Alice Asylum was originally envisioned as being primarily a chronological prequel to American McGee's Alice, however, the newest draft has completely scrapped this idea, showing that it is actually set after Alice: Madness Returns; while the player begins the game as a 13-year-old Alice in Wonderland, Alice matures as the game progresses to become her current adult self in Madness Returns, and so the player plays as an adult Alice for the vast majority of the game. 