10 Great Video Games Inspired by Alice in Wonderland

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Ignacio Weil

Gaming - September 5th 2025, 23:45 GMT+2

Cropped imagen 2025 09 03 192648343 — HABROMANIA (2025, upcoming)

Some games dip a toe into Carroll’s dream logic, but *HABROMANIA* dives in headfirst. Announced as a psychological horror adventure, it reimagines Wonderland as a shifting nightmare where absurdity curdles into dread. The title itself comes from a term for euphoric madness – a perfect fit for Carroll’s world of nonsense that always teetered on the edge of the sinister. A demo is already available on Steam, showing off grotesque character designs, branching choices, and environments that seem alive in their refusal to obey logic. If the preview is any indication, the full release will deliver a Wonderland that feels dangerous to wander. | © Toska Studio

Cropped imagen 2025 09 03 192855037 — Alice is Dead: Hearts and Diamonds (2025, re-release)

Before Steam, before polished remakes, *Alice is Dead* was a Newgrounds cult hit – a twisted point-and-click noir set in a Wonderland where Alice never made it out alive. This 2025 re-release, *Hearts and Diamonds*, rebuilds that world with fresh art, expanded puzzles, and a sharper edge, while keeping its rotten heart intact. You play not as Alice, but as a killer navigating a Wonderland run by criminals, where every riddle is a trap and every ally looks like a threat. The Cheshire Cat, the White Rabbit, and the rest of Carroll’s cast are here, but they’re bruised, cruel, and unforgettable. It’s part nostalgia trip for fans of the Flash era, part reinvention for a new audience. | © 2 Left Thumbs

Cropped imagen 2025 09 03 193747903 — Alisa (2021)

*Alisa* dresses itself in survival-horror clothes, with fixed camera angles, stiff animations, and doll-like enemies straight out of the PlayStation 1 era. But its Wonderland roots are clear in the dreamlike mansion setting, populated by grotesque caricatures and illogical rules that echo Carroll more than Capcom. The story follows a young Royal Agent who stumbles into this eerie world, where puppets talk back and the uncanny is ordinary. It’s nostalgic in mechanics but surreal in tone, a fairy tale refracted through the lens of late-’90s horror design. Instead of whimsy, *Alisa* delivers a Wonderland that gnaws at your nerves. | © Casper Croes

Down the Rabbit Hole (2020)

Virtual reality feels made for Wonderland, and *Down the Rabbit Hole* uses it to great effect. You guide a girl who tumbles into Carroll’s world, exploring branching paths and playful puzzles while literally peering into a storybook-shaped diorama around you. The game asks you to crane your neck, shift your view, and uncover secrets hiding just out of sight – a physical echo of Wonderland’s shifting perspective. It’s whimsical and charming, but with just enough unease to keep things strange. More interactive storybook than adaptation, it feels like holding Carroll’s imagination in your hands. | © Cortopia Studios

Cropped imagen 2025 09 03 194649612 — The Bottom of the Well (2016)

*The Bottom of the Well* takes Carroll’s imagery and distills it into something more intimate and unnerving. Presented as an interactive visual novel, it tells the story of Alice recounting a dream about a ruined city, with your choices shaping how that dream unfolds. Instead of colorful rabbits or tea parties, you find whispered threats, eerie silences, and a sense of dread creeping in from the edges. It feels less like an adaptation than a ghostly echo of Wonderland, filtered through a cracked mirror. Short, haunting, and quietly ambitious, it’s the kind of game that leaves you unsettled long after you close it. | © Wolfrug

Cropped imagen 2025 09 03 194958262 — Alicemare (2013)

A school hallway shouldn’t feel threatening, yet in this pixel art tale every corner holds an off-kilter tension. The influence of Carroll’s world isn’t shouted; it seeps through in the dream logic of puzzles and the way ordinary spaces collapse into the surreal. Characters speak in riddles, memories slip, and the whole story hums with quiet melancholy. It’s neither horror in the traditional sense nor fantasy in the cheerful one – it drifts somewhere in between, like a half-remembered bedtime story. That in-between is exactly what makes it so haunting. | © Playism

Alice Madness Returns — Alice: Madness Returns (2011)

*Alice: Madness Returns* takes the familiar trappings of Wonderland and pulls them through the lens of gothic horror. Alice, scarred by trauma, finds herself battling twisted versions of Carroll’s creations: tea parties become battlefields, card soldiers warp into grotesque monsters, and the Queen towers as a nightmarish boss. Combat mixes hack-and-slash with platforming, but it’s the art direction – lush, eerie, and often grotesque – that burns itself into memory. This isn’t a whimsical trip; it’s a descent into a mind where madness and magic are inseparable. | © Electronic Arts

Cropped imagen 2025 09 03 194440280 — Alice in Wonderland - Nintendo DS (2010)

Handheld adaptations of blockbuster movies usually aim low, but this one took a more curious path. Instead of mimicking the film beat for beat, the developers leaned into perspective tricks and puzzle design that made clever use of the DS hardware. The dual screens became a stage for shifting camera angles, flipping the world around as if Wonderland itself were trying to play a prank on the player. Its art style softened Burton’s grim tones, landing closer to a storybook brought to life. The result isn’t flawless, but it’s more inventive than anyone expected from a licensed title. | © Disney Interactive Studios

Cropped imagen 2025 09 03 195117061 — American McGee’s Alice (2000)

The late ’90s were full of shooters and action games, but few dared to wrap their levels in pure gothic strangeness. This reimagining of Wonderland took trauma as its starting point, rebuilding Carroll’s world as a fever dream where childhood icons turned monstrous. The Mad Hatter became grotesque, the Cheshire Cat a sly trickster, and every environment a blend of nightmare and fantasy. It wasn’t just about combat – it was about inhabiting a mind unraveling. Players didn’t just revisit Wonderland; they wandered through Alice’s broken psyche, one twisted corridor at a time. | © Electronic Arts

Cropped imagen 2025 09 03 195045689 — Dragon’s Lair II: Time Warp (1991)

Arcade players dropping coins into Don Bluth’s laserdisc sequel probably didn’t expect to tumble into Wonderland. Yet among the wild leaps through time and myth, Dirk the Daring found himself face-to-face with Carroll’s bizarre universe. Rendered in hand-drawn animation, it captured the chaos and nonsense of Wonderland in a way no polygonal graphics of the era could match. The gameplay demanded memorization and lightning-fast reflexes, but the real draw was seeing these characters spring to life with Saturday-morning cartoon energy. Wonderland only appears briefly, but the sequence remains one of the game’s most memorable detours. | © Sullivan Bluth Interactive Media

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Few stories have slipped into pop culture as deeply as Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Since Lewis Carroll first sent his curious heroine tumbling through the rabbit hole in 1865, Alice has inspired countless reinterpretations — from surreal films to psychedelic art to, of course, video games. And it makes perfect sense: Carroll’s world of talking cats, shifting logic, and dreamlike landscapes feels like it was designed for interactive storytelling long before video games existed.

In this list, we’re highlighting 10 great videogames based on Alice in Wonderland — a mix of cult classics, modern indies, and forgotten oddities. Whether you’re after dark psychological journeys, playful adventures, or surreal interactive experiments, these games will remind you just how far the rabbit hole can go.