10 Video Game Sequels That Went Super Dark

In the year 2000, game designer American McGee, who had previously worked at iD Software on Doom and Quake titles released the game Alice. American McGee's Alice was a third person action adventure game based on Alice in Wonderland but featured a much gloomier, violent version of Lewis Carroll's classic tales.

You took control of Alice, whose family are killed in a house fire and ends up in a psychiatric clinic, in which she takes a mental journey to Wonderland which is twisted by her fragmented mind. Can't get much darker than that, right?

Wrong. In the follow up to this game, Alice: Madness Returns, players find themselves spiraling back down the mental rabbit hole into Wonderland once again, this time encountering a new evil force of monsters, creatures and villains.

This game featured much more terrifying enemy design such as the particularly terrifying Dollmaker, who sports multiple extra limbs and a dark substance oozing from his hollow eye cavities. Alice: Madness Returns also twisted everyday items into deadly weapons such as the pepper grinder gatling gun, a hobby-horse hammer and the teapot cannon which is used to burn enemies alive. Yeah.