LISA: The Painful
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This dark humor RPG adventure, released in 2014, features a story-rich, psychological horror experience in a post-apocalyptic world. Over 15,000 Steam reviews show a 95% positive reception. Published by Serenity Forge, the game offers a unique narrative.
Overview
LISA: The Painful is a 2014 Adventure game developed by Dingaling Productions and published by Serenity Forge. On Steam it has gathered 15,038 player reviews, 95% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Dingaling Productions with publisher Serenity Forge is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Adventure projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 902,000 to 2.1 million units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, LISA: The Painful can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
15,038
Positive
95%
Steam appid
335670
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.0902K to 2.1M
units (median: 1.5M)
≈ $10.3M to $24.0M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2014 | +30 |
| price_$20 | 0 |
| positive_95% | +10 |
| genre_Adventure | +10 |
| final NB | 100 |
Confidence range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use a multi-factor Boxleiter method against public Steam review counts.
They are not authoritative sales data. Actual sales can deviate by
±50% in either direction. Free-to-play games, deeply discounted titles, and games
with heavy bundle distribution have larger error margins. Algorithm version
v1.0.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for LISA: The Painful at roughly 902,000 to 2.1 million copies, with a median around 1.5 million, derived from its 15,038 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $17.2M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
90d · low $11.79Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $11.79 to $19.99, averaging $18.68 across 3 discount windows, with a historical low of $11.79 on 2026-04-16.
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Platforms
linuxmacwindows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has LISA: The Painful sold?
- indielist estimates LISA: The Painful has sold between 902,280 and 2,105,320 units (median 1,503,800), derived from its 15,038 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed LISA: The Painful?
- LISA: The Painful was developed by Dingaling Productions and published by Serenity Forge.
- When was LISA: The Painful released?
- LISA: The Painful was released in 2014.
- How many reviews does LISA: The Painful have on Steam?
- LISA: The Painful has 15,038 Steam reviews, of which 95% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions LISA: The Painful within the Adventure segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Dingaling Productions's other releases and Serenity Forge's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where LISA: The Painful sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same LISA: The Painful page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Adventure game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.