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Lisa: The Painful
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Lisa: The Painful

201490/100
Role-playing (RPG)Turn-based strategy (TBS)AdventureIndie

Comedy · Horror · Pixel Art · Post-Apocalyptic · Survival

Lisa: The Painful's bleak, post-apocalyptic world and unforgiving combat define its identity. The game's brutal difficulty stems from its willingness to punish the player, forcing tough choices that often result in permanent party member loss. This is a narrative-driven RPG that uses its turn-based battles and unsettling atmosphere to deliver a deeply affecting story that players remember long after the credits roll.

About Lisa: The Painful

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Lisa is a quirky side-scrolling RPG set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Beneath the charming and funny exterior is a world full of disgust and moral destruction. Players will learn what kind of person they are by being FORCED to make choices. These choices permanently effect the game play. If you want to save a party member from death, you will have to sacrifice the strength of your character. Whether it's taking a beating for them, or chopping off limbs, or some other inhuman way. You will learn that in this world being selfish and heartless is the only way to survive...

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Rating
Critic & community
85
Match
Recommendation strength
88%

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Role-playing (RPG)

Navigate a brutal world where every choice matters, mirroring Lisa's focus on resource management and difficult decisions, but in a modern survival setting.

Why recommended

  • Criteria — Strong Story is delivered through encounters with other characters and the player's own internal struggles, creating a narrative that evolves based on player choices.
  • The constant need to scavenge, manage resources, and make tough moral choices creates the same sense of desperation found in Lisa, but with a focus on modern survival.
  • Exploration of the game world, uncovering different locations and interacting with various characters, provides the Adventure element.
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Critic & community
75
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Recommendation strength
78%

Manage a team of survivors in a frozen wasteland, where resource scarcity and tough choices define your struggle, echoing Lisa's themes of loss and resilience.

Why recommended

  • Criteria — Strong Story is delivered through radio communications and environmental storytelling as you uncover the mysteries of the frozen landscape and the fate of its inhabitants.
  • The need to scavenge for resources, manage a team, and make difficult decisions in a harsh environment creates a similar sense of desperation and survival found in Lisa.
  • Exploration of the game world, uncovering different locations and interacting with various characters, provides the Adventure element.
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Critic & community
70
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Recommendation strength
72%

Experience a tense and atmospheric adventure where you must survive against a relentless pursuer, mirroring the feeling of dread and desperation in Lisa.

Why recommended

  • Criteria — Strong Story delivered through environmental storytelling and interactions with other survivors as you uncover the mysteries of the game's world.
  • The constant threat of the pursuer and the need to scavenge for resources creates a similar sense of desperation and survival found in Lisa.
  • Exploration of the game world, uncovering different locations and interacting with various characters, provides the Adventure element.

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