Review: Literature Time! Alice is Dead - Chapter 1 (2009)

Most of the people here would know Alice in Wonderland: yes, the story of this young lady Alice where she fell inside a rabbit hole and went to the magical place called Wonderland (*Spoiler*Which is actually just her dream, or is it?*Spoiler*). We all will know the characters that are portrayed in the story, there's Alice, there's the White Rabbit, the Queen, Mad Hatter, The Chesire Cat and others.

We would all somehow think that a game based on a children's movie back in the 1950s (and a book made much earlier than that) would then be somewhat created into a kid-friendly game, with all the minigames and educational scripts and some other kiddy stuffs.

But this game just proves everybody wrong... Enter:

Alice is Dead - Chapter 1

...With a title Alice is Dead, and the creepy background, there would be no way that this would end up being a kid-friendly game...

Alice is Dead is a mystery puzzle solving game that induces the minds of the players to the somewhat cryptic story behind the death of Alice. The point-and-click game starts with the mystery of not knowing who the main character is, and it smacks the face right up with the image of the skeleton of Alice.

Yes, that Lady... is Alice...

The game requires a lot of puzzle-solving that needs to be done and through it's somewhat blur gameplay, a lot of thinking is required. For instance you need to pick the lock on the blue door to go through the next phase, escaping the room via the box.

...Yeah, that kindof cryptic... I had to refer to the walkthrough for some parts also...

The goal of the game is to find out what is going on, and why did something happen, and that something got Alice killed, who is the main character that are stuck with Alice at that time?

It's all nothing but a mystery... which will unfold in time when the story progresses... and with the creepy background music playing... the ambient atmosphere of dystopia Wonderland, will enchant you in ways it may, or it may not supposed to be...

Play Alice is Dead - Chapter 1 in Kongregate Here!

PS. The main character is the bibirthawte, now you need to just unscramble it.