Alice and the Other Side Opens on Steam With 99 Percent Positive Reviews
The card adventure's early reception suggests players are responding to a design where combat is optional and sneaking past a fight counts as a solution, not a failure state.
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Hanamiriro's Alice and the Other Side launched on PC via Steam on October 16 through publisher 2P Games, with Japanese in-game text. The single-player card adventure sets Alice in a fairy-tale world built from cards arranged on a 3x2 grid. Steam user reviews sit at Very Positive, with 99 percent of 171 reviews positive. Enemies can be fought, observed, greeted, or bribed, and the developer says it will keep patching.
The field is six cards on a 3x2 grid. Scenery and character cards make up the board, and action and item cards come from the hand. Dragging one onto the other produces reactions, opens new location and character cards, and lets players combine gathered materials into tools or spend skill points on ability cards.
Encounters have multiple exits. Besides attacking, Alice can observe an opponent or interact with them directly, from a greeting to an elbow strike to slipping a hallucinogenic mushroom to a merchant. Violent or thieving choices raise notoriety and change how the opponent responds. The picture-book visuals give way to unsettling cards and CG scenes as the story moves, and psychological horror runs alongside the Lewis Carroll imagery. The release sale runs until October 30 at 945 yen, 10 percent off.
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