Alice: Madness Returns
Worth it · Action · 2011
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 75% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$9.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$1.9980% offWorth it
- Cost per hourS
- $0.71/hr
- ReviewsS
- 91% of 31,463
- Critics
- 75 players 16 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 1% Action
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $1.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 14h
- To 100%
- 22.6h 1.6x the story
Price and sales
- Sales
- 53 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $0.99 November 2024
- Sale every
- 45d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 127 now
- Recent reviews
- 91% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 24% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 97% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
53 discounts in the 14 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 76 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games closest to it, Hellblade II: Senua’s Saga ($49.99, scores 40) and Blood Omen 2: Legacy of Kain ($6.99, scores 22) both come in lower.
More about Alice: Madness Returns
75 from critics against 91 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
12 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2025 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 78 percent of the 3,481 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 13 percent of everything written about it.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 31 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Amazing game. The plot is well written, the platforming fun and hard at times, the world-building and design are immaculate and the characters are all unique. Alice is an amazing protagonist and Wonderland is impressive and varied. This game is definitely worth a shot! My only issue has nothing to do with the game itself, but with how it was ported to pc. The port is very unstable, sometimes freezing and crashing or...
2 more reviews
alice madness returns is genuinely one of my favourite games ever. i first played it on the xbox 360 when i was younger and it ended up becoming such a huge part of my childhood. even now i still find myself coming back to it and i honestly don't think i'll ever get tired of it. there's just something abt this game that i've never been able to find anywhere else. i absolutely love how they took alice in wonderland...
Great game despite EA's hate. Look over guides on how to mod this game to increase performance. Because this one is worth atleast one playthrough. Sucks that Alice Asylum will never see the light of day.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, *NVIDIA GeForce 7600 256MB or ATI Radeon X1650 256MB or greater, 8.5 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Alice: Madness Returns scores 84/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/19680/alice-madness-returnsReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.