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The climactic fight is rumored to be against “Deino the Dread,” a heavyweight who doesn’t use her shared eye to see the future, but to see every possible bad ending for Alice at once, weaponizing despair as a debuff. Graias Alice: The Cage Fighter is not for everyone. It is slow, poetic, and brutally punishing. The control scheme is deliberately obtuse (mapping the “focus” function to a button you have to hold with your pinky). The art style is aggressively ugly-beautiful.

And she has one tooth.

drops digitally this October for PC, Switch, and toasters with screens. Check your local fighting game tournament for the “One Tooth, No Mercy” side bracket. Searching for- Graias Alice The Cage Fighter in...

Because in the cage, at least, the future hits back. The climactic fight is rumored to be against

“Alice believes that if she can prove her own mortality—if she can be beaten, broken, and forced to tap out—the curse of foresight will leave her,” Singh explains. “But every time she almost loses, her survival instinct kicks in. She bites down harder. She sees further. The tragedy of the Graias is that they cannot die, but they also cannot stop suffering.” The control scheme is deliberately obtuse (mapping the

“I got tired of the ‘sexy, young Oracle’ trope,” Marchese explains, wiping chalk off her hands in her Los Angeles studio. “I wanted a protagonist who has earned her violence. The Graiae share an eye because they can’t agree on reality. They share a tooth because they can’t agree on a voice. Alice? She got tired of waiting for her turn to see. She stole the eye, swallowed the tooth, and ran away to the mortal world to find a place where sharing isn’t caring—it’s a weakness.”

The air in the amateur MMA warehouse is thick with sweat, stale beer, and the metallic tang of blood. In the center of the cage, a fighter is warming up. She is ancient. Not in the weathered, worn-down way of a journeyman boxer, but in the literal, mythological sense. Her name is Alice.