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LISA: The Painful
Developer Dingaling Productions
The miserable journey of a broken man... From the Steam store page
415 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Lemmy, Mastodon) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
91
LovedLoved
216 positive · 22 negative
95% range 86–94%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 216 | 22 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 16 | 1 | 151 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 4 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Overwhelmingly Positive
11,050 of 11,573 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
92% recommend · 205 yes, 18 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 223 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Overwhelmingly Positive (14,530 of 15,230 positive).
Players describe LISA: The Painful as a deeply unsettling and emotionally intense RPG that explores trauma, addiction, and moral decay. [1][2][3] Many reviewers praise its unique blend of dark humor and genuine despair, calling it a one-of-a-kind experience. [4][5][6] Some players find the game deliberately punishing and tedious, with one calling it the most hated game they've played. [7][8][9]
Liked
Representative posts
- [7]
I’ve disliked games before but I’ve never hated one as much as this, especially how it goes out of its way to say ‘♥♥♥♥ you’ to the player. It’ll deliberately waste your time and then laugh at you for wasting it. For instance, one area has a sign that says there’s something important high above. You climb up a rope for a very long time only to find a statue of someone giving you the middle finger. You want to jump …
- [4]
Lisa the Painful is a certified classic, that is aging like the finest of wines as time passes. I wholeheartedly believe it's one of those games EVERYONE has to experience in this lifetime and it's honestly a one in a million perfect story in my books. Being a direct followup of Lisa the First, a game that you have to at least watch a youtube breakdown so you understand what you're getting into, Lisa the painful …
- [14]
This game hates you. It will hurt you, it will insult you, it will punch you in the teeth, and you'll never be able to stop thinking about it for the rest of your life.
- [15]
This game was one of the worst video game experiences I've ever had. It punishes you all of the time. There are very few things that make you happy. However, it truly embodies the feelings of desolation and despair that one would feel in a post apocalyptic world. The feeling of addiction. Pain. Depression. It's wonderful. I hated every second of it. You should play this game.
- [1]
LISA: The Painful is a singular and deeply unsettling role-playing game developed by Dingaling Productions and published by Serenity Forge that stands apart from most of its genre through sheer emotional intensity and thematic boldness. What initially appears to be a retro-inspired 2D RPG quickly reveals itself as a harrowing exploration of trauma, obsession, addiction, and moral decay, wrapped in a world that …
Summarised from 34 of the 329 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 11, 2026. How summaries are made
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
92% of the 223 Steam reviewers we collected recommend LISA: The Painful. The complaint that keeps coming up: deliberately wastes player's time and frustrates. Deal-breaker or nitpick?
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60 of 415 · most liked firstAlaska has the fourth-highest number of federal workers per capita—fish & game, forestry, and more—their jobs are being cut under the excuse of “poor performance.” Lisa Murkowski knows that’s a lie—so why won’t she just say, it’s a lie. Collins, Burchett, and the rest are just giving lip service.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Lisa Cook Case Could Be the Whole Ball Game If the Supreme Court lets Trump replace Cook with a loyalist, he might soon achieve a full-blown takeover of the Federal Reserve.
neutral · AI labelView post →Lisa knows EXACTLY how the game works! Watch the newest episode of Game Changer - out now on @dropout.tv! 👇👇👇
neutral · AI labelView post →FOREVER IMMORTALIZED IN LOS ANGELES 🌟 Lisa Leslie’s statue is officially unveiled, honoring a legacy that changed the game forever.
neutral · AI labelView post →No surprises. Cassidy was never a “hard no” on Blanche. He just had to play the game so “palsy”Susan Collins and “all hat, no cattle” Lisa Murkowski, could vote no while aware their nay votes were for show only. Good God, y’all. Vote better! #DV1 #Voices4Victory #Pinks #SheShed #wtpBLUE
neutral · AI labelView post →UEFA fines Maccabi and bans them from a game Just waiting for Keir Starmer to say it's antisemitic For Shamaba Mahmood to join him And for Lisa Nandy to lie about it in parliament Shame on all three of them for conflating public safety with antisemitism
neutral · AI labelView post →Animations for a new Lisa act for the early game demo.
neutral · AI labelView post →Lisa: Whoever is a traitor here, you’re playing a blinding game. Linda: Thanks! #TheTraitors
neutral · AI labelView post →A career that changed the game. A legacy that will live forever. 💐 Later today, Lisa Leslie will be immortalized with a statue in Los Angeles. Watch the unveiling ceremony at 3:30pm/ET on the WNBA App.
neutral · AI labelView post →🚨TONIGHT! A new episode of Game Changer launches on @dropout.tv at 7pm ET / 4pm PT! Starring host @samreich.bsky.social, along with contestants: 🫂 Ally Beardsley 🫂 Zac Oyama 🫂 Lisa Gilroy Get ready for a very different kind of Game Changer episode... 🤫 #GameChanger
neutral · AI labelView post →Adapted the last comission for Lisa as a new position for the next main game update.
neutral · AI labelView post →Final Fantasy VII Ever Crisis 'The Story is Completed' illustration by Lisa Fujise, marking the end of story updates for the game set to end service on October 6, 2026. More about the update here: novacrystallis.com/2026/08/fina...
neutral · AI labelView post →Kiana Mai and Lisa Hanawalt REVEAL their fave Kaylin moments from the new Game Changer episode 😂 @kianamai.bsky.social
neutral · AI labelView post →Art for the CG when you first encounter Lisa in Love:99 In game it will scroll up, similar to the ending CGs in GBA Metroid
neutral · AI labelView post →History was made above the rim 🔥 In 2005, Lisa Leslie became the first player to dunk in WNBA All-Star Game history! #WNBAAllStar | AT&T
neutral · AI labelView post →Lisa Garland: closet cosplay edition 💉 #silenthill #lisagarland #cosplay #closetcosplay #konami
neutral · AI labelView post →With 3️⃣0️⃣ days left until Tip-Off, we’re throwin’ it back to a moment that forever changed the game. On July 3️⃣0️⃣, 2002, Lisa Leslie became the first player to dunk in a WNBA game! #WNBATipOff presented by @carmax.com
neutral · AI labelView post →I canNOT believe we have Rob RAUSCH and LISA RINNA making decisions in a game traitors is so deeply unserious like fuck all this #TheTraitorsUS
neutral · AI labelView post →It’s the same game she always plays. She’s taking turns voting no with Lisa Murkowski when it doesn’t matter.
neutral · AI labelView post →31 years ago today, Moe tried to get dirt on Bart and Lisa before their big pee wee hockey game. “Lisa on Ice” premiered November 13, 1994.
neutral · AI labelView post →Join me today for the Indie Game Awards at 3pm pacific, and the afterwards we'll be starting up Lisa the Joyful! See you at twitch.tv/patstaresat and youtube.com/patstaresat !
positive · AI labelView post →Lisa Murkowski sometimes talks a good game and has never once taken a non-GOP vote Mary Peltola wouldn't have.
neutral · AI labelView post →She talks a good game then votes to enable all this bullshit. Stfu, Lisa.
neutral · AI labelView post →It’s finally happened! In a perfect Derek Craven Day celebration, our Trailblazer conversations continue this week with thee Lisa Kleypas, historical romance royalty, who changed the game when she brought working class heroes to historicals.
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight's game has gifted us 3 GIFs--Lisa Salter's arm, Mike Bloomberg being crushed, and the Orange Turd asleep (yet again). Use them wisely.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Los Angeles Sparks have been here since Day ☝️ Take a look back at Lisa Leslie's pre-game arrival and the Sparks locker room ahead of tip in '97
neutral · AI labelView post →"Is ______ game still worth playing?" Is the Mona Lisa still worth viewing? Is Notre-Dame still worth visiting? Is Shakespeare still worth reading? Art doesn't expire. Play the game.
neutral · AI labelView post →Lisa Leslie is a masterful game analyst and even better teacher. I need a Lisa Leslie app that I can hold up during a W game and get a recap. Like Shazam for basketball. Lisa, what the heck did I just witness? Shazam!😆 #Unrivaled #WNBA
neutral · AI labelView post →Thought that was the best possible game reaction from Nick Sirianni w Lisa Salters. He was clearly ticked off. But he was measured w what he said.
neutral · AI labelView post →The original Rugrats game is peak that should be hung up in a museum next to the Mona Lisa and the modern art urinal.
neutral · AI labelView post →Best moment of tonight's #Shadowdark game: a player accidentally copy-pasting a Lisa Frank dolphin poster into Owlbear Rodeo. #TTRPG
neutral · AI labelView post →Lisa Kudrow and Courtney Cox doing a mobile game ad? Recession indicator.
neutral · AI labelView post →Its kinda like how LISA the Painful, a game very rooted in the American Midwest, got really popular in eastern europe
neutral · AI labelView post →The American Friend (1977) Directed by Wim Wenders adapted from the 1974 novel Ripley's Game by Patricia Highsmith. Starring Dennis Hopper, Bruno Ganz and Lisa Kreuzer.
neutral · AI labelView post →That game was absolutely insane and Lisa Barlow is such a thin skinned baby. The shit about Bronwyn was much worse but she didn’t throw a fit. Lisa can’t take any heat at all. #RHOSLC
neutral · AI labelView post →Only THREE Bob's Burgers characters?! No Lisa? And they put in the fish over Francine?! This fighting game roster sucks.
neutral · AI labelView post →Lisa is a cool game
neutral · AI labelView post →#EmojiSounds #MusicChallenge Day 9: 🎻 Lisa Germano, “Guessing Game (Or The Music Business)” m.youtube.com/watch?v=SksV...
neutral · AI labelView post →Reference flipped the “Won WNBA Finals” switch, here’s Gabby alongside the original CC, Lisa, DT, Maya and A’ja. I never wanna hear shit about the Valks lacking a superstar again www.sports-reference.com/stathead/bas...
neutral · AI labelView post →HOLY SHIT LISA SAY SORRY YOU HAVE NO STAKE IN THIS PATERNITY GAME #rhoslc
neutral · AI labelView post →“I feel like we’re kind of in a shell game, something that’s not quite honest.” Georgetown Law's Lisa Heinzerling breaks down the major takeaways from the Supreme Court’s Chevron ruling:
neutral · AI labelView post →Bluesky? Game Mona Lisa? Art Piet Mondrian's Composition #2 (Untitled)? Game Disco Elysium? Art
neutral · AI labelView post →I’ve disliked games before but I’ve never hated one as much as this, especially how it goes out of its way to say ‘♥♥♥♥ you’ to the player. It’ll deliberately waste your time and then laugh at you for wasting it. For instance, one area has a sign that says there’s something important high above. You climb up a rope for a very long time only to find a statue of someone giving you the middle finger. You want to jump off a cliff, die and quickly reload your last save? Nope, the game doesn’t let…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It’ll always be the Mina Lisa game to me
neutral · AI labelView post →Lisa loves tennis. Singles. Doubles. Mixed Doubles. You name it, she's game for it! #ainude #aiboobs #aisexysports #aiboobies
neutral · AI labelView post →Lisa #silenthill #lisagarland #game #fanart
neutral · AI labelView post →Lisa Hanawalt was also a major part of one of the greatest moments on @dropout.tv's show Game Changer, which is just pure genius and joy: youtu.be/pwvS3G5AV9w?...
neutral · AI labelView post →Lisa is feeling under the weather, so took 17yo to the Union game.
neutral · AI labelView post →Lisa the Painful is a certified classic, that is aging like the finest of wines as time passes. I wholeheartedly believe it's one of those games EVERYONE has to experience in this lifetime and it's honestly a one in a million perfect story in my books. Being a direct followup of Lisa the First, a game that you have to at least watch a youtube breakdown so you understand what you're getting into, Lisa the painful deals with some very sensitive and disturbing topics such as, Child Rape, Child…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Finished this game many years ago, still thinks about it weekly, I try to make everyone I care about discover it, not all are willing to give it a try sadly, so here am I giving gospell to random people, if you can go through the stylised visuals, rough themes and not against soft RPG elements, go for it without hesitation. Trully an experience.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →LISA: The Painful is a singular and deeply unsettling role-playing game developed by Dingaling Productions and published by Serenity Forge that stands apart from most of its genre through sheer emotional intensity and thematic boldness. What initially appears to be a retro-inspired 2D RPG quickly reveals itself as a harrowing exploration of trauma, obsession, addiction, and moral decay, wrapped in a world that oscillates between grotesque absurdity and genuine despair. It is a game that…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →GAME ON 🚨 Lisa Baum opened scoring for Arsenal just before halftime with her second goal of the season, but Lauren Hemp answered minutes later to level it for reigning league champions Manchester City 🔥
neutral · AI labelView post →I've been dead for 35 years. Today is the day I live. Genuinely my favorite game of all time, I don't know what else to say besides its extremely beautiful as it is stupid, and that's what makes it so great.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →They should've had Lisa Leslie calling the game
neutral · AI labelView post →You have to play this game alone, all by yourself, don't watch gameplays. This rough game works better cuz when u less expect sth it happens and ure ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up brutally. Having that said, Lisa has an interesting way to interact with the world, no one can tell what is happening next until it happens, I like the experiencie Lisa has to offer Pd. try not to go back to ur last save file if things go wrong, the world is cruel by default.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I definitely remember the first video game moment that ever made me cry. Lisa in Silent Hill 1. Enough said 😭😭😭 And one moment that literally makes me cry everytime is the final pacifist route boss in Undertale. You know the one. 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
neutral · AI labelView post →I'll start by saying that I really wanted to like LISA. Before playing, I read all the raving recommendations. As of writing this review, I haven't played the "Definitive Version," but seeing how people who love this game hate the changes, I'm sure it won't change my views. Overall, I didn't enjoy LISA, not in a "this game will break you! And ruin you day!" but rather, I didn't enjoy the half-baked experience. You could say it's because I had crushingly high expectations, so take that as you…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game hates you. It will hurt you, it will insult you, it will punch you in the teeth, and you'll never be able to stop thinking about it for the rest of your life.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Make a game milder: Lisa the Inconvenienced
neutral · AI labelView post →They on Lobo’s ass for that game call last night. 😂 I think Lisa Leslie and Caroline Peck and Coop are the best game callers (Kara Lawson when she’s available) and I dont know why they dont get more games.
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