About
American McGee's Alice is a dark psychological horror action-platformer developed by Rogue Entertainment and published by Electronic Arts in 2000, built on the id Tech 3 (Quake III) engine. The game reimagines Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland as a twisted nightmare, following a traumatized Alice who returns to a corrupted Wonderland to confront the Queen of Hearts and restore her sanity. Featuring imaginative level design, disturbing character redesigns, and fluid platforming combat, it became a cult classic. On Steam there is no standalone listing — the game is delivered as the 2011 HD remaster bundled inside Alice: Madness Returns (App 19680), launched from Alice1/bin/alice.exe.
Identity
Launch
- Binary
- Alice1/bin/alice.exe
- Options
- -RunningFromAlice2
- Needs files
- none beyond the binary
Proton
- Version
- GE-Proton
- Winetricks
- —
- ProtonDB
- ProtonDB Gold runs perfectly after tweaks
⚙ Setup notes
On Steam, American McGee's Alice is NOT a standalone app — it ships as the 2011 HD remaster bundled with Alice: Madness Returns (App 19680). The remaster's launcher is Alice1/bin/alice.exe. The recipe's steam_appid points at 19680 because that is the product that delivers the game. Two ways to run the bundled Alice1: (a) launch alice.exe with the -RunningFromAlice2 flag, or (b) install VorpalFix (github.com/Wemino/VorpalFix), which lets alice.exe launch independently and fixes the id Tech 3 widescreen crop, FOV, HUD stretch and FMV warping. VorpalFix is the recommended path on the Deck. For Proton/Linux, add WINEDLLOVERRIDES="winmm.dll=n,b" %command% to the launch options when using VorpalFix's winmm injector. Known quirks running Alice1 standalone: the title screen can appear zoomed/upside-down until you tab through the menu, and some users hit a hang on quit. Xbox controller works via a community Steam Input layout — recommended for this third-person platformer.
The one thing to know
Not a standalone Steam app: American McGee's Alice ships as the 2011 HD remaster bundled with Alice: Madness Returns (App 19680), launched from Alice1/bin/alice.exe. To run Alice1 by itself either launch alice.exe with -RunningFromAlice2, or install VorpalFix (github.com/Wemino/VorpalFix) which enables standalone launch and fixes the id Tech 3 widescreen crop/FOV/HUD; VorpalFix is the recommended path. For Proton add WINEDLLOVERRIDES="winmm.dll=n,b" %command% when using VorpalFix. Quirks: title screen can show zoomed/upside-down until you tab through the menu; some users report a hang on quit. Madness Returns itself is Platinum on ProtonDB; tier kept at gold here to reflect the rougher Alice1-standalone experience. Xbox controller works via a community Steam Input layout.
Community guides
Write-ups and threads from people who got this (or a similar) game running. deckport links to them — it doesn't reproduce them.
- store Alice: Madness Returns on Steam (includes Alice 1 free) ↗
- pcgamingwiki PCGamingWiki - American McGee's Alice ↗
- protondb ProtonDB - Alice: Madness Returns (App 19680, delivers Alice 1) ↗
- github VorpalFix - widescreen/FOV/HUD fix + standalone launch (GitHub) ↗
- steam Steam guide - American McGee's Alice / Alice1 on Steam Deck ↗
Get the artwork
deckport never hosts game images. Open this game on SteamGridDB, pick
the cover / hero / logo / icon you like, and drop them into the
game folder under .deckport-art/ before you push it to the
Deck. The importer files them under the right names automatically.
Run it on your Deck
Two files: the one-time importer (deckport.py) in your
Deck's home folder, and this game's install helper. Copy the game
into ~/Games and run the helper with Steam closed — it
writes the recipe (binary, launch options, Proton version)
and registers the shortcut with artwork.