Lisa: The Painful

Lisa: The Painful is a post-apocalyptic role-playing game made using the RPG Maker tool. It was developed and published by Austin Jorgenson under Dingaling Productions. It was released on Steam on December 15, 2014, for Windows, MacOS, and Linux. It is the second game in the Lisa trilogy.

In Lisa the Painful, the player controls Brad Armstrong, a balding, middle-aged man looking for his daughter in the wasteland of Olathe. Along the way, he is forced to make decisions that permanently influence the story. The game's plot is loosely based on the P.D. James novel, The Children of Men.

The game received critical acclaim for its darkly comedic writing and distinctive soundtrack.

 Story 
Lisa: The Painful is set in the wasteland of Olathe. The player controls Brad Armstrong as he searches for his adopted daughter, Buddy, in the wasteland of Olathe. An unexplained event called "The Flash" made all the women in Olathe disappear, but Buddy survived. This leads to a gang called the Rando Army to kidnap Buddy, to preserve humanity. On his journey, Brad recruits party members, fighting perverts and warlords. Brad is tormented by the mysterious Buzzo, who punishes Brad for an event he refuses to specify. Brad suffers flashbacks to the rape and abuse of his sister, Lisa, at the hands of his father, Marty. To cope with his stress, Brad takes the highly dangerous and addictive drug "joy", which can cause its users to transform into grotesque mutants. On August 15, 2015, a sequel called Lisa: The Joyful featuring Buddy as the protagonist was released.

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