LISA: The Painful
BANGER · RPG · 2014
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $7.99.
- Cost per hourS
- $0.74/hr
- ReviewsS
- 95% of 15,235
- Critics
- 77 players 18 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 1% RPG
Score at full price
Score today
Watch this gameAlready a BANGER on sale. Pick a lower price.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 10.8h
- To 100%
- 25.5h 2.4x the story
- Finish
- 22% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 68
Price and sales
- Sales
- 69 on record
- Typical cut
- 40% off
- Steam low
- $2.49 December 2015
- Sale every
- 39d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 45 now
- Recent reviews
- 94% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 10% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 99% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
89% start to 22% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
The lowest price on record is $2.49, set in December 2015. Across all 69 discounts in the 12 years tracked, the median cut is 40 percent, about 6 weeks apart.
Its score sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games closest to it, Kindergarten 2 ($14.99, scores 73) and Sultan's Game ($19.99, scores 91) both come in lower.
On this data it would still be a BANGER at $14.80.
More about LISA: The Painful
Critics scored it 77. Players sit 18 points higher at 95 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Steam's global achievement data puts 22 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 18. Of the 564 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 6 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to October 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,872 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 2,229 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 72 percent of the 715 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 10.8 hours. Doing everything runs 26, 2.4 times as long.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
I don't know how I feel. I feel both hollow and like my heart is swollen with sadness at the same time. From like the second half onwards, I felt both of these every second and then occasionally I would laugh my ass off, because in addition to being heartbreaking, this game is hilarious. I don't think any game has effected me as deeply as this and entrenched itself as deep in my head.
2 more reviews
I've had an addiction to caffeine (mostly energy drinks) for years. After seeing what Joy did to people in this game, it convinced me to quit.
this is one of the best stories i have experinced, awesoeme music. my only gripe is the battle text moves to fast. this game is def worth it. it will move you
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
The miserable journey of a broken man...
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 1024 x 768 pixels or higher desktop resolution, 799 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
LISA: The Painful scores 96/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/335670/lisa-the-painfulReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 13, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.