Alicemare

Alicemare

Worth it · Narrative · 2016

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $2.99.

Length
2.4h
Value
$1.25/hr
Reviews
88% positive
No price makes it a BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
2.4h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
3.5h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$1.25
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$2.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
88%
1,230 reviews, as of Sep 26
Players
75K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2016

Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Integrated graphics, 82 MB of storage. Windows only.

Alicemare is a somehow familiar yet totally unique adventure game infused with subtle hints of horror, created by △○□× (Miwashiba) using the WOLF RPG Editor.
Description from the Steam store page.

What drives the score

How to read this

Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Engagement23% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value$1.25/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews88% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
Length2.4 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach75K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 373 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

The lowest price on record is $1.19, set in September 2020. Its cuts run 60 percent off as a rule. There have been 92 in the 10 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart.

On value it sits in the top 2 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 79 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 88 percent. Among the games that feel like it, LISA: The Painful ($19.99, scores 80) beats it on value, while it beats The Mirror Lied (free, scores 67).

Steam's global achievement data puts 23 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Of the 373 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 72 percent of the 115 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

55% start to 23% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements

What players say

Alicemare is a strange game where we're put in what appears to be a kindergarten for children with special needs. It's a standard RPGmaker-style game. First of all, I must talk about the terrible movement system. The environment, like in a typical RPGmaker game, is divided into a grid, with one object per square. But, for some reason, the movement system in game is split into a half-grid, making movement, turns and...
Fiat PuntoNot recommendedafter 6.0hAug 2026Read on Steam
I really didn't like this game. The puzzles were either too easy or totally unclear; I wouldn't have minded if I enjoyed the rest of the game. But for a narrative-driven game, the story wasn't great. The premise is really interesting: travelling to different fairytale worlds. each distorted by the trauma of its originator. Brothers Grimm meets Kingdom Hearts? Sounds dope. Unfortunately, we don't spend enough time in...
goblin_Not recommendedafter 7.3hAug 2026Read on Steam
this game is such a throwback ^^ the story actually isn't much but i love the old rpg maker games and the art
hashidaRecommendedafter 2.8hJul 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Alicemare scores 77/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/524850/alicemare
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Reviews 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 Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.

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Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

Developer△○□× (Miwashiba)
PublisherPLAYISM
GenreNarrative
Released2016
Achievements13