How many people are playing Alice: Madness Returns right now?

237 people are playing Alice: Madness Returns on Steam right now, making it the 1452nd most played game on Steam. In the last 24 hours it peaked at 412 players. The number updates every few minutes.

What is Alice: Madness Returns's all-time peak player count?

Alice: Madness Returns's highest concurrent player count on Steam is 1,229, reached in February 2025.

Is Alice: Madness Returns good? What do Steam reviews say?

90% of 28,246 Steam user reviews are positive (Very Positive).

How much does Alice: Madness Returns cost on Steam?

Alice: Madness Returns costs $9.99 on Steam (US).

Does Alice: Madness Returns work on Steam Deck?

Alice: Madness Returns is Playable on Steam Deck (with small issues), according to Valve's Steam Deck compatibility check.

Alice: Madness Returns

by Spicy Horse Games · published by Electronic Arts · Released Jun 17, 2011

Steam Deck PlayableLinux & Deck: Platinum

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Players now

#1,452

237

▼ 18.6%vs 24h ago · updates every minute

Review score

90% positive

Very Positive28,246 reviews

Owners (est.)1M–2M

24h peak

412

Highest seen1,229

Feb 20251.8 years ago

Price on Steam

$9.99

Lowest ever $9.99 Oct 2026

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Players -18.6% in the last 24 hoursUpdated 15:18 UTC · tracking since 2012-07-01

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Steam Deck

Works, but may need extra effort. Results from Valve's own testing.

Steam Deck Playable

!Controller glyphs do not match deck device
!Text input does not automatically invokes keyboard
✓Default controller config fully functional
✓Interface text is legible
✓Default configuration is performant

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Patches & builds

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Jan 14, 2022, 6:00 PM UTC
Build 7889667the current build when we started tracking8.9 GB on Windows

Patch notes

Nov 16, 2025
PatchThe 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
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 game…

Other news (19)

Apr 24, 2026
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'
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 , of…
Apr 22, 2026
Alice creator American McGee says he was inspired by a Valve demo he saw while working on Quake 2
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—w…
Jun 30, 2024
American McGee tells EA the "roadmap is waiting" on an Alice sequel
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…
Apr 16, 2023
American McGee feels your "pain and anger" over no EA Alice sequel
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…
Apr 8, 2023
American McGee's Alice Madness Returns sequel dropped by EA
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 docu…
Jun 20, 2022
Alice: Madness Returns is back on Steam again, American McGee says ‘yikes’
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.
Jun 19, 2022
Alice: Madness Returns has been taken off Steam again
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 Februar…
Mar 22, 2022
Alice: Madness Returns appears on Steam again, works well on Steam Deck with 60FPS fix
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-wel…
Mar 1, 2022
Alice: Madness Returns is back on Steam after a 5 year absence
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.
Aug 22, 2021
Alice: Asylum's 'narrative outline' might be the closest fans get to American McGee's Alice 3
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' fo…
Jun 4, 2019
Have You Played Alice: Madness Returns?
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 a…
Jul 11, 2018
Denial Dresses and Chaos Containers
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. Th…
Jan 16, 2018
More Alice 3 info
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. Especiall…
Dec 6, 2017
Alice 3, coming...... soon?
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? http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/3952862/9f230b63e6035a938913ad4d0…
Jul 18, 2017
American McGee: "stop bugging me about Alice 3"
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) questi…
Sep 5, 2016
Daily Deal - Alice: Madness Returns, 75% Off
Today's Deal: Save 75% on Alice: Madness Returns !* Look for the deals each day on the front page of Steam. Or follow us on twitter or Facebook for instant notifications wherever you are! *Offer ends Wednesday at 10AM Pacific Time
Apr 9, 2014
Daily Deal - Alice: Madness Returns, 75% Off
Today's Deal: Save 75% on Alice: Madness Returns !* Look for the deals each day on the front page of Steam. Or follow us on twitter or Facebook for instant notifications wherever you are! *Offer ends Friday at 10AM Pacific Time
Mar 3, 2014
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Dec 18, 2013
Little China Doll: How Spicy Horse Imagined Alice: Madness Returns
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…

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Review score: 90% on 2026-11-01 → 90% today (28,246 reviews)

Oct 31, 2026Price$9.99

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