LISA: The Painful
Last updated: 2026-01-20
- Masterful storytelling and narrative depth
- Balanced humor with dark, engaging themes
- High replayability through meaningful choices
- Unique and strategic turn-based combat system
- Punishing and often unfair gameplay difficulty
- Inconsistent pacing and slow gameplay experience
Emotions
Frustration10%Admiration10%Amusement7%Disappointment6%Curiosity5%
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Overwhelmingly Positive (9/10)
- Total reviews
- 14,871
- Positive
- 14,20195.5%
- Negative
- 6704.5%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 988,849
- Estimated revenue
- $19,767,092
- Game price
- $20
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 101.33%
- Estimated copies lost
- 665
- Estimated revenue lost
- $13,293
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 101.3% Avg playtime 0.8h | 131.7% Avg playtime 1.1h |
| > 2h playtime | 445.9% Avg playtime 21.4h | 68491.1% Avg playtime 32.4h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 0.2 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 1.8 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 11.9 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 4,052 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
751 total
Organic purchasers53671.4%
Voted up: 93%
Key activations21528.6%
Voted up: 91%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
751 total
First impression0-2h344.53%
Voted up: 65%
Mid game2-10h10413.8%
Voted up: 82%
Late game10-20h25934.5%
Voted up: 95%
Endgame20h+35447.1%
Voted up: 97%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
76.9%
Global baseline 92.8%
26 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 14,871 total.