Video Game / Bridge to Another World

Bridge to Another World is a hidden object games series developed by 4Friends Games (later renamed Friendly Fox) and distributed by Big Fish Games.

Each game involves the protagonist being transported to a magical realm and needing to find a way to get back home. Later additions would be based on classic fantasy novels.

The games in the series

• Bridge to Another World: Burnt Dreams - the first game in the series. You play as an unnamed man who is determined to find his little brother after he was snatched by a monstrous mist more than twenty years ago. Along the way, you must stop the evil Countess, who keeps him painting creatures she has learned to burn into reality! Can you face your fears and help your brother finally escape the mysterious island where his dreams come to life - or will the whole world enter the mist?
• Bridge to Another World: The Others - the second game in the series. You play as Jane, who has devoted her life to hunting a mysterious being known only as Other after it cursed her brother Jace. After years of fighting, you may have finally found the way to the world where they come from. But there may be more than the Others lurking beyond this portal.
• Bridge to Another World: Alice in Shadowland - based on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. You play as Alice, who is kidnapped and brought to a curious place called Shadowland. The person who abducted you claims you are the beleaguered kingdom's prophesied savior. All you want is to get back home, but when your shadow is stolen, you are suddenly trapped in Shadowland for better or worse. Now you must help a group of rebels fight a vindictive Princess and her cruel cronies.
• Bridge to Another World: Escape From Oz - based on The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. You play as Dorothy, who is transported by a tornado to the extraordinary land of Oz. Now you find yourself in the middle of a fierce competition controlled by the mysterious Great Wizard. To earn your way back home, you and your little dog Toto must explore the four corners of Oz, facing enemies, obstacles, and puzzles at every turn!
• Bridge to Another World: Alice Through the Looking Glass - based on Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass. You once again play as Alice, who is brought to a strange place called Chessland, where to get out, she had to survive the deadly game instigated by the rivalry between the Red King and the White Queen. Can Alice escape the intrigue of the warring rulers and find a way home?
• Bridge to Another World: Gulliver Syndrome - based on Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels. You play as an unnamed woman who has been plagued by strange dreams after finding a porcelain statue. What starts as an ordinary search quickly leads you to another world, one where you’re a giant pursued by miniature people! But these small hunters are anything but cute as you try to find Gulliver, your only known hope for survival.
• Bridge to Another World: Secrets of the Nutcracker - based on The Nutcracker. You play as Marie, who is visiting Drosselmeyer’s toy workshop for the first Christmas since childhood. However, your childhood friend, Fritz, is missing. Soon, the clues lead you to Spielland, the toy castle they imagined playing in together as children. But Spielland was just pretend ... or was it?
• Bridge to Another World: Endless Game - the eighth game in the series. You play a mother whose children and their friend are pulled into a magic board game and must play the game herself to save them. Traversing through each world (from previous games, no less), she has to not only survive the game, but also uncover the origins behind it.
• Bridge to Another World: Christmas Flight - the ninth game in the series based on Peter Pan. During the Christmas season, you are brought to Christmasland (a holiday stand-in for Neverland) by your nephew, who needs help contending with his Shadow that went rogue and is wrecking the holiday. You'll need all the help you get to stop the Shadow from destroying the Christmas spirit.
• Bridge to Another World: Cursed Clouds
• Bridge to Another World: A Trail of Breadcrumbs

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Burnt Dreams

• I Will Find You: The plot of the story with the protagonist trying to find his brother who was abducted by a magical mist twenty years ago.

The Others

• Hunter of His Own Kind: It is later revealed that Jane is an Other, the very thing that her and her brother, Jace were hunting the entire time.

Alice in Shadowland

• All for Nothing: The main reason why Alice sealed away her husband so her daughter doesn't become like him because of his influence. Their daughter still grows up to become a tyrant just like her father.
• An Arm and a Leg / Eye Scream: The Hatter lost an arm and an eye during the final battle against the King of Hearts.
• Age Lift: Unlike the original Lewis Carroll's Alice who is a young pre-teen girl, this version of Alice is a woman in her early/mid-thirties with a husband and son.
• Fallen Hero: In the past, the Hatter was once a hero and a member of the Order that fought against the tyranny of the King of Hearts and and in the past helped stop the civil war in Chessland. In the present day, he now serves the tyrannical Princess Carroll without any of the noticeable noble qualities he possessed in the past ever showing.
• God Save Us from the Queen!: Averted with the original Alice who was a benevolent ruler but played straight with her daughter Princess Carroll who rules Shadowland with an iron fist.
• Like Father, Like Son: Despite Alice efforts, her daughter Carroll ends up growing up to be a tyrant like her father.
• Playing Card Motifs: The whole game is riddled with references to playing cards.
• Sealed Evil in a Can: In a final bid to save Wonderland from her tyrannical husband, the original Alice sealed the King of Hearts inside a bottle.

Escape from Oz

• All Just a Dream: Dorothy thinks her adventure in Oz was just a nap dream - but then she notices the silver shoes on her feet ...
• Age Lift: Unlike the original L. Frank Baum's Dorothy who is a young pre-teen girl, this version of Dorothy is a woman in her late thirties/early forties with two young children.
• Gender Flip: The original male Cowardly Lion has been switched to a young cowardly girl who wears a lion skin.
• Laser-Guided Karma: Frank is turned into a statuette by his own dagger after dropping it on his foot during a struggle with Toto.

Through the Looking Glass

• Chess Motifs: The whole game is riddled with references to chess.
• Dressing as the Enemy: In order to enter The White Castle undetected, Alice dons some White Knight armor.
• Freudian Excuse: The White Queen and Red King were born to a seemly happy and normal family, but they lost their parents to a sudden shipwreck at a young age and developed a rivalry that evolved into hatred with none of the adults in their life stopping them. The supposed death of their beloved younger sister during one such quarrel was the last straw with each other blaming her death on the other, evolving into a full-blown bloody civil war for the throne of Chessland.
• Magic Mirror: One right at the beginning transports Alice to Chessland. Another is used to get her back home after the final battle.
• Meaningful Name: The Red King's real name is Rowan, a tree that produces red berries. The White Queen's real name is Albina, a feminine version of the name 'Albus' which means 'white'. Finally, Princess Scarlett's name is derived from 'scarlet', a shade of red.
• Missing Child: During a quarrel between the White Queen and the Red King when they were younger, their beloved younger sister slipped off a balcony to her supposed death without anyone noticing until it was too late.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!: In the bonus chapter Hatter and Cheshire helped the King of Hearts rise to power, setting up the events for Alice in Shadowland.
• Polar Opposite Twins: The Red King and The White Queen.
• Stealth Sequel: Prequel to Alice in Shadowland. In the bonus chapter, it is later revealed that the Hatter and Cheshire ended up being transported to Shadowland where they got trapped and unintentionally helped the King of Hearts gain power, laying the foundation for the third game.
• Sweet Polly Oliver: In order to protect Princess Scarlett, the rebels dress her up as a boy and call her 'Jack'.
• Team Switzerland: Cheshire claims that the rebels support neither the Reds or the Whites - they only want peace to return to Chessland.
• Trapped in Another World: In the bonus chapter, Cheshire and the Hatter ended up transported from Chessland to Shadowland, finding themselves unable to get home.
• Ungrateful Bastard: Despite saving a White Knight from the deadly roses in exchange for the bridge handle to the White Castle, said White Knight immediately attacks Alice because she's a red pawn.

Gulliver Syndrome

• Affectionate Nickname: Gulliver lovingly calls Rose "Thumbelina".
• Bittersweet Ending: The patients sent to Liliput, Gulliver and the protagonist managed to escape, but Rose had been shrunk by her father's potion, which caused her to turn into a statue.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: The Governor really did love Rose though his actions drove her away and, in the end, it was his actions that caused Rose to become a statue.
• Fantastic Racism: The Liliputians, under their mayor, are very discriminate against "giants", that being humans like Gulliver and anyone unlucky to end up in Liliput.
• Taken for Granite: Any Liliputian that is taken to the human world becomes a porcelain statue.

Secrets of the Nutcracker

• Adaptational Villainy: Geppetto, and subsequently Pinocchio in the bonus chapter, are more antagonistic than their counterparts from Collodi's book.
• Emergency Transformation: Fritz was transformed into the Nutcracker to save his life from a serious wound.
• Living Toys: Characters encountered are living toys given refuge from being forgotten or harmed.
• Ship Tease: Marie and the Mouse King
• Toy Transmutation: This happened to Fritz during his time in the toy world.
• Wicked Toymaker: Geppetto

Endless Game

• Even Evil Has Standards: While the Governor is a jerk as he was in Gulliver Syndrome, when this version realized that Zoey is a mother who has children, he allowed her to leave with her son, so her children won't be without their mother.
• Pet the Dog: When the Governor realized that Zoey just wants her son back and have other children that are waiting for her, the Governor, reminded of his own love and the loss of his own daughter, allowed Zoey and her son to leave without issue as he didn't want Zoey's children to lose their mother.

Christmas Flight

• Brainwashed and Crazy: Each resident of Christmasland is corrupted by the Shadow.
• Recycled with a Gimmick: The story of Peter Pan with a Christmas twist.

Cursed Clouds

A Trail of Breadcrumbs

• Adaptational Villainy: Hansel
• False Friend: Hansel befriended Gretel as part of a plot with his father to find the magic crystal and acquire its magic powers for themselves.
• I Choose to Stay: Gretel can choose to stay in her sisters' world now that she remembers who her family really is and actually possesses magic abilities herself.
• Impersonation Gambit: In order to gain access to the town and enter the Order's headquarters, Gretel had to disguise herself as one of them.
• Long-Lost Relative: Gretel is actually the younger sister of Cornelia and Selina, who was transported to a different world after the crystal broke apart.
• Mineral MacGuffin: The magic crystal, which gave the sisters their magical powers.
• Witch Hunt: Hansel and his father, Wilhelm, started a witch hunt on Cornelia and Selina with the intent on acquiring the power of the crystals.
• The Witch Hunter: Hansel, who founded the Order of Hunters along with his father.