I thought about continuing my journey through Alice: Madness Returns, but ended up deciding to travel even further back in time to play the game that started it all. American McGee’s Alice. I never knew that it ran on idTech 3! The same engine Quake 3 ran on! What they did with it was impressive, for the era it came out in.
Made it to Skool before calling it quits. It feels a little janky to play, but I am getting used to it. I also played a bit of it on my Steam Deck earlier. It does a weird glitch where the game window is larger than the screen, it’s also upside down and backwards. Binding the alt and enter keys to one of the back paddles fixed it though, and it handled controller play quite nicely.
There’s something about the darker setting of Alice in this old engine that makes it even creepier than the sequel, in a good way. It gives it a darker, grittier feel.