Alice Mystery Garden
Worth it · Short indie · 2017
The verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $4.99.
- Length
- 1.7h 1.9h to 100%
- Value
- $2.94/hr
- Reviews
- 96% of 209 positive
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Buy now or wait
Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 1019 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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About the game
Join Alice, who has wandered into the wondrous land of Alice Mystery Garden, to overcome adversity in this VR action-puzzle game. Control Alice's movements while switching back and forth between a top-down player perspective and Alice's in-world perspective to collect scattered looking-glass fragments and clear each stage.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 / AMD Radeon R9 290 equivalent or greater, 1.4 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 42 discounts in the 9 years tracked, the median cut is 34 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 146 weeks ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 3 percent on value. It is pricier than 65 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. Among the games that feel like it, inbento ($0.79, scores 95) beats it on value, while it beats Moss VR ($9.99, scores 66).
More about Alice Mystery Garden
Inside the two-hour refund window, 94 percent of the 158 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 76 percent of everything written about it.
What players say
I completed it in under 2 hours. Was a very fun puzzle plat-former. Definitely didn't overstay its welcome. Would play through again. Very cutesy. Only issue I had was not having a steam menu. 100% would recommend this cheap gem.
2 more reviews
Just moments ago, I had the distinct pleasure to complete Alice Mystery Garden (AMG), and with few exceptions, had an exceptional VR experience. While the future may be filled with compliments such as "makes outstanding use of the VR medium" to describe games making the transition from "good VR game" to simply "good game that happens to be VR", AMG will likely be a game that can proudly wear this badge for quite a...
I'm a sucker for anything related to Alice in Wonderland so I'm loving this. It's cheap, Alice is adorable and the puzzles are pretty decent. You can't go wrong. It works well in VR as long as you don't mind the teeny tiny models. I also like the little interactive bits on each stage like being able to put out candles or smash statues with your hands. These aren't puzzle elements but just little extras. A few things...
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Cite this score
Alice Mystery Garden scores 74/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/751300/alice-mystery-gardenReviews 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 30, price as of Oct 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.