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Lisa: The Joyful - Definitive Edition

2023
PlatformRole-playing (RPG)StrategyTurn-based strategy (TBS)AdventureIndie

Comedy · Horror · Survival

Lisa: The Joyful delivers a bleak, yet darkly humorous post-apocalyptic journey, fueled by turn-based combat and difficult choices. Its core is a punishing RPG experience, where every party member can permanently die, and the player is forced to make tough decisions with lasting consequences. The game's strange world, filled with off-kilter characters and unsettling situations, creates a unique atmosphere that's as engaging as it is disturbing.

About Lisa: The Joyful - Definitive Edition

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Lisa: The Joyful - Definitive Edition is the newly updated conclusion to the quirky side-scrolling RPG Lisa series. Explore Olathe as Buddy in your quest to punish the world that has treated you wrong. Along the way, learn about Olathe, your family, and the monsters and men in power. The world’s out to get you… Get. It. Back! The Definitive Edition brings fresh blood to the game with updated battle systems, 6 brand new Warlord skills, new border art overlays, music player, painless (easy) mode, and new secrets to explore.

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Critic & community
75
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Recommendation strength
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Change: A Homeless Survival Experience

Role-playing (RPG)

Like Lisa, you'll endure a harsh world with scarce resources and tough choices. This survival RPG forces you to manage hunger, health, and relationships while exploring a bleak and unforgiving city.

Why recommended

  • Criteria — Single-player focus with a strong emphasis on resource management and strategic decision-making in a challenging survival scenario.
  • Thematic match — The game's setting and tone echo Lisa's dark humor and bleak outlook, creating a sense of dread and desperation.
  • Exploration and discovery of the city and its inhabitants drive the adventure, mirroring Lisa's journey through its post-apocalyptic world.
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Critic & community
70
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Recommendation strength
72%

Survive a zombie apocalypse with turn-based combat and resource management. Like Lisa, you'll make tough choices to protect your dwindling community.

Why recommended

  • Criteria — Single-player, turn-based combat with permadeath and resource scarcity creates a challenging experience that demands strategic planning.
  • Thematic match — Zombies replace mutated humans, but the focus on survival, scavenging, and moral choices aligns with Lisa's themes.
  • Adventure through a post-apocalyptic world, scavenging for supplies and making choices that impact your community, similar to Lisa's narrative structure.
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Critic & community
68
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Recommendation strength
70%

Like Lisa, you must survive a harsh, post-apocalyptic world. Manage your team and resources to endure the winter.

Why recommended

  • Criteria — Single-player survival gameplay with resource management and strategic planning to survive a harsh winter.
  • Thematic match — The post-apocalyptic setting and focus on survival and resource scarcity echo Lisa's themes.
  • Exploration and discovery of the frozen landscape, scavenging for supplies, and managing your team drive the adventure.

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