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Alice: Madness Returns

Spicy Horse Games · Electronic Arts · 2011-06-17

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ActionAdventure

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person, Third person

Releases: Jul 21, 2011 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jun 16, 2011 (PlayStation 3), Jun 16, 2011 (Xbox 360)

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 an Action and Adventure game released in 2011, priced at $9.99, with an owner estimate of 1,000,000 .. 2,000,000 and a review sentiment of Very Positive (91% of 30943 reviews).

199
playing now
91%
positive of 31k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
1,000,000–2,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
1,757
twitch viewers (latest)
1757.0
viewers/channel (concentration)
72/100
critic score (5 outlets, IGDB)
74/100
IGDB user rating (327 ratings)
62
Nexus mods (93k downloads)
16h
to beat · rushed 13h · completionist 18h
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$9.99
steam price (US)

199 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 11:00 UTC (census sample)

Alice: Madness Returns is a 2011 action-adventure game developed by Spicy Horse and released by Electronic Arts for Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. The game is the sequel to American McGee's Alice (2000) and was directed by series creator American McGee.

Trailer

Alice: Madness Returns trailer thumbnail

Alice: Madness Returns - Official Teaser Trailer

≈1,000,000 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Healthy
  • · 199 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 3,886 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~486/week).
  • · Review velocity up 11% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 2% of 27,667 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-30

Estimated sales: 1.3M–2.5M copies

Review-multiple estimate from 31,277 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$0.00

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.99 at EA Store (2024-03-07)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 29 of 42 observed days · at its all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
69069020142026Week of 2014-04-01: 181 positiveWeek of 2014-04-01: 27 negativeWeek of 2014-05-01: 75 positiveWeek of 2014-05-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2014-06-01: 259 positiveWeek of 2014-06-01: 27 negativeWeek of 2014-07-01: 143 positiveWeek of 2014-07-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2014-08-01: 90 positiveWeek of 2014-08-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2014-09-01: 61 positiveWeek of 2014-09-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2014-10-01: 85 positiveWeek of 2014-10-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2014-11-01: 177 positiveWeek of 2014-11-01: 26 negativeWeek of 2014-12-01: 183 positiveWeek of 2014-12-01: 36 negativeWeek of 2015-01-01: 183 positiveWeek of 2015-01-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2015-02-01: 82 positiveWeek of 2015-02-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2015-03-01: 80 positiveWeek of 2015-03-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2015-04-01: 66 positiveWeek of 2015-04-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2015-05-01: 56 positiveWeek of 2015-05-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2015-06-01: 185 positiveWeek of 2015-06-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2015-07-01: 110 positiveWeek of 2015-07-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2015-08-01: 58 positiveWeek of 2015-08-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2015-09-01: 72 positiveWeek of 2015-09-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2015-10-01: 74 positiveWeek of 2015-10-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2015-11-01: 149 positiveWeek of 2015-11-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2015-12-01: 171 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2016-01-01: 147 positiveWeek of 2016-01-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2016-02-01: 118 positiveWeek of 2016-02-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2016-03-01: 69 positiveWeek of 2016-03-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2016-04-01: 61 positiveWeek of 2016-04-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2016-05-01: 89 positiveWeek of 2016-05-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2016-06-01: 123 positiveWeek of 2016-06-01: 27 negativeWeek of 2016-07-01: 171 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 38 negativeWeek of 2016-08-01: 89 positiveWeek of 2016-08-01: 28 negativeWeek of 2016-09-01: 217 positiveWeek of 2016-09-01: 96 negativeWeek of 2016-10-01: 82 positiveWeek of 2016-10-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2016-11-01: 258 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2016-12-01: 85 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2017-01-01: 71 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2017-02-01: 58 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2017-03-01: 67 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2017-04-01: 52 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2017-05-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2017-06-01: 76 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 48 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2017-08-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2017-09-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 132 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 590 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 55 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 194 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 137 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 306 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 37 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 191 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 126 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 173 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 35 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 237 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 37 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 378 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 45 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 249 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 31 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 273 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 32 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 170 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 186 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 395 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 59 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 278 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 171 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 232 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 185 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 189 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 202 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 391 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 46 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 367 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 46 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 276 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 31 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 303 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 29 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 306 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 29 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 254 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 607 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 75 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 406 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 31 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 580 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 54 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 576 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 64 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 366 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 41 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 360 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 32 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 548 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 72 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 690 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 66 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 548 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 50 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 610 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 81 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 635 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 59 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 433 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 52 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 442 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 48 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 462 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 34 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 510 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 48 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 297 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 33 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 278 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 27 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 360 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 34 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 396 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 34 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 488 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 41 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 449 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 33 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 360 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 39 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 465 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 47 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 451 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 43 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 437 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 46 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 430 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 46 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 473 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 38 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 445 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 34 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

5711212026-09-15 12:00 — 186 players2026-09-16 20:00 — 335 players2026-09-18 03:00 — 239 players2026-09-19 11:00 — 201 players2026-09-20 18:00 — 442 players2026-09-22 02:00 — 257 players2026-09-23 10:00 — 123 players2026-09-24 17:00 — 257 players2026-09-26 01:00 — 253 players2026-09-27 08:00 — 177 players2026-09-28 16:00 — 250 players2026-09-29 23:00 — 239 players2026-10-01 07:00 — 121 players2026-10-02 14:00 — 290 players2026-10-03 22:00 — 485 players2026-10-05 06:00 — 235 players2026-10-06 13:00 — 332 players2026-10-07 21:00 — 431 players2026-10-09 04:00 — 288 players2026-10-10 12:00 — 330 players2026-10-11 20:00 — 571 players2026-10-13 03:00 — 313 players2026-10-14 11:00 — 199 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
5328Jul 2012Aug 2026Jul 2012 — avg 155 · peak 421Dec 2012 — avg 74 · peak 388May 2013 — avg 41 · peak 90Oct 2013 — avg 44 · peak 296Mar 2014 — avg 172 · peak 671Aug 2014 — avg 88 · peak 174Jan 2015 — avg 158 · peak 600Jun 2015 — avg 171 · peak 739Nov 2015 — avg 174 · peak 647Apr 2016 — avg 84 · peak 178Sep 2016 — avg 108 · peak 418Feb 2017 — avg 48 · peak 104Jul 2017 — avg 41 · peak 83Dec 2017 — avg 30 · peak 62May 2018 — avg 26 · peak 54Oct 2018 — avg 20 · peak 49Mar 2019 — avg 16 · peak 40Aug 2019 — avg 16 · peak 40Jan 2020 — avg 15 · peak 40Jun 2020 — avg 16 · peak 38Nov 2020 — avg 15 · peak 34Apr 2021 — avg 12 · peak 30Sep 2021 — avg 11 · peak 33Feb 2022 — avg 13 · peak 37Jul 2022 — avg 116 · peak 238Dec 2022 — avg 149 · peak 296May 2023 — avg 157 · peak 404Oct 2023 — avg 125 · peak 427Mar 2024 — avg 188 · peak 445Aug 2024 — avg 387 · peak 835Jan 2025 — avg 406 · peak 819Jun 2025 — avg 314 · peak 643Nov 2025 — avg 300 · peak 701Apr 2026 — avg 302 · peak 855Aug 2026 — avg 363 · peak 701
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Chart history

PositiveNegative
22222026-09-262026-10-142026-09-26: 12 new positive2026-09-26: 4 new negative2026-09-28: 20 new positive2026-09-28: 2 new negative2026-09-29: 17 new positive2026-09-29: 2 new negative2026-10-01: 14 new positive2026-10-04: 11 new positive2026-10-04: 3 new negative2026-10-05: 22 new positive2026-10-05: 1 new negative2026-10-06: 9 new positive2026-10-06: 3 new negative2026-10-07: 9 new positive2026-10-07: 3 new negative2026-10-09: 22 new positive2026-10-09: 2 new negative2026-10-10: 18 new positive2026-10-11: 14 new positive2026-10-11: 2 new negative2026-10-13: 12 new positive2026-10-13: 3 new negative2026-10-14: 2 new positive2026-10-14: 2 new negative
New Steam reviews per day (census review snapshots). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$23.31$0.002015-01-012026-10-112015-01-01 — best price $9.992015-02-19 — best price $19.992015-04-02 — best price $9.992015-04-30 — best price $11.102015-06-11 — best price $9.992015-07-08 — best price $23.142015-10-25 — best price $7.992015-11-24 — best price $4.992016-02-02 — best price $7.992016-05-03 — best price $9.272016-08-16 — best price $4.992017-01-05 — best price $19.992017-11-28 — best price $19.992018-06-22 — best price $19.992019-03-19 — best price $19.992020-01-14 — best price $13.012020-02-13 — best price $11.892020-11-10 — best price $19.992021-09-13 — best price $17.992021-10-28 — best price $5.002022-09-20 — best price $4.992023-01-05 — best price $19.992023-04-13 — best price $19.992023-09-11 — best price $3.992024-02-06 — best price $2.992024-04-30 — best price $1.492024-09-26 — best price $9.992025-01-02 — best price $9.992025-04-24 — best price $9.992025-08-21 — best price $9.992026-01-05 — best price $9.992026-03-11 — best price $2.492026-07-02 — best price $9.992026-08-11 — best price $2.492026-09-27 — best price $0.002026-10-11 — best price $0.00
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

8814152026-06-01 — 459 pageviews2026-06-05 — 501 pageviews2026-06-09 — 435 pageviews2026-06-13 — 462 pageviews2026-06-17 — 448 pageviews2026-06-21 — 610 pageviews2026-06-25 — 571 pageviews2026-06-29 — 622 pageviews2026-07-03 — 458 pageviews2026-07-07 — 512 pageviews2026-07-11 — 575 pageviews2026-07-15 — 522 pageviews2026-07-19 — 518 pageviews2026-07-23 — 772 pageviews2026-07-27 — 497 pageviews2026-07-31 — 494 pageviews2026-08-04 — 532 pageviews2026-08-08 — 583 pageviews2026-08-12 — 531 pageviews2026-08-16 — 562 pageviews2026-08-20 — 488 pageviews2026-08-24 — 574 pageviews2026-08-28 — 491 pageviews2026-09-01 — 484 pageviews2026-09-05 — 493 pageviews2026-09-09 — 513 pageviews2026-09-13 — 649 pageviews2026-09-17 — 548 pageviews2026-09-21 — 542 pageviews2026-09-25 — 456 pageviews2026-09-29 — 485 pageviews2026-10-03 — 629 pageviews2026-10-07 — 763 pageviews2026-10-11 — 528 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Twitch viewers

2.3k52026-10-01 23:34 — 16 viewers2026-10-02 05:34 — 46 viewers2026-10-02 11:34 — 6 viewers2026-10-03 23:34 — 2,249 viewers2026-10-04 05:34 — 60 viewers2026-10-04 11:34 — 14 viewers2026-10-04 17:34 — 164 viewers2026-10-04 23:34 — 83 viewers2026-10-05 05:34 — 199 viewers2026-10-05 14:34 — 73 viewers2026-10-05 20:34 — 217 viewers2026-10-06 02:34 — 1,825 viewers2026-10-06 07:12 — 1,906 viewers2026-10-06 11:34 — 26 viewers2026-10-06 17:34 — 188 viewers2026-10-06 23:34 — 128 viewers2026-10-07 05:34 — 413 viewers2026-10-07 11:34 — 43 viewers2026-10-07 17:34 — 34 viewers2026-10-07 23:34 — 547 viewers2026-10-08 05:34 — 95 viewers2026-10-08 11:34 — 10 viewers2026-10-09 07:34 — 46 viewers2026-10-09 13:34 — 316 viewers2026-10-09 19:34 — 163 viewers2026-10-10 01:34 — 92 viewers2026-10-10 07:34 — 68 viewers2026-10-10 13:34 — 42 viewers2026-10-11 09:34 — 258 viewers2026-10-11 15:34 — 53 viewers2026-10-11 21:34 — 39 viewers2026-10-12 03:34 — 25 viewers2026-10-12 09:34 — 18 viewers2026-10-13 07:34 — 18 viewers2026-10-13 13:34 — 15 viewers2026-10-13 19:34 — 71 viewers2026-10-14 01:34 — 68 viewers2026-10-14 07:34 — 319 viewers2026-10-14 10:34 — 168 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerPartial Controller SupportFamily Sharing

5 supported languages: English, French, German, Italian, Japanese

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Xbox 360 (Xbox)45,6416%50
PS3 (PlayStation)38,41915%51
PS3 (PlayStation)1,67253%45

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

ActionGothicHorrorFantasySurrealPlatformerStory RichDark FantasySingleplayerThird Person

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Recent updates

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Similarity via IGDB.

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