Games like Alice: Madness Returns
If Alice: Madness Returns is your kind of game, the closest matches are Psychonauts, Castlevania: Lords of Shadow – Ultimate Edition and Three Defilements — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmosphere is oppressively immersive, atmospheric and dark. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →Alice: Madness Returns is a dark psychological action-adventure game released in 2011 by Spicy Horse Games. Players guide Alice Liddell through a gothic retelling of Wonderland as she battles psychological trauma, navigating boss-focused levels with bizarre weapons that reviewers describe as creative. The game features chapter-specific costume changes and collectible-driven exploration, with a narrative rich in psychological symbolism. Players describe the experience as atmospheric and unsettling, noting that the Cheshire Cat provides unsettling narration throughout. Reviewers highlight that chapter themes are vividly distinct and that the story subverts expectations of Alice in Wonderland. Currently priced at $1.99 and rated 89% positive from over 10,500 Steam reviews, it is playable on Steam Deck.
About Alice: Madness Returns: 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.
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Psychonauts
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Top pick for Alice: Madness Returns fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Alice: Madness Returns.
A Psychic Odyssey Through the Minds of Misfits, Monsters, and Madmen. This classic action/adventure platformer from acclaimed developers Double Fine Productions follows the story of a young psychic named Razputin.
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow – Ultimate Edition
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Shares a dark mood with Alice: Madness Returns.
Second-strongest match for Alice: Madness Returns fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Alice: Madness Returns.
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow – Ultimate Edition is the complete edition of Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, a dark and vivid new re-imagining of the Castlevania mythology. It is the end of days and ungodly powers isolate the Earth.
Three Defilements
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Third-strongest match for Alice: Madness Returns fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Alice: Madness Returns.
Three Defilements is a hack and slash adventure game about a young woman who keeps waking up in the same place every day. She travels to find a way out of this cycle, passing through various strange places. and must battle her most vexing foe, her own defilements.
GwenBlade
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Ranked #4 for Alice: Madness Returns fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Alice: Madness Returns.
SLASH YOUR FEARS in light-paced action/platformer with Story-driven Roguelite in the minds of mentally ill people! Solodev project on UE5
Koshmar: The Last Reverie
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Ranked #5 for Alice: Madness Returns fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Alice: Madness Returns.
When a city falls to a sleeping plague, nightmares rise up. Awaken the city as a mortician’s daughter who walks the line between the sleeping and the waking. Fight through the dreams, seal the rifts, make choices that chip away at who she is, try to become the nightmare that nightmares fear.
Zorro and Zedd
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Ranked #6 for Alice: Madness Returns fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Alice: Madness Returns.
Slay Dragons, collect magical gems, unlock ancient powers, and adventure through the mystical land of Dundalk as Zorro and Zedd. Vanquish the dreaded Dragon Lords, defeat the Dragon King, and retake your Homeland for all Bat-kind!
Dark Wonderland
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Ranked #7 for Alice: Madness Returns fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Alice: Madness Returns.
Alice finds herself lost in a whimsical but dangerous Wonderland. In this dark fantasy action-adventure you will meet the twisted creeps and critters that inhabit it, feel free to kill them, they're mad like you.
The Cruel Dreamer Marchosias
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Ranked #8 for Alice: Madness Returns fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Alice: Madness Returns.
Join Wolf on their mission to right the atrocity committed against their family. Together with the mysterious entity 'IV', Wolf will brave the monsters lurking in the shadows, explore long-forgotten ruins and solve mysterious puzzles in order to reach an ancient castle located between worlds.
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Fran Bow
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Shares an unsettling mood with Alice: Madness Returns.
Reviewers of Alice: Madness Returns cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Alice: Madness Returns.
Fran Bow is a creepy adventure game that tells the story of Fran, a young girl struggling with a mental disorder and an unfair destiny.
BioShock™
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Alice: Madness Returns.
Reviewers of Alice: Madness Returns cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Alice: Madness Returns.
BioShock is a shooter unlike any you've ever played, loaded with weapons and tactics never seen. You'll have a complete arsenal at your disposal from simple revolvers to grenade launchers and chemical throwers, but you'll also be forced to genetically modify your DNA to create an even more deadly weapon: you.
Dishonored
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Alice: Madness Returns.
Reviewers of Alice: Madness Returns cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Alice: Madness Returns.
Dishonored is an immersive first-person action game that casts you as a supernatural assassin driven by revenge. With Dishonored’s flexible combat system, creatively eliminate your targets as you combine the supernatural abilities, weapons and unusual gadgets at your disposal.
Psychonauts
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Reviewers of Alice: Madness Returns cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Alice: Madness Returns.
A Psychic Odyssey Through the Minds of Misfits, Monsters, and Madmen. This classic action/adventure platformer from acclaimed developers Double Fine Productions follows the story of a young psychic named Razputin.
NieR:Automata™
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Alice: Madness Returns.
Reviewers of Alice: Madness Returns cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Alice: Madness Returns.
NieR: Automata tells the story of androids 2B, 9S and A2 and their battle to reclaim the machine-driven dystopia overrun by powerful machines.
BioShock Infinite
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Alice: Madness Returns.
Reviewers of Alice: Madness Returns cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Alice: Madness Returns.
Indebted to the wrong people, with his life on the line, veteran of the U.S. Cavalry and now hired gun, Booker DeWitt has only one opportunity to wipe his slate clean. He must rescue Elizabeth, a mysterious girl imprisoned since childhood and locked up in the flying city of Columbia.
Little Nightmares II
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Alice: Madness Returns.
Reviewers of Alice: Madness Returns cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Alice: Madness Returns.
Little Nightmares II is the second game in a series that has thrilled and captivated millions of players worldwide since 2017. Now it’s your turn to try to survive this critically acclaimed entry in the most charming horror series ever made.
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Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Alice: Madness Returns at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~50% under Alice: Madness Returns on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Alice: Madness Returns.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~50% under Alice: Madness Returns on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Alice: Madness Returns.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
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Priced ~50% under Alice: Madness Returns on Steam right now. Shares Action with Alice: Madness Returns.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Bit Blaster XL
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Priced ~50% under Alice: Madness Returns on Steam right now. Shares Action with Alice: Madness Returns.
Bit Blaster XL is a fast-paced, retro arcade shoot 'em up (shmup) inspired by the classic quarter-munchers of the ‘80s. Easy to pick up, hard to put down, boost, dodge, shoot, and chase high scores in this addictive, old-school action game!
TYRONE vs COPS
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Priced ~50% under Alice: Madness Returns on Steam right now. Shares Action with Alice: Madness Returns.
Awaken the latent power of your melanin and kill cops in this thought-provoking game on police brutality in America.
Orbt XL
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Priced ~50% under Alice: Madness Returns on Steam right now. Shares Action with Alice: Madness Returns.
Defy gravity in Orbt XL! A fast-paced, addictive, 'just-one-more-round' arcade score chaser. Stay in orbit, dodge obstacles, and rack up points, the closer you are to the black hole, the higher your score! Easy to learn, tough to master, and perfect for quick play sessions while waiting in queue.
Landlord of the Woods
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Priced ~50% under Alice: Madness Returns on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Alice: Madness Returns.
You're 25, you feel like all of your peers are ahead of you in life so you apply for a new job to try to find some sort of meaning. Your new career is filled with physics-based puzzles, hand drawn art & a cute little story.
Toree 2
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Priced ~50% under Alice: Madness Returns on Steam right now. Shares Action with Alice: Madness Returns.
A bite-sized 3D Platformer sequel with more focus on the things people enjoyed in the first game like fast gameplay, flow focused levels and cute costumes (two this time).
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Alice: Madness Returns.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Alice: Madness Returns.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Alice: Madness Returns.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Alice: Madness Returns.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Frequently asked about Alice: Madness Returns
- Does Alice: Madness Returns run on Steam Deck?
- Alice: Madness Returns is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Alice: Madness Returns cost?
- Alice: Madness Returns is listed on Steam at 1.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Alice: Madness Returns?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Alice: Madness Returns are Psychonauts, Castlevania: Lords of Shadow – Ultimate Edition, Three Defilements.
- Who developed Alice: Madness Returns?
- Alice: Madness Returns was developed by Spicy Horse Games and published by Electronic Arts.
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