# Games like LISA: The Painful

> The closest matches to LISA: The Painful: OFF, OMORI, Jimmy and the Pulsating Mass, This War of Mine, and Look Outside. Ranked by imho.run from Steam co-play data, shared tags and reviews.

## Similar games, ranked

The full ranked list, 24 games, best match first (the HTML page shows the top 8 as cards).

1. [OFF](https://imho.run/games/3339880/off) — Shares turn based combat and resource management with LISA: The Painful. 2,016 Steam reviews, 97% positive. [Steam](https://store.steampowered.com/app/3339880/)
2. [OMORI](https://imho.run/games/1150690/omori) — Also RPGMaker and Party-Based RPG, like LISA: The Painful. 53,302 Steam reviews, 98% positive. [Steam](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1150690/)
3. [Jimmy and the Pulsating Mass](https://imho.run/games/706560/jimmy-and-the-pulsating-mass) — Also RPGMaker and JRPG, like LISA: The Painful. 471 Steam reviews, 94% positive. [Steam](https://store.steampowered.com/app/706560/)
4. [This War of Mine](https://imho.run/games/282070/this-war-of-mine) — Shares morality choices and resource management with LISA: The Painful. 22,855 Steam reviews, 92% positive. [Steam](https://store.steampowered.com/app/282070/)
5. [Look Outside](https://imho.run/games/3373660/look-outside) — Shares side quests and turn based combat with LISA: The Painful. 8,069 Steam reviews, 98% positive. [Steam](https://store.steampowered.com/app/3373660/)
6. [Wasteland 3](https://imho.run/games/719040/wasteland-3) — Shares turn based combat with LISA: The Painful. 11,050 Steam reviews, 85% positive. [Steam](https://store.steampowered.com/app/719040/)
7. [Persona 3 Reload](https://imho.run/games/2161700/persona-3-reload) — Also Party-Based RPG and JRPG, like LISA: The Painful. 20,840 Steam reviews, 97% positive. [Steam](https://store.steampowered.com/app/2161700/)
8. [Shin Megami Tensei III Nocturne HD Remaster](https://imho.run/games/1413480/shin-megami-tensei-iii-nocturne-hd-remaster) — A frequent pick in LISA: The Painful players' libraries, and another RPG. 2,505 Steam reviews, 89% positive. [Steam](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1413480/)
9. [Undertale](https://imho.run/games/391540/undertale) — Same emotional mood as LISA: The Painful. 160,033 Steam reviews, 97% positive. [Steam](https://store.steampowered.com/app/391540/)
10. [Rakuen](https://imho.run/games/559210/rakuen) — A frequent pick in LISA: The Painful players' libraries. 2,904 Steam reviews, 97% positive. [Steam](https://store.steampowered.com/app/559210/)
11. [BLACK SOULS II](https://imho.run/games/3855540/black-souls-ii) — Also JRPG, like LISA: The Painful. 716 Steam reviews, 97% positive. [Steam](https://store.steampowered.com/app/3855540/)
12. [Eastward](https://imho.run/games/977880/eastward) — Also JRPG and Post-apocalyptic, like LISA: The Painful. 3,574 Steam reviews, 86% positive. [Steam](https://store.steampowered.com/app/977880/)
13. [Night in the Woods](https://imho.run/games/481510/night-in-the-woods) — Also Dark Humor, like LISA: The Painful. 13,243 Steam reviews, 95% positive. [Steam](https://store.steampowered.com/app/481510/)
14. [LiEat](https://imho.run/games/373770/lieat) — Shares turn based combat with LISA: The Painful. 1,904 Steam reviews, 97% positive. [Steam](https://store.steampowered.com/app/373770/)
15. [Bug Fables: The Everlasting Sapling](https://imho.run/games/1082710/bug-fables-the-everlasting-sapling) — Shares turn based combat with LISA: The Painful. 4,407 Steam reviews, 97% positive. [Steam](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1082710/)
16. [START AGAIN: a prologue](https://imho.run/games/1691420/start-again-a-prologue) — Shares turn based combat and resource management with LISA: The Painful. 507 Steam reviews, 96% positive. [Steam](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1691420/)
17. [Ouroboros](https://imho.run/games/822830/ouroboros) — Shares turn based combat with LISA: The Painful. 124 Steam reviews, 95% positive. [Steam](https://store.steampowered.com/app/822830/)
18. [Dark Deity 2](https://imho.run/games/2446600/dark-deity-2) — Shares side quests and turn based combat with LISA: The Painful. 1,058 Steam reviews, 92% positive. [Steam](https://store.steampowered.com/app/2446600/)
19. [Felvidek](https://imho.run/games/2299900/felvidek) — Shares turn based combat with LISA: The Painful. 3,400 Steam reviews, 99% positive. [Steam](https://store.steampowered.com/app/2299900/)
20. [THYSIASTERY](https://imho.run/games/3140180/thysiastery) — Shares party recruitment and turn based combat with LISA: The Painful. 113 Steam reviews, 85% positive. [Steam](https://store.steampowered.com/app/3140180/)
21. [Disco Elysium - The Final Cut](https://imho.run/games/632470/disco-elysium-the-final-cut) — Same melancholic mood as LISA: The Painful. 55,782 Steam reviews, 92% positive. [Steam](https://store.steampowered.com/app/632470/)
22. [Clair Obscur: Expedition 33](https://imho.run/games/1903340/clair-obscur-expedition-33) — Also Party-Based RPG and JRPG, like LISA: The Painful. 97,746 Steam reviews, 97% positive. [Steam](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1903340/)
23. [OneShot](https://imho.run/games/420530/oneshot) — Also RPGMaker, like LISA: The Painful. 31,336 Steam reviews, 98% positive. [Steam](https://store.steampowered.com/app/420530/)
24. [8-Bit Adventures 2](https://imho.run/games/733110/8-bit-adventures-2) — Shares resource management with LISA: The Painful. 251 Steam reviews, 96% positive. [Steam](https://store.steampowered.com/app/733110/)

## Machine-readable

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## About LISA: The Painful

LISA: The Painful is a 2014 turn-based RPG set in a post-apocalyptic world where players guide a reluctant hero through environmental hazards while managing scarce resources and recruiting a varied party for the journey ahead. The game features morality choices, permanent character death, and numerous side quests that reviewers note shape the experience meaningfully. Players describe the tone as bleak and melancholic, with dark humor providing an unexpected counterweight to moments of emotional weight. The challenging difficulty and substantial length reward those seeking a narrative-focused adventure, and it runs in a playable state on Steam Deck. The game holds a 96% positive rating from 9,948 Steam reviews.

## Game info

- **AppID:** 335670
- **Developer:** Dingaling Productions
- **Publisher:** Serenity Forge
- **Genres:** Indie, Adventure, RPG
- **Categories:** Partial Controller Support, Single-player, Steam Achievements, Steam Cloud, Steam Trading Cards, Family Sharing
- **Released:** Dec 15, 2014
- **Free to play:** no
- **Metacritic:** 77
- **Platforms:** windows, mac, linux

## Links

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- [Steam store](https://store.steampowered.com/app/335670/)
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