While waiting for the hockey game to start last night I found myself with a half an hour to kill, and so logged on to Kongregate to pass the time. After stumbling through a few lists of games, I finally settled on a point and click adventure game entitled 'Alice is Dead' (chapter one).


The game follows the path of a twisted fairytale, spinning the classic Alice in Wonderland on its head and turning it into something far darker. You find yourself at the bottom of the rabbit hole with the skeletal remains of Alice lying before you, and you must figure out what happened and who you are.

The game is nicely drawn, with each location laid out cleanly. The music is fantastic, and despite looping through much of the game it just refused to get old. Game play is exactly what you would expect from a point and click puzzler: you find object in the environment, combine them with other objects, and use them to solve puzzles. While some items are hidden and some puzzle solutions are a bit silly, everything makes a strange sot of sense once you reason it out (or just plain guess).

In total chapter one of Alice is Dead took me half an hour to play through to completion, and although I suspected my identity all along, it was still fun to figure out the puzzles and half those suspicions confirmed. If you're a fan of the point and click genre then I highly recommend giving this game a world; if you hate this type of puzzler, then avoid it like the plague.