Single-player games like LISA: The Painful
Below are 17 single-player Steam games similar to LISA: The Painful, ranked by player overlap. Every pick carries Steam's Single-player category, so multiplayer-only titles or always-online games don't sneak in. imho.run pulls the category data from Steam directly — Single-player here matches what the store labels.
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Ranked picks
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OFF
Single-player alternative to LISA: The Painful — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with LISA: The Painful.
“I’m the Batter. I’ve been entrusted with a sacred mission.” -- One of the most influential RPGs of the last 20 years is finally coming to Steam. Take control of the Batter as he seeks to purify an uncanny and hopeless world haunted by specters, guided by a cryptic, grinning cat called The Judge.
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OMORI
Single-player alternative to LISA: The Painful — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with LISA: The Painful.
Explore a strange world full of colorful friends and foes. When the time comes, the path you’ve chosen will determine your fate... and perhaps the fate of others as well.
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Jimmy and the Pulsating Mass
Single-player alternative to LISA: The Painful — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with LISA: The Painful.
One day, Jimmy looked inside.
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This War of Mine
Single-player alternative to LISA: The Painful — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with LISA: The Painful.
In This War Of Mine you do not play as an elite soldier, rather a group of civilians trying to survive in a besieged city; struggling with lack of food, medicine and constant danger from snipers and hostile scavengers. The game provides an experience of war seen from an entirely new angle.
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Look Outside
Single-player alternative to LISA: The Painful — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and RPG with LISA: The Painful.
Look Outside is a survival horror RPG set in a single apartment building. A mysterious event turns anyone who looks out the window into grotesque monsters, leaving the world in absolute chaos. Scavenge the building to seek food, supplies, and weapons while encountering strange characters.
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Wasteland 3
Single-player alternative to LISA: The Painful — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with LISA: The Painful.
Following the critically acclaimed 2014 Game of the Year winner Wasteland 2, the RPG series that pioneered the post-apocalyptic genre in video games returns with Wasteland 3.
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Persona 3 Reload
Single-player alternative to LISA: The Painful — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and RPG with LISA: The Painful.
Dive into the Dark Hour and awaken the depths of your heart. Persona 3 Reload is a captivating reimagining of the genre-defining RPG, reborn for the modern era with cutting-edge graphics and gameplay.
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Shin Megami Tensei III Nocturne HD Remaster
Single-player alternative to LISA: The Painful — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with LISA: The Painful.
Reawaken your inner demon in a modernized version of the acclaimed ATLUS classic, Shin Megami Tensei III Nocturne HD Remaster.
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Undertale
Single-player alternative to LISA: The Painful — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with LISA: The Painful.
UNDERTALE! The RPG game where you don't have to destroy anyone.
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Mad Max
Single-player alternative to LISA: The Painful — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with LISA: The Painful.
Play as Mad Max, a reluctant hero and survivor who wants nothing more than to leave the madness behind and find solace.
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MOTHER
Single-player alternative to LISA: The Painful — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with LISA: The Painful.
MOTHER is a first-person psychological horror game about protecting your children while descending deeper & deeper into madness. Defend them at all costs. Be careful, because their death is permanent!
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Disco Elysium - The Final Cut
Single-player alternative to LISA: The Painful — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with LISA: The Painful.
Disco Elysium - The Final Cut is a groundbreaking role playing game. You’re a detective with a unique skill system at your disposal and a whole city to carve your path across. Interrogate unforgettable characters, crack murders or take bribes. Become a hero or an absolute disaster of a human being.
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BLACK SOULS II
Single-player alternative to LISA: The Painful — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with LISA: The Painful.
Despair. Fear, Madness, once again. An original work based on "Alice in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking-Glass." Dark Fairy Tale Fantasy x Psychological Horror RPG focusing on the themes of "Exploration of a Mad World" and "Life or Death Combat against Demonbeasts".
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Yume Nikki
Single-player alternative to LISA: The Painful — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with LISA: The Painful.
This is a game in which you traverse the extremely dark world inside a dream.
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DRAGON QUEST III HD-2D Remake
Single-player alternative to LISA: The Painful — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with LISA: The Painful.
DRAGON QUEST III HD-2D Remake is a stunning reimagining of the beloved masterpiece and narrative beginning to The Erdrick Trilogy.
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NieR Replicant™ ver.1.22474487139...
Single-player alternative to LISA: The Painful — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and RPG with LISA: The Painful.
The upgraded prequel of NieR:Automata. A kind young man sets out with Grimoire Weiss, a strange talking book, to search for the "Sealed verses" in order to save his sister Yonah, who fell terminally ill to the Black Scrawl.
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LISA: The First
Single-player alternative to LISA: The Painful — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with LISA: The Painful.
A memory of madness.