Leisure Suit Larry
Shares rank 10 of 24 adventure games by recommenders
People recommend the early Leisure Suit Larry games for their fun, humorous text-adventure puzzles, and for helping some players learn English.
People recommend the early Leisure Suit Larry games for their fun, humorous text-adventure puzzles, and for helping some players learn English.
9 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 9
- criticize it
- 0
- approval share
- 100%
Recommended in 5 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 9 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 5 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Fun to play
“The early Leisure Suit Larry games are a lot of fun”
Comment from 4 May 2026 in “Sierra Raises $950M at $15B Valuation” “I still had a blast playing them”
Comment from 7 Feb 2026 in “Leisure Suit Larry's Al Lowe on model trains, funny deaths and Disney” “We had as much fun trying to answer those questions as we did playing the game.”
Comment from 5 May 2026 in “Kids bypass age verification with fake moustaches” Helped people learn English
“Wanting to play Leisure suit Larry and space text adventure games properly was when I finally cracked English”
Comment from 27 Apr 2026 in “Magic: The Gathering Took Me from N2 to Japanese Fluency” “LSL 1 EGA specifically is pretty much how I learned English.”
Comment from 5 May 2026 in “Kids bypass age verification with fake moustaches” Memorable quiz-style puzzles and questions
“We had as much fun trying to answer those questions as we did playing the game.”
Comment from 5 May 2026 in “Kids bypass age verification with fake moustaches” “Guessing the right answer for the parental lock was most of the fun.”
Comment from 17 Apr 2026 in “The Utopia of the Family Computer” Nostalgic favorite from childhood
“not quite leisure suit larry which one of our friends had”
Comment from 14 May 2026 in “Scorched Earth 2000 is back” “good old times of monkey island or leisure suit larry”
Comment from 10 Oct 2026 in “Triple-A Minesweeper”
Other adventure games people recommend
The four most recommended other adventure games, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sid Meier's Pirates! | 61 | 11 | 85% | 5 | — | Approved |
| Grim Fandango | 41 | 8 | 84% | 3 | 20 yrs3 owners | — |
| Myst | 31 | 7 | 82% | 10 | — | Approved |
| Monkey Island | 29 | 3 | 91% | 9 | — | Approved |
| Leisure Suit LarryThis page | 9 | 0 | 100% | 5 | — | — |
What people said
8 of the 10 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“good old times of monkey island or leisure suit larry”
“not quite leisure suit larry which one of our friends had”
“LSL 1 EGA specifically is pretty much how I learned English.”
“We had as much fun trying to answer those questions as we did playing the game.”
“The early Leisure Suit Larry games are a lot of fun”
“Wanting to play Leisure suit Larry and space text adventure games properly was when I finally cracked English”
“Guessing the right answer for the parental lock was most of the fun.”
“I still had a blast playing them”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.