AdventureIndieRPG
LISA: The Painful
Give it 5 hours
Gets good by 5h then rated almost like by veterans
Fully opens up by 10h rated like by long-time players
Reach the ending at least 13% of players who started
Started playing 89% of owners
Steam reviews 95% positive of 15,237
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours almost 1 in 3 reviews are negative (29%); after 15h it's 1 in 55 (2%).
- Fully opens up by hour 10.
- At least 13% of players who start reach the ending.
- The biggest drop-off is between “Let's Find Her” (Reach the first crossroads) and “It's All Falling Down” (Reach the second crossroads): from 84% to 38% of starters.
- 89% of owners got the first achievement.
When it gets good
Share of positive reviews by how many hours the reviewer had played when writing the review.
before it gets good opening up fully opened up
Based on all 15,281 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 298 reviews: 18.1h for positive, 6.2h for negative. Almost every game is rated lower in the first 2–3 hours: that window includes refunds and quick first impressions. What matters is how deep the dip is and how fast the game recovers.
Where players quit
Share of players who started the game and reached each story milestone. 100% is the most common achievement (88.8% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- Let's Find Her Reach the first crossroads. 84% −16
- It's All Falling Down Reach the second crossroads. Most players quit here 38% −47
- No Turning Back Reach the third crossroads. 29% −8
- Joyful End Giving in feels good. ≥13% −16
story milestone ending (most common ending) biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (68)
story milestone ending side
- Hint Guy Recruit Terry Hints. 100%
- Let's Find Her Reach the first crossroads. 84%
- Annoying Guy Recruit Nern Guan. 70%
- Embrace the Joy Meet Buzzo. 67%
- Drunk Guy Recruit Olan Hyot. 56%
- Headbutt Guy Recruit Rage Ironhead. 45%
- Violated Guy Recruit Fardy Hernandez. 41%
- Wild Guy Recruit Beastborn. 41%
- Really? Hairmanity? Kill the Men's Hair Club Presidents. 40%
- Poop Guy Recruit Percy Monsoon. 40%
- The Face of Blood Meet the Red Skull Rando 39%
- It's All Falling Down Reach the second crossroads. 38%
- Cat Guy Recruit Yazan Barghouti. 31%
- Happy Reunion Save Buddy. 31%
- No Turning Back Reach the third crossroads. 29%
- Super Drunk Guy Recruit Birdie Hall. 28%
- Poke Guy Recruit Ajeet Mandeep. 27%
- Red Hair Guy Recruit Rooster Coleman. 27%
- Bye, I Guess... Race Columbo. 26%
- American Guy Recruit Buffalo Van Dyke. 26%
- The End is Nigh Welcome to Hell. 25%
- No... It can't be... 24%
- Hot Snow Reach the Snowy Peak. 23%
- Art Guy Recruit Garth. 23%
- The Doctor is in the House Kill the doctor. 23%
- Nipple Guy Recruit Mad Dog. 23%
- Lady Guy Recruit Queen Roger. 22%
- Weird Guy Recruit Bo Wyatt. 22%
- Party Guy Recruit Dick Dickson. 22%
- Spear Guy Recruit Tiger Man. 22%
- Magic Guy Recruit Jack. 19%
- There's Something Fishy... Find the Fishmen. 19%
- Lawyer Fish Guy Recruit Harvey Alibastor. 19%
- Many Swords Guy Recruit Crisp Ladaddy. 18%
- Dirt Bag Guy Recruit RT. 18%
- Rando Got it! 18%
- Rhyming Bird Guy Recruit Geese Thompson. 16%
- The Champ is Here! Break the Streak, win the title. 16%
- Face First Guy Recruit Shocklord. 16%
- Arm-Shock 4 Life! Win the tag titles. 16%
- Look on the Brightside Watch a well executed suicide. 15%
- Sweaty Guy Recruit Ollie Nickels. 15%
- Salvation Ends Witness the fall of the Salvation Rangers. 15%
- Bug Guy Recruit Fly Minetti. 15%
- Powerful Clothesline Guy Recruit Sonny Backluwitz. 14%
- Fish Guy Recruit Carp. 14%
- Weekend Getaway Find the relaxing researchers. 14%
- Fan Club Got it! 13%
- Joyful End Giving in feels good. 13%
- Kind of Selfish Finish with one arm. 13%
- 10-4 Good Buddy Kill Satan. 13%
- Joyless End It's too late to fight it... 12%
- Cool Dude Guy Recruit Clint Olympic. 12%
- Yado False God. 11%
- Selfless Finish with no arms. 11%
- I Love You Son Kill all the Rouletters. 10%
- Mysterious Guy Recruit Buckets. 9.9%
- Joy Got it! 8.4%
- Selfish Finish with both arms. 7.9%
- Sorry Master The birth of Red Skull. 7.3%
- The Beat Never Dies His Hot Fire is even hotter in Hell. 6.9%
- The Source The resting place of the Darkness. 6.6%
- Worth It Learn the ways of the Bob Friday. 6.2%
- ... ... 6.0%
- Lisa Guidance. 4.8%
- I'm Sorry I'd change everything if I could. 4.7%
- Father The breeding ground. 4.4%
- No Friends Walk the path alone. 3.6%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-18.