American McGee says the religious successor to his Alice sequence will hook up with its storyline not directly.
Again in 2023, McGee instructed followers to cease asking him a few new Alice sport after the sport designer claimed that EA had quashed his plans to make a 3rd title within the cult sequence.
In December 2025, nevertheless, McGee introduced on X that he was engaged on a sport based mostly on his Plushie Dreadfuls line of plush rabbits, and that it might be a “religious successor” to Alice which might hook up with its story not directly.
In a brand new interview with GamesRadar, McGee has now reiterated his plan to tie the Plushie Dreadfuls sport to Alice and its sequel Alice: Insanity Returns, and accomplish that in a means that doesn’t annoy the Alice IP holder, Digital Arts.
“I’ve made an specific level to hyperlink the beginning of the Plushie Dreadfuls sport with the tip of Insanity Returns,” McGree defined, “and in doing that, you [can] name {that a} religious sequel.
“There’s a sort of apparent overlap, however not one which will get us in bother with the legal professionals.”
McGee defined that the Plushie Dreadfuls sport – which stars a protagonist referred to as James – would “obtain a sure stage of closure” for him, and he hopes it is going to do the identical for followers of the Alice sequence who had been hoping for a 3rd sport.
“Alice, in some methods, she was drawing off of previous experiences that I had as a toddler,” McGee mentioned. “With writing the character for James, it’s a really related factor. He’s an orphan, however he’s been adopted into this sort of darkish, evil household.”
In 2023, McGee defined to followers that “EA owns Alice they usually management it”, and that the writer had turned down the chance to make his deliberate third sport within the sequence, Alice: Asylum.
“If you wish to do one thing with the IP, you might be free to try this – similar to you might be with all different IPs – however you get into bother if you begin making an attempt to promote the stuff you create,” he wrote on the time. “Further questions on these items needs to be directed at EA. I actually need some area from Alice and questions associated to it.”
McGee’s profession began at id Software program, the place he was a stage designer on quite a few video games within the Doom and Quake sequence.
After leaving id he joined Digital Arts and have become inventive director of American McGee’s Alice, a darkish and violent tackle the Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland novels launched in 2000.
In McGee’s sport, Alice’s household die in a home fireplace. 5 years later, whereas mendacity comatose in a psychiatric clinic, Alice mentally returns to Wonderland, which has been made to look surreal and disfigured by her thoughts.
The 2011 sequel Alice: Insanity Returns noticed Alice discharged from the clinic and dwelling in a house for mentally traumatised orphans. Persevering with to endure hallucinations of Wonderland, she enters it once more to face a brand new evil and discover out extra about her previous.
