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Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure

Big Finish Games · 2014-05-08

SteamGOG

AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player

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.

0
playing now
87%
positive of 1.3k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
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)
$19.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 03:00 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.

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  • · Top 27% of 11,362 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 33k–79k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,323 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$3.99-80%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$3.99-80%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

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

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 30 of 50 observed days · $0.18 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

502026-08-06 23:00 — 4 players2026-08-07 07:00 — 2 players2026-08-07 15:00 — 1 players2026-08-07 23:00 — 3 players2026-08-08 07:00 — 1 players2026-08-08 15:00 — 1 players2026-08-08 23:00 — 3 players2026-08-09 07:00 — 2 players2026-08-09 15:00 — 3 players2026-08-09 23:00 — 2 players2026-08-10 07:00 — 2 players2026-08-10 15:00 — 4 players2026-08-10 23:00 — 4 players2026-08-11 07:00 — 2 players2026-08-11 15:00 — 1 players2026-08-12 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 06:00 — 2 players2026-08-15 14:00 — 3 players2026-08-16 22:00 — 3 players2026-08-18 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 13:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 21:00 — 2 players2026-08-22 04:00 — 2 players2026-08-23 12:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 19:00 — 1 players2026-08-26 04:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 12:00 — 5 players2026-08-28 20:00 — 1 players2026-08-30 03:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$19.99$3.812015-01-012026-08-272015-01-01 — 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 $19.992026-08-27 — best price $3.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

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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