# Leisure Suit Larry

9 Hacker News commenters recommended Leisure Suit Larry and 0 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 5 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** People recommend the early Leisure Suit Larry games for their fun, humorous text-adventure puzzles, and for helping some players learn English.

## Why people recommend it

- Fun to play (3 comments): "The early Leisure Suit Larry games are a lot of fun" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48012698)) "I still had a blast playing them" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46926334)) "We had as much fun trying to answer those questions as we did playing the game." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48022505))
- Helped people learn English (2 comments): "Wanting to play Leisure suit Larry and space text adventure games properly was when I finally cracked English" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47920092)) "LSL 1 EGA specifically is pretty much how I learned English." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48022913))
- Memorable quiz-style puzzles and questions (2 comments): "We had as much fun trying to answer those questions as we did playing the game." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48022505)) "Guessing the right answer for the parental lock was most of the fun." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47808089))
- Nostalgic favorite from childhood (2 comments): "not quite leisure suit larry which one of our friends had" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48130165)) "good old times of monkey island or leisure suit larry" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50029866))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Sid Meier's Pirates!](https://hackerapproved.com/p/sid-meier-s-pirates.md): 61 recommend
- [Grim Fandango](https://hackerapproved.com/p/grim-fandango.md): 41 recommend
- [Myst](https://hackerapproved.com/p/myst.md): 31 recommend
- [Monkey Island](https://hackerapproved.com/p/monkey-island.md): 29 recommend
- [Doki Doki Literature Club](https://hackerapproved.com/p/doki-doki-literature-club.md): 25 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Leisure Suit Larry", https://hackerapproved.com/p/leisure-suit-larry/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).