- The Alice: Madness Returns dev team 'made history,' American McGee says: It was 'the first team ever to tell EA *** and (kinda) get away with it' - 24 April 2026
lice creator American McGee has been in something of a chatty mood lately. Just a couple days after relating a tale about how he drew inspiration from a Valve demo he saw while working on Quake 2 at id, he shared another story about Alice: Madness Returns , offering a fun glimpse into game dev financing, dildo snails, and maybe why EA may have decided not to move ahead with a third game in the series... Read more.
- Alice creator American McGee says he was inspired by a Valve demo he saw while working on Quake 2 - 22 April 2026
merican McGee's Alice wasn't a big hit, but it has proven to be one of those enduring cult classics: 26 years after its release, there's still demand for a new one. In a recent post on X , McGee shared some insights into one of the inspirations for that game—which was also his first real signal that his days at id Software were numbered... Read more.
- The sequel to one of my favorite 3D platformers always had a janky PC port, but a huge fanmade patch just dropped in hopes to fix it - 16 November 2025
merican McGee's Alice is simply sensational , what with its weird, janky hybrid of shooter-inspired action and surreal 3D platforming, and though the sequel Madness Returns didn't hit me quite as hard, it's still well worth your time . The problem, for PC gamers at least, is that Madness Returns has a pretty rough port that's only gotten harder to work with since its release in 2011; until now, anyway... Read more.
- American McGee tells EA the "roadmap is waiting" on an Alice sequel - 30 June 2024
Everyone wants what they can't have. Knowing something is out of reach always makes it more desirable, and videogames are no exception. Beyond Good and Evil 2, the full launch of Star Citizen, and even the fabled Half-Life 3. If there's any chance we'll get it, we want it. The sequel to 2011's Alice Madness Returns is one such game, and while director American McGee says his part is done, he has a message for EA: "The roadmap is waiting." Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: American McGee feels your "pain and anger" over no EA Alice sequel American McGee's Alice Madness Returns sequel dropped by EA American McGee's Alice: Madness Returns removed from Steam, again
- American McGee feels your "pain and anger" over no EA Alice sequel - 16 April 2023
Creative director behind Alice Madness Returns American McGee says he feels the same "pain and anger" as many fans of the cult classic action-adventure game series after he revealed that EA dropped potential sequel Alice Asylum recently. This follows both fans and McGee's hope that the third entry could see the light of day, which no longer appears to be the case. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: American McGee's Alice Madness Returns sequel dropped by EA American McGee's Alice: Madness Returns removed from Steam, again Alice: Asylum's 'narrative outline' might be the closest fans get to American McGee's Alice 3
- American McGee's Alice Madness Returns sequel dropped by EA - 8 April 2023
The sequel to Alice Madness Returns , titled Alice Asylum, has been scrapped by EA according to designer American McGee. The potential action-adventure game had been in Patreon-funded limbo for some time, as fans of the cult classic helped make the design document eventually seen by EA a reality, but the publisher has decided not to move forward with the series, despite calling it an "important" part of their library. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: American McGee's Alice: Madness Returns removed from Steam, again Alice: Asylum's 'narrative outline' might be the closest fans get to American McGee's Alice 3 American McGee plays American McGee's Alice sequel on YouTube, gets copyright claim
- Alice: Madness Returns is back on Steam again, American McGee says ‘yikes’ - 20 June 2022
Just a couple days after Alice: Madness Returns disappeared without warning from Steam, it's back on the storefront, and it turns out that—as expected—the whole thing was a big mistake... Read more.
- Alice: Madness Returns has been taken off Steam again - 19 June 2022
Alice: Madness Returns , the sequel to American McGee's Alice , hasn't had a great time of it on Steam. After being delisted in late 2016 due to problems with the DRM publisher Electronic Arts saddled it with, Madness Returns returned in late February this year . It managed to stay on Steam for less than four months before being removed again. As the boilerplate text on its Steam page currently says, "At the request of the publisher, Alice: Madness Returns is no longer available for sale on Steam.".. Read more.
- Alice: Madness Returns appears on Steam again, works well on Steam Deck with 60FPS fix - 22 March 2022
Alice: Madness Returns is an absolute classic from Spicy Horse Games and EA. It vanished from Steam for years and it recently arrived back. Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/03/alice-madness-returns-appears-on-steam-again-works-well-on-steam-deck-with-60fps-fix
- Alice: Madness Returns is back on Steam after a 5 year absence - 1 March 2022
Madness: Alice Returns—the second game in American McGee's wonderfully twisted adaptation of Lewis Carrol's Alice in Wonderland—has finally made a return on Steam after nearly six years... Read more.
- Alice: Asylum's 'narrative outline' might be the closest fans get to American McGee's Alice 3 - 22 August 2021
It's been a long time since anything substantial was heard about Alice: Asylum , otherwise known as American McGee's Alice 3 - the dark fantasy action-platformer take on Alice In Wonderland. Now creator American McGee has released a full 'narrative outline' for the game, so fans can experience Asylum's entire story - which is great, because the game is a long way off. The two Alice games were released by EA in 2000 and 2011 - the tenth anniversary of Alice: Madness Returns was last June - and were well-regarded by fans, despite being relatively straightforward action-platformers. The dark and unique take on the Alice stories were a big part of the appeal, for sure. American McGee has been working on a third game - Alice: Asylum - since around 2017, and has been steadily releasing pieces of artwork and info on the Alice Patreon since then. This weekend McGee put out possibly the biggest…
- Have You Played Alice: Madness Returns? - 4 June 2019
Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time. When your name is Alice you either get people singing that song at you, you know, that song (none of us think it is funny please don t do it), or cracks about Alice In Wonderland. I was either going to have to play all this American McGee nonsense or insist that I would never ever play it ever. In fact, I played Alice: Madness Returns before the first one, and I do think it s the better of the two. (more…)
- Denial Dresses and Chaos Containers - 11 July 2018
Some wonderful creativity flowing from our community of Insane Children over on Patreon into the pre-production of Alice Asylum. Now we're working through a series of new Dress Designs based on the areas in Wonderland Alice will visit in this new adventure. Those areas as based (in part) on the stages of grief and on Alice's confrontation with PTSD. In this image we see Alice in her new "Denial Dress" - a design which, on the face of it, calls back to innocent days gone by... with a slight hint at that trauma which lies ahead. Did you catch it? https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F3952862%2F5b92a79bcc43d8b54bcb54dc0160dbf2ca1df805.jpg We're also working on the design and presentation of the Chaos Coin - a physical coin we'll produce for Alice fans which grants ownership of a virtual coin in Alice: Asylum. On that virtual coin you can embed a name and message…
- More Alice 3 info - 16 January 2018
Dear Insane Children It's been a month since we whetted your appetite with news of us putting together a proposal to obtain the rights to take Alice off on a 3rd adventure, and we just wanted to stop by and let you all know this is still progressing. Especially in the realm of art. You'll be happy to know that we have Joey and Sonny (previous Alice artists) back on board and we are also very happy to be working with the incredible Omri Koresh But as with any type of independant development, we need YOUR help. Spread the news of Alice Asylum far and wide. Pay particular attention to this handy list of 4 things you can do to help over at... www.americanmcgee.com Also, if you're feeling particularly awesome, why not check out our Patreon, that was recently re-jiggled to make it even more of a bargain at the various tiers. www.patreon.com/americanmcgee Thank you all for your continued suppo…
- Alice 3, coming...... soon? - 6 December 2017
Dear Insane Children. Did you know that we are currently putting together a proposal to licence Alice from EA and to independently create a 3rd Alice game? Well now you know :) Tentatively titled Alice Asylum, this will take place before the events of American McGee's Alice and before Wonderland is fully corrupted. But WE NEED YOUR HELP!!! There are lots of ways you could help to make Alice 3 a reality. 1) Go to www.americanmcgee.com and you will see a handy list of 4 things to do, from supporting our Patreon to simply signing up to our Alice 3 mailing list. 2) Spread the word via your social media channels to everyone you think might be interested. Share this post, share the pictures, tell the world, shout it from the rooftops. 3) If you're a Cosplayer, we're also currently showcasing all the great Alices out there on all our channels too, so why not send in your pics to the inbox on o…
- American McGee: "stop bugging me about Alice 3" - 18 July 2017
Oh, you want a third instalment in the Alice series? That's nice, but you can stop bugging American McGee about it, please. That's the thrust of a new blogpost written by the creator, where he explicitly addresses the (horrifyingly persistent) questions he gets regarding the future of the psychedelic platformer. It's all pretty straightforward: EA owns and controls the Alice brand, while American McGee does not. Nor will the publisher allow him to "crowd fund, raise investment for, or otherwise self-develop, self-fund, or self-publish any interactive version of Alice." That sounds pretty bleak, but it's not. In fact, American McGee seems pretty confident that there will be a new Alice game at some point, but he doesn't know when. "EA are aware that you’d like a new Alice game and that RJ Berg and I would be happy to assist in the design, writing, and deve…
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- Little China Doll: How Spicy Horse Imagined Alice: Madness Returns - 18 December 2013
This is the latest in a series of articles about the art technology of games, in collaboration with the particularly handsome Dead End Thrills . Alice: Madness Returns is a very special action game, a piece of Lewis Carroll fan fiction conceived by an American (named American, naturally) and illustrated largely by the Chinese, a people not known for their absurdism. Unfortunately it’s also a classic victim of checklist game criticism and marketing, not to mention it’s the worst possible thing to reviewers working under deadline: long. Make no mistake, the business of game reviewing is a lot like the business of eating large amounts of Jacob’s Cream Crackers in hot and rowdy East End basements. To put it another way, all games get tiring when you play them past your bedtime. The sequel to American McGee s Alice isn’t great (8/10), solid (7/10), flawed (6/10) or av…
