Right now on Steam, you can pick up the 2018 comedy adventure Leisure Suit Larry: Wet Dreams Don’t Dry for about $1.50, roughly the cost of a basic two-dollar fast-food cheeseburger in the US, and follow gaming’s most hopeless pickup artist as he crashes headfirst into the age of dating apps.

If you have even a bit of nostalgia for smoky PC cafés and slightly dodgy boxed games, this deal is hard to ignore. The point-and-click adventure Leisure Suit Larry: Wet Dreams Don’t Dry, developed by German studio CrazyBunch and published by Assemble Entertainment, resurrected Larry Laffer back in 2018 as a fish-out-of-water in our smartphone-obsessed present. Today, thanks to a deep Steam discount, the game costs less than what many US chains charge for a plain cheeseburger, which makes it a tempting impulse buy if you like old-school adventures with dirty jokes.

The series itself goes all the way back to 1987, when designer Al Lowe and Sierra On-Line launched the very first Leisure Suit Larry. Starring a balding, leisure-suit-wearing loser who thinks he is God’s gift to women, the games mixed risqué gags, innuendo, and puzzle-driven storytelling in a way that quickly earned cult status. Alongside other Sierra point-and-click hits, Larry became part of the adventure game canon, even if parents and censors were not exactly thrilled with its “adults only” tone.

When Sierra’s golden era ended and the company was swallowed by mergers and restructurings, both the brand and Al Lowe drifted away from the spotlight. A few ill-fated attempts to modernise Larry in the 2000s pushed the character into forgettable spin-offs rather than proper adventures. Only decades later did CrazyBunch and Assemble Entertainment bring him back with Wet Dreams Don’t Dry, followed by the sequel Wet Dreams Dry Twice, positioning the series once again as a traditional point-and-click comedy for nostalgic players.

Why Wet Dreams Don’t Dry Is A Bargain At Burger Money

In Wet Dreams Don’t Dry, Larry is mysteriously catapulted from his late-80s world straight into the 21st century and quickly realises that everything has changed around him. Lefty’s bar is still there, but the real action happens on glowing phone screens and in hip startup offices. After getting his hands on a new smartphone and a Tinder-style dating app, Larry becomes obsessed with winning the heart of Faith, a tech executive who will only consider men who score 90 points or more on the app. Cue an endless parade of awkward dates, social media parodies, and tech-culture satire.

On the gameplay side, this is classic point-and-click comfort food. You wander from screen to screen, hoard weird items, combine them in ridiculous ways, and slowly untangle a chain of puzzles that sometimes feels like it came straight out of the 90s. The twist is the in-game smartphone, which you use to swipe on dates, order taxis, browse fake social networks, and poke fun at the tech world. There are more than thirty locations and dozens of exaggerated side characters, from influencer caricatures to over-the-top startup gurus, all written with a knowingly dumb sense of humour.

Critically, Wet Dreams Don’t Dry landed in the “solid but not spectacular” range, with review aggregates hovering around the low 70s out of 100 and many outlets praising the nostalgic vibe while pointing out that some jokes and puzzles feel a bit dated today. Fans of the old Sierra era, however, generally welcomed it as a genuine Larry comeback instead of another awkward genre switch or mini-game compilation. Yes, a few gags miss the mark, and some puzzles are more obscure than they should be, but if you accept that Leisure Suit Larry was always closer to a raunchy B-movie than prestige TV, this is a fun 8-10 hour throwback.

Considering that the game usually sells for a much higher price, seeing it down to about €1.50 on Steam – roughly $1.60, in the same ballpark as a simple two-dollar cheeseburger at a US fast-food chain – makes the decision fairly easy. For the cost of one greasy snack, you get a full evening of nostalgic point-and-click puzzling, a pile of cringeworthy joke,s and a little time capsule of how far both adventure games and dating culture have come.

Source: The game’s Steam page