Alicemare Fairy tales with teeth

Allen has lost his memory and his parents, so he ends up at a home for lost children run by a man known only as Teacher. The other kids each have their quirks: Letty and Rick are bright twins, Chelsy hugs her teddy bears, Joshua is obsessed with frogs, and Stella watches everything with a face that gives nothing away. Then someone mentions a rumor about a voice calling for help upstairs at night, and Allen goes looking. What he finds pulls him into a dream world where a White Rabbit and a Cheshire Cat are supposed to guide him, though the Rabbit shows little interest in actually guiding. The setup feels familiar, like a story you half remember, and that is exactly the point.

You explore, solve puzzles and pick up notes that reveal the stories piece by piece, and the game presents them like pages of a picture book. The writing is deliberately fragmented, so fitting the pieces together takes a little deduction on your part. The music carries a lot of it: a soundtrack that is soothing one moment and quietly sad the next, and you can even sit down at the pianos scattered through the world and listen to Allen play. It is cute and creepy at once, and the ending lands harder than the pixel art ever lets on.