{"id":67084,"date":"2026-05-25T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=67084"},"modified":"2026-05-25T16:25:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T07:25:12","slug":"after-3-years-false-alice-is-getting-new-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/after-3-years-false-alice-is-getting-new-content\/","title":{"rendered":"After spending 3 years on what players\u00a0assumed\u00a0was the brink of\u00a0service termination, Visual Arts\u2019\u00a0mobile game\u00a0The False\u00a0Alice\u00a0is\u00a0getting\u00a0new content"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In an&nbsp;announcement phrased so&nbsp;peculiarly&nbsp;it could&nbsp;almost&nbsp;be&nbsp;mistaken for&nbsp;bad news, the&nbsp;development team&nbsp;of Visual Arts\u2019&nbsp;dark fantasy mobile game&nbsp;<strong>The False&nbsp;Alice<\/strong>&nbsp;has apologized for \u201csuspending its&nbsp;<em>suspension<\/em>&nbsp;of&nbsp;content updates.\u201d In other words, following a three-year&nbsp;period of&nbsp;virtually no&nbsp;updates,&nbsp;The False&nbsp;Alice&nbsp;is finally&nbsp;receiving&nbsp;new game content, but&nbsp;for some reason,&nbsp;the developers are apologizing and distributing free&nbsp;in-game&nbsp;currency as compensation, to the amusement of players in Japan.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"ja\" dir=\"ltr\">\u3010\u91cd\u8981\u306a\u304a\u77e5\u3089\u305b\u3011<br><br>\u4eca\u5f8c\u306e\u300e\u507d\u308a\u306e\u30a2\u30ea\u30b9\u300f\u306b\u95a2\u3059\u308b\u91cd\u8981\u306a\u304a\u77e5\u3089\u305b\u3067\u3059\u3002<br>\u305c\u3072\u3054\u4e00\u8aad\u304f\u3060\u3055\u3044\u3002<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%E3%82%A4%E3%83%84%E3%82%A2%E3%83%AA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#\u30a4\u30c4\u30a2\u30ea<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%E5%81%BD%E3%82%8A%E3%81%AE%E3%82%A2%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#\u507d\u308a\u306e\u30a2\u30ea\u30b9<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/np4YehINQj\">pic.twitter.com\/np4YehINQj<\/a><\/p>&mdash; \u507d\u308a\u306e\u30a2\u30ea\u30b9\u3000\u516c\u5f0f\u30a2\u30ab\u30a6\u30f3\u30c8 (@itsuwari_alice) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/itsuwari_alice\/status\/2058140897452126598?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 23, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>To provide some background,&nbsp;The False&nbsp;Alice\u2019s developers&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20230803-20472\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">announced&nbsp;in July 2023<\/a>&nbsp;that they&nbsp;would stop releasing&nbsp;new content&nbsp;for the game.&nbsp;Unlike many live-service titles though, they&nbsp;didn\u2019t&nbsp;shut&nbsp;the game&nbsp;down&nbsp;for&nbsp;good.&nbsp;Servers&nbsp;have been kept&nbsp;in an operational state under the condition that&nbsp;revenue from in-app purchases continues&nbsp;to cover operational costs. To make this happen, Visual Arts&nbsp;implemented a&nbsp;live counter in the game that displays&nbsp;to all players&nbsp;how much in-game currency&nbsp;is&nbsp;being spent, and even revealed a full breakdown of how much it cost to run the game&nbsp;per month&nbsp;(1.95 million yen or about&nbsp;$13,600 USD&nbsp;at the time,&nbsp;including the cloud server fee, maintenance, chat systems etc.). The developers also added a \u201cfundraising store\u201d where players&nbsp;can&nbsp;spend&nbsp;gacha&nbsp;money&nbsp;to directly&nbsp;support development,&nbsp;giving them a way to keep the game online.&nbsp;Ever&nbsp;since, they\u2019ve&nbsp;been making regular&nbsp;updates on whether&nbsp;they\u2019d&nbsp;reached&nbsp;the amount&nbsp;needed&nbsp;for server&nbsp;for the month.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Given that&nbsp;The False Alice&nbsp;has&nbsp;practically been&nbsp;on life-support&nbsp;all these years, many believed it was approaching&nbsp;an&nbsp;imminent&nbsp;end-of-services&nbsp;announcement, so news of&nbsp;the upcoming \u201cValkyrias&nbsp;Saga\u201d&nbsp;content update has come as a welcome surprise to players.&nbsp;Why the developers chose to announce it as a regretful \u201csuspension of suspension of updates\u201d is a mystery, but the approach has&nbsp;definitely succeeded&nbsp;in generating buzz&nbsp;for the title.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1277\" height=\"717\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1277px) 100vw, 1277px\" src=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20260525-67084-001.jpg\" alt=\"The False Alice Retold Tale\" class=\"wp-image-67088\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20260525-67084-001.jpg 1277w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20260525-67084-001-380x213.jpg 380w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20260525-67084-001-768x431.jpg 768w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile,&nbsp;The False&nbsp;Alice is set to&nbsp;get a full-priced&nbsp;visual novel adaptation titled False Alice: Retold Tale, coming to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/4013270\/The_False_Alice_Retold_Tale\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Steam<\/a>&nbsp;in the fall of 2026 with English language support.&nbsp;The project was funded through a massively successful&nbsp;crowdfunding&nbsp;campaign on CAMPFIRE, which amassed over $400 thousand dollars&nbsp;or&nbsp;1,283% of its goal.&nbsp;Much like the original mobile game\u2019s main scenario, the upcoming title depicts the story of flawed girls,&nbsp;\u201cFailures\u201d who were born&nbsp;in the process of creating&nbsp;the protagonists of fairy tales&nbsp;and&nbsp;aim&nbsp;to become \u201cthe real thing.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;False&nbsp;Alice mobile game is available for&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/jp\/app\/%E5%81%BD%E3%82%8A%E3%81%AE%E3%82%A2%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9\/id1463005650\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">iOS<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=jp.co.product.itsuali\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Android<\/a>&nbsp;in Japan.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The developers of dark fantasy mobile game Itsuwari no Alice (The False Alice) have &#8220;apologized&#8221; for breaking the title&#8217;s three-year content hiatus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":67087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-67084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-japan-related-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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