they're scared of what close relatives would think of them, or that they wished to live in another city/country, or that the person feels distant from everyone else around them. But much like this Alice's wonderland, the Internet is not a safe place, never has been, probably never will be. And sooner or later, these 2 lives will clash. ㅤThe character of Alice has aged really well, she doesn't try to be a cool progatonist, neither is she evil or crazy because of her condition, she's just a unfortunate person trapped inside her mind's maze. And that's because American McGee respected, and treated her as a person. He didn't want to make a femme fatale, or a psycho woman. He wanted to make a troubled girl, that has problems dealing with the inside, and outside world. ㅤI really hoped this game had it's sequel, it would've been such a beautiful ending to two classic games. But alas, EA ruined everything, again.
No achievements. Config file setting locks out the full game. Config fille setting locks the game to 30fps ....ON PC....FOR NO REASON. This is one of the best examples of a great game, owned by a company that seems to be trying their best to make us hate it. Edit the config, mod the game, do what you gotta do, and play it. It's good. The company that owns it needs to be dismantled, and the games need to go back to their rightful creators.
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Alice: Madness Returns is currently priced at 9.99€ on Steam.
No, Alice: Madness Returns is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 9.99€ on Steam.
Yes, Alice: Madness Returns received 21,729 positive votes out of a total of 24,087 achieving a rating of 8.83.
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Alice: Madness Returns was developed by Spicy Horse Games and published by Electronic Arts.
Yes, Alice: Madness Returns is playable and fully supported on Windows.
No, Alice: Madness Returns is not playable on MacOS.
No, Alice: Madness Returns is not playable on Linux.
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No, Alice: Madness Returns does not support VR.
Alice: Madness Returns is a single-player game.
No, Alice: Madness Returns does not currently offer any DLC.
No, Alice: Madness Returns does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
No, Alice: Madness Returns does not support Steam Remote Play.
Yes, Alice: Madness Returns is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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Developer
Spicy Horse Games
Publisher
Electronic Arts
Release
17 Jun 2011
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