How many copies has LISA: The Painful sold?

indielist estimates LISA: The Painful has sold between 785,400 and 1,832,600 units (median 1,309,000), derived from its 13,090 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who published LISA: The Painful?

LISA: The Painful was published by Serenity Forge, developed by Dingaling Productions. See Serenity Forge's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

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 13,090 Steam reviews, of which 95% are positive.

Is LISA: The Painful worth playing?

Steam players rate LISA: The Painful 95% positive across 13,090 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

LISA: The Painful

Dec 15, 2014 Adventure $19.99

Developer Dingaling Productions Publisher Serenity Forge

Profile updated Jun 2026

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.

LISA: The Painful is a 2014 Adventure game developed by Dingaling Productions and published by Serenity Forge. On Steam it has gathered 13,090 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 785,000 to 1.8 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

13,090

Positive

95%

Steam appid

335670

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

785K to 1.8M

units (median: 1.3M)

≈ $9.0M to $20.9M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

785K median 1.8M

+ How is this calculated?

13,090 reviews × NB(100) = 1,309,000 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2014	+30
price_$20	0
positive_95%	+10
genre_Adventure	+10
final NB	100

Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].

Methodology & limitations

Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it, especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.

indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for LISA: The Painful at roughly 785,000 to 1.8 million copies, with a median around 1.3 million, derived from its 13,090 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $14.9M 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

51 observed days · window low $10.99

Across 51 observed UTC days from 2026-06-03 to 2026-07-28, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $10.99 to $19.99. The tracked-window low was $10.99 on 2026-06-03.

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Frequently asked questions

How many copies has LISA: The Painful sold?: indielist estimates LISA: The Painful has sold between 785,400 and 1,832,600 units (median 1,309,000), derived from its 13,090 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 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.
Who published LISA: The Painful?: LISA: The Painful was published by Serenity Forge, developed by Dingaling Productions. See Serenity Forge's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
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 13,090 Steam reviews, of which 95% are positive.
Is LISA: The Painful worth playing?: Steam players rate LISA: The Painful 95% positive across 13,090 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

Players looking for games like LISA: The Painful can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Adventure titles such as Kindergarten 2, Little Misfortune, OMORI, OneShot, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. 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.

Matched from shared Steam tags and primary genre. Review count breaks ties; it is not a personal recommendation score.