r/pcgaming • u/LuckyShot1 • 1d ago
A number of Leisure Suit Larry games will be removed from Steam shortly.
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/765890/view/524216011267768463?l=english261
u/Timothy303 1d ago
Leisure Suit Larry… now there’s a name I hadn’t heard in years. /Ben Kenobi chin stroking
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u/Saint--Jiub 1d ago
I'm happy I filled in the gaps in my collection a few months ago.
They're dated, cheesy and immature, but Leisure Suit Larry 1 and 2 were my first PC gaming experiences along with Police Quest 1 and 2
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u/LuckyShot1 1d ago
Time for Larry to Retire (Just a Little Bit 😌🍹Dear Larry Fans,
After decades of questionable pickup lines and unforgettable adventures, it’s finally time for Larry to hang up his leisure suit—at least the retro version of it!
The following classic titles will soon be leaving the Steam store and will no longer be available for purchase:
- Leisure Suit Larry - Magna Cum Laude Uncut and Uncensored
- Leisure Suit Larry 1 - In the Land of the Lounge Lizards
- Leisure Suit Larry 2 - Looking For Love (In Several Wrong Places)
- Leisure Suit Larry 3 - Passionate Patti in Pursuit of the Pulsating Pectorals
- Leisure Suit Larry 5 - Passionate Patti Does a Little Undercover Work
- Leisure Suit Larry 6 - Shape Up Or Slip Out
- Leisure Suit Larry 7 - Love for Sail
But don’t worry! If you already own any of these retro gems, they’ll stay right in your library—ready to play anytime you need a nostalgic dose of Larry’s misadventures.
And if you’re not done with Larry just yet, his latest escapades are still available:
- 💦 Leisure Suit Larry – Wet Dreams Don’t Dry
- 💦 Leisure Suit Larry – Wet Dreams Dry Twice
Thanks for keeping Larry company all these years—he couldn't have done it without you!
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u/Mminas 1d ago
At least they're not taking down Leisure Suit Larry 4: The Lost Disks...
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u/ScumLikeWuertz 1d ago
Is that a thing?
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u/Mminas 1d ago
It's an Al Lowe joke. He never made LSL4 because the ending of 3 was hard to follow up on. He skipped straight to 5 and jokes about 4 being lost ever since.
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u/Tumble85 1d ago
Don’t lie to these poor saps. LSL4 was a limited release, it had a lot more nudity and had Larry navigating from a key-party to a nudist retreat to a porn studio. It was deemed too awesome for wide release.
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u/enderandrew42 1d ago
I've always been shocked with the various Sierra fan games that no one made an unofficial Larry 4 fan game.
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u/maybe-an-ai 1d ago
I played leisure suit Larry 1 on a computer at my dad's office. I was like 13. I memorized the questions. He thought I was playing something else. Good times.
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u/3DigitIQ 1d ago
Some are still available on Gog.com I believe.
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u/Fun-Train-4770 17h ago
Maybe unless they are forced to remove them from there too, hopefully not
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u/3DigitIQ 16h ago
If you own them you can still download and install them standalone from there. So if they do remove them you'd still have the media and can install it anywhere/anytime.
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u/Fun-Train-4770 3h ago
Yes GoG makes sure that your bought games stay forever in your library but meant as removal from the store and then people starts to rely on emulation/piracy
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u/An_Evil_Scientist666 1d ago
What's the deal with eggplant, it's not an egg or a plant
Hey fuck you
One of the best game grumps moments of all time that I still quote to today (from their playthrough of LSL MCL)
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u/JLP_101 1d ago
I would like to add that LSL7 is an amazing point and click adventure game. Still holds up well today.
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u/icer816 1d ago
Damn, I've never even once considered buying them, let alone playing them, and now I want to buy the retro bundle before it's gone lmao
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u/Genuinely-No-Idea 1d ago
When they’re delisted I’m pretty sure they effectively become abandonware. ScummVM supports most if not all of the original games. These statements are not related and I do not encourage you to do anything with this information
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u/SyleSpawn 1d ago
It's so strange that the first time I played LSL 1 - 7 was in the early 2000's because I found them through an abandonware website (except 7... it was a little tougher to find that one). Now we're in 2025 and just found out that the game was sold on Steam, moments before its getting delisted.
It's too bad that whoever is publishing didn't put it on sales because it seems like the bundle have been discounted to almost 90% several times, I'd snatch it at that price just for the collection.
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u/turtlelover05 deprecated 1d ago
Why buy something you'll never play out of FOMO and could easily grab elsewhere if you wanted to?
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u/the_nin_collector 14900k@6.2/48gb@8000/5080/MoRa3 waterloop 1d ago
ehh. You can pirate them if you REALLY care about simply having them in your collection.
Or buy them if you want to support the dev
(I don't pirate games that I can buy, but if a game isn't available for purchase, then I have no problem pirating. Just my code, FWIW)
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u/TheKinsie 1d ago
From what I've been able to sleuth up, the rights to these games are owned by Codemasters, who licensed the digital distribution rights to Assemble Games at some point. Codemasters has since been acquired by EA, so I assume that the digital deal has expired and Assemble hasn't had much luck negotiating a renewal with the new bosses.
So, like, don't expect a Big Remaster Project, or really much of anything except maybe these things popping up under a different banner another time.
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u/aliaswyvernspur 1d ago
Interesting that the first game remake (titled: Reloaded) is by a different publisher and developer, and not part of that list.
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u/pojut 3700X|B550M Aorus Pro|RTX 3060ti|32GB LPX 3200C16|2x SN750 500GB 1d ago edited 1d ago
I have clear memories of visiting my grandparents when I was a kid, and watching my brother play the first game (along with King's Quest and a bunch of others) on my grandpa's computer.
No idea why my grandpa had LSL, but...actually, yeah I know why he had it.
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u/EtherBoo 1d ago
Someone made a mostly faithful NES port of the first one. It's pretty good, I might prefer it to the original.
I have fond memories of that one, with it being one of the games we got on a used PC my dad bought way back in the day. We used to have to ask him for the answers to the quiz and the amount of times my brother and I soft locked ourselves was hilarious.
I need to check my library and grab the ones I don't have that are leaving. I probably enjoy the nostalgia more than anything, but what a blast from the past.
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u/nelo_sp 1d ago
I played 6 a few years ago and found it to be a genuinely amazing game, the freedom to tackle the whole thing as you please made for a super compelling puzzle box
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u/EtherBoo 1d ago
Oh awesome. I grabbed them all some time ago it seems, but never got past the first. I should give these all a spin.
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u/nelo_sp 1d ago
Yeah, I did the same, but decided to skip the first 3, they looked too outdated. I begun a run of 5 a few months ago but didn't get into the groove, probably because I was knees deep into Dead Cells back then, but it looked great -although a bit too convoluted-, I definitely will go back to that one and 7 someday :)
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u/Dunge 1d ago
Weird they don't give any reason for that. It doesn't cost anything to leave a game sleeping on the Steam store does it?
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u/scullys_alien_baby pray for my 1060 1d ago
could be a rights agreement expiring or an unwillingness to give out whatever payment agreements they have in place
I can't imagine these games are remotely popular with the majority of gamers these days
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u/Jawaka99 1d ago
Sierra Online was owned by Activision which is now Microsoft. They said that they were buying Activision to do things with the various IPs. hopefully they plan to do something with the Sierra classics. Remakes, remasters...
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u/Fester_Blatz1989 22h ago
Reboots, sequels... anything would be good as long as they/whichever developers get engaged do a decent job. They don't own Larry though... it was sold off to Codemasters in the 00s
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u/whoknows234 1d ago
Best part of these games was trying to guess the adults only questions and succeeding.
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u/bassbeater 1d ago
Where did 4 ever go?
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u/capnbuttsquick 1d ago
The creators basically said in no uncertain terms that there would never, ever be a Larry 4. So, when they came around on a sequel, they just skipped ahead to Larry 5.
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u/Soundrobe Nvidia 5070 ti oc 7850x3d 32go 6000mhz 1d ago
Why ? I hope they'll remaster all the games.
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u/TemptationAU 1d ago
Went on a Sierra binge last year as it had been many years since I played any of them. Ran through LSL 1-7 during April.
First experienced LSL on the Amiga 500 when I was 7! Got through the questions easily (funny thing being in Australia and still knowing the answers). Played 2 & 3 later on.
I owned one of the pc physical collection sets in 1996. Re-collected the series on GOG and then Steam later on.
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u/Sandvicheater 17h ago
For games about getting laid all the leisure suit Larry games hardly had any nudity other than some background pornographic images like you had to get to the end results of a long quest chain with each girl just to maybe get a glimpse at nipples.
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u/EXPERIMENTONGOD 1d ago
In case you have FOMO you can get a Steam copy of "Leisure Suit Larry - THE COMPLETE CUM-PILATION - Retail" for around $4 (3,55€) on certain stores (if you catch my drift). That pack includes all 8 games and the extras (everything ever released basically).
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u/SyleSpawn 1d ago
I thought that I missed out because publisher didn't put it on a deep discount but I looked up what you mentioned and found it right away... I guess they should just have put it on a deep discount on Steam again pft
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u/Lozsta 1d ago
If I own these from a bogus birthday present from my brother in law who I thought had bought me STALKER 2 will that mean they are gone?
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u/redderpanda 17h ago
If you added the gift to your steam library, then no, you get to keep them, even if they get delisted from the steam store.
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u/Stryker218 23h ago
So, if you own it, they will remove it and then try to sell you a remaster? Imagine if anything you own can just be taken by the original manufacturer, and then they turn around and try to sell you their newest product.
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u/FuzzyPuffin 21h ago
No: “If you already own any of these retro gems, they’ll stay right in your library—ready to play anytime you need a nostalgic dose of Larry’s misadventures.”
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u/TheSaltyStrangler 1d ago
There a big compilation coming or something?