{"rewrite":{"id":"r_f885203756467c28c7ef1250","clusterId":"c_8ed7a5725ede5cee116ef001","slug":"alice-and-the-other-side-opens-on-steam-with-99-percent-positive-reviews","model":"deepseek-v4-1-flash","headline":"Alice and the Other Side Opens on Steam With 99 Percent Positive Reviews","summary":"Hanamiriro's Alice and the Other Side launched on PC via Steam on October 16 through publisher 2P Games, with Japanese in-game text. The single-player card adventure sets Alice in a fairy-tale world built from cards arranged on a 3x2 grid. Steam user reviews sit at Very Positive, with 99 percent of 171 reviews positive. Enemies can be fought, observed, greeted, or bribed, and the developer says it will keep patching.","whyItMatters":"The card adventure's early reception suggests players are responding to a design where combat is optional and sneaking past a fight counts as a solution, not a failure state.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eThe field is six cards on a 3x2 grid. Scenery and character cards make up the board, and action and item cards come from the hand. Dragging one onto the other produces reactions, opens new location and character cards, and lets players combine gathered materials into tools or spend skill points on ability cards.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEncounters have multiple exits. Besides attacking, Alice can observe an opponent or interact with them directly, from a greeting to an elbow strike to slipping a hallucinogenic mushroom to a merchant. Violent or thieving choices raise notoriety and change how the opponent responds. The picture-book visuals give way to unsettling cards and CG scenes as the story moves, and psychological horror runs alongside the Lewis Carroll imagery. The release sale runs until October 30 at 945 yen, 10 percent off.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"Alice and the Other Side lets enemies be greeted or bribed instead of fought, and 99 percent of 171 Steam reviews are positive. Hanamiriro built a card RPG where the pacifist route is a design choice, not a difficulty setting.","twitterPost":"Alice and the Other Side lets you bribe or greet enemies rather than fight. Hanamiriro made non-combat a real path, and Steam reviews back it.","threadsPost":"Alice and the Other Side offers fight, observe, greet, or bribe as routes past an enemy. Hanamiriro built the card RPG around avoiding combat, and 99 percent of 171 Steam reviews are positive. That ratio suggests the non-combat path works as a system, not a gimmick.","newsletterBlurb":"Hanamiriro's Alice and the Other Side arrived on Steam October 16 via 2P Games, and 99 percent of its 171 user reviews are positive. The card adventure arranges the fairy-tale world on a 3x2 grid and gives every encounter several solutions besides combat. The developer has already patched puzzle difficulty, subquest steps, and autosave points, with more updates planned. The release sale runs until October 30.","attributionJson":"[{\"source\":\"Automaton\",\"url\":\"https://automaton-media.com/articles/newsjp/20261019-474248/\",\"title\":\"Steam's 'Alice and the Other Side' Hits 99% Positive Reviews: A 'Dangerously Wild TRPG-Style Adventure' in a Fairy-Tale World Gains Popularity - A Free, Unsettling Fairy Tale Where You Can 'Win Without Fighting, the Sneaky Way'\"}]","lintFlagsJson":null,"lintHits":0,"costUsd":0,"inputTokens":4612,"outputTokens":720,"status":"published","repairAttempts":0,"nextRepairAt":null,"factsAttemptedAt":1792386441,"createdAt":"2026-10-19T05:02:54.000Z","publishedAt":"2026-10-19T05:06:11.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-19T05:06:11.000Z"},"cluster":{"id":"c_8ed7a5725ede5cee116ef001","canonicalTitle":"Steamで好評率99％『アリスと彼岸』、メルヘン世界で“物騒すぎるTRPG風冒険”が熱い人気に。「戦わずズルく勝てる」自由で不穏なおとぎ話","representativeArticleId":"a_71bfc51a82a9f2b3fcdc0baf","sourceCount":1,"writtenSourceCount":1,"writeAttempts":0,"isSolo":true,"entitiesJson":"{\"anime_titles\":[],\"manga_titles\":[],\"work_titles\":[\"Alice and the Other Side\"],\"studios\":[\"2P Games\",\"Hanamiriro\"],\"people\":[],\"type\":\"release\",\"domain\":\"games\",\"is_roundup\":false}","contentType":"news","status":"published","firstSeenAt":"2026-10-19T03:50:32.000Z","lastSeenAt":"2026-10-19T03:50:32.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-19T05:06:10.000Z"},"attribution":[{"source":"Automaton","url":"https://automaton-media.com/articles/newsjp/20261019-474248/","title":"Steamで好評率99％『アリスと彼岸』、メルヘン世界で“物騒すぎるTRPG風冒険”が熱い人気に。「戦わずズルく勝てる」自由で不穏なおとぎ話"}],"entities":{"anime_titles":[],"manga_titles":[],"work_titles":["Alice and the Other Side"],"studios":["2P Games","Hanamiriro"],"people":[],"type":"release","domain":"games","is_roundup":false},"keyFacts":null}