Shall we date?: Guilty Alice

About

Shall We Date Guilty Alice is a mobile visual novel where your choices shape a tangled love story wrapped in a mystery. You play as a woman thrust into a surreal courtroom drama in a Wonderland-inspired world, accused of breaking a magical heart. To avoid execution, you must rebuild it within a month by navigating relationships with five distinct suitors, each linked to classic Alice in Wonderland characters. The game alternates between this fantasy realm and your everyday life, blending dating mechanics with puzzle-like decisions that affect the story’s outcome. What sets it apart is its mix of romance and high stakes. The narrative weaves together personal growth, moral dilemmas, and a race against time, with multiple endings tied to how well you balance affection and strategy. Players appreciate the app’s compact format for casual sessions, though deeper story threads reward careful attention. While not graphically intensive, the character designs and branching dialogue keep engagement high, making it a steady favorite in the visual novel space since its 2014 release.

Storyline

When you visit a small shop full of cute little things run by a mysterious man with a cat-shaped hood, you find a little jewelry box. You open the beautiful box to find a heart-shaped jewel inside... But the moment you touch it, the jewel shatters to pieces. That night, you have a strange dream. Looking down upon you who are made to stand in a defendant’s seat in a courtroom is a queen dressed in red, calling you Alice; there is that shopkeeper with the cat-shaped hood, too! The Red Queen says to you: “Guilty Alice! How dare you steal and break my precious ‘Heart’! You must successfully produce a ‘Heart’ and bring it to me within ONE MONTH. If you fail producing a ‘Heart’, then that day will be the day your head rolls!” The next morning, when you wake up in the real world, you notice five handsome men standing before you—The Joker, the White Rabbit, the Mad Hatter, the Dormouse and the Lizard. They are the men sent by the Red Queen to grow a Heart, a crystallization of love’s awakening only women are able to make, with you. However, you are also told that once the Heart is taken away, you will no longer have any memory left of the man you have come to love. Traveling between night and day, between Wonderland and the real world—will you be able to grow a loving Heart?