LISA: The Painful overview

Overview

LISA: The Painful comes from Dingaling Productions and is published by Serenity Forge. It arrived on Steam on Dec 15, 2014, and it sits naturally among Single-player, Steam Achievements, Steam Trading Cards, Partial Controller Support, Steam Cloud, and Family Sharing. SteamPulse tracks it across Windows, macOS, Linux, and Steam so readers get a quick useful snapshot, not just a wall of numbers.

Players and reviews

LISA: The Painful's latest SteamPulse observation recorded 38 players at 22 September 2026 - 19:03:15 UTC, with a tracked peak near 457. This peak is the highest value in the available SteamPulse record and may not include activity before tracking began. Player reaction is 95% positive across 15,008 reviews.

Language and system requirements

LISA: The Painful is available in 12 languages including:

4 regional rating boards including esrb, pegi, usk, and crl

Sales, recommendations, and streams

LISA: The Painful has sold up to 532,000 units and has 13,137 Steam recommendations. The estimated VGI revenue is $4,000,000. On Twitch, 0 streamers are live with around 0 total watchers.

LISA: The Painful overview details

LISA: The Painful combines live player counts with reviews, pricing, platform support, Store metadata, dated player history, media, recent news, and related games.

Steam Store description

LISA: The Painful - Definitive Edition is the miserable, hilarious RPG of your wildest nightmares. Undertake a relentless journey through the post-apocalyptic wasteland of Olathe. Beneath its charming exterior is a world full of disgust and moral desolation, where you will learn what kind of person you are by being FORCED to make choices that permanently affect the gameplay. Make sacrifices to keep your party members alive, whether it's taking a beating for them, losing limbs, or some other inhuman torture. In this world, you will learn that being selfish and heartless is the only way to survive... The Definitive Edition brings new content and nightmares to the game with HD graphics, 120 FPS mode, new party member campfire conversations, updated battle systems, new border art overlays, new music, music player (including music from LISA: The First), Painless (Story) mode, and new secrets to explore. - 100+ unique character battles. - Visible character sacrifices that affect your stats and attacks (removing arms, eyes, scratches). - Recruit up to 30 party members in towns and camps. - Make ruthless choices that permanently affect towns, characters, and lives. - Participate in white-knuckle shopping cart races, extreme weight lifting, and other minigames. - Bet your party members on Russian Roulette for huge profit, but permanently lose them if they die. - Listen to your favorite tracks in the music player, which also includes music from LISA: The First. - Discover countless secrets hidden throughout Olathe. - Play Painful mode for an extra challenge and unique enemies, or Pa…

SteamPulse editorial summary

LISA: The Painful is listed as a game with $19.99. It supports Windows, macOS, and Linux, belongs to Single-player, Steam Achievements, Steam Trading Cards, Partial Controller Support, Steam Cloud, and Family Sharing, and is associated with Adventure, Indie, and RPG. SteamPulse's latest observation records 38 players at 22 September 2026 - 19:03:15 UTC, a tracked peak of 457, and 95% positive reviews.

Overview tags

Dark HumorRPGStory RichPsychological HorrorPost-apocalypticRPGMakerIndieChoices MatterPixel GraphicsDarkJRPGAdventureSingleplayerParty-Based RPG2D

Content descriptors

depictions of mature language, violence, gore, sexual assault/non-consensual sex, drugs, alcohol abuse, and suicide.

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Support and legal notes

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