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Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure

Big Finish Games · 2014-05-08

SteamGOG

AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

Releases: May 08, 2014 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), May 08, 2014 (Mac)

Tex Murphy is the last of the hard-boiled gumshoe detectives living in dystopian post-World War III San Francisco in the 2050s. Tex is an honest and good-natured private investigator with a penchant for bourbon, cigarettes and getting himself into trouble.

Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure is an Adventure, Indie game released in 2014, priced at $19.99, with a Very Positive review sentiment (87% of 1323 reviews) and an estimated 200,000 .. 500,000 owners.— census verdict as of 2026-09-20

0
playing now
87%
positive of 1.3k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
69/100
critic score (2 outlets, IGDB)
79/100
IGDB user rating (19 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$19.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 13:00 UTC (census sample)

Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure is the sixth game in the Tex Murphy series of detective adventure games, developed by Big Finish Games and published by Atlus. Like the previous three games, it tells much of its story through live-action full-motion video sequences, and features freely explorable 3D environments during gameplay.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 15 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 114% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 12% of 28,693 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 33k–80k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,325 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $3.81 at IndieGala Store (2015-11-13) · bundled 4×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 28 of 45 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
141420172026Week of 2017-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 3 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

302026-09-14 23:00 — 1 players2026-09-16 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 14:00 — 2 players2026-09-18 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 05:00 — 1 players2026-09-21 13:00 — 1 players2026-09-22 21:00 — 2 players2026-09-24 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 12:00 — 2 players2026-09-26 19:00 — 1 players2026-09-28 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 10:00 — 1 players2026-09-30 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 17:00 — 1 players2026-10-06 00:00 — 1 players2026-10-07 08:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 15:00 — 1 players2026-10-09 23:00 — 2 players2026-10-11 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 14:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 22:00 — 1 players2026-10-14 13:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$19.99$3.812015-01-012026-09-182015-01-01 — best price $9.992015-02-19 — best price $10.002015-05-22 — best price $19.992015-07-22 — best price $4.992015-09-24 — best price $3.992015-11-29 — best price $4.992015-12-24 — best price $4.792016-02-05 — best price $3.992016-04-04 — best price $19.992016-05-10 — best price $19.992016-08-19 — best price $4.002017-01-02 — best price $19.992017-05-25 — best price $19.992018-05-10 — best price $3.992018-08-06 — best price $3.992018-11-27 — best price $19.992019-02-12 — best price $19.992019-11-28 — best price $3.992020-02-24 — best price $19.992021-01-05 — best price $19.992021-11-29 — best price $19.992022-10-25 — best price $19.992023-03-06 — best price $4.992023-07-25 — best price $4.992024-01-13 — best price $19.992024-05-01 — best price $9.992024-07-11 — best price $19.992024-10-28 — best price $4.992025-03-13 — best price $3.992025-06-26 — best price $4.992025-09-23 — best price $19.992025-11-17 — best price $4.992026-02-28 — best price $19.992026-04-24 — best price $19.992026-08-09 — best price $19.992026-09-18 — best price $3.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

93142026-06-02 — 37 pageviews2026-06-06 — 48 pageviews2026-06-10 — 59 pageviews2026-06-14 — 34 pageviews2026-06-18 — 38 pageviews2026-06-22 — 34 pageviews2026-06-26 — 38 pageviews2026-06-30 — 65 pageviews2026-07-04 — 48 pageviews2026-07-08 — 22 pageviews2026-07-12 — 20 pageviews2026-07-16 — 36 pageviews2026-07-20 — 31 pageviews2026-07-24 — 25 pageviews2026-07-28 — 25 pageviews2026-08-01 — 33 pageviews2026-08-05 — 15 pageviews2026-08-09 — 29 pageviews2026-08-13 — 20 pageviews2026-08-17 — 46 pageviews2026-08-21 — 19 pageviews2026-08-25 — 32 pageviews2026-08-29 — 22 pageviews2026-09-02 — 18 pageviews2026-09-06 — 21 pageviews2026-09-10 — 14 pageviews2026-09-14 — 22 pageviews2026-09-18 — 22 pageviews2026-09-22 — 21 pageviews2026-09-26 — 30 pageviews2026-09-30 — 23 pageviews2026-10-04 — 23 pageviews2026-10-08 — 15 pageviews2026-10-11 — 22 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

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4 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German

Player tags

FMVNoirIndieComedyMysterySurrealAdventureCinematicCyberpunkDetective

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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