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Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum

Access Software · Nightdive Studios · 2014-06-12

SteamGOG

Adventure

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Third person

Releases: Jun 12, 2014 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), 1991 (DOS), Jun 12, 2014 (Mac), Jun 12, 2014 (Linux)

The year is 2033. Your name is Tex Murphy, Private Investigator in San Francisco.

Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum is a 2014 Adventure game priced at $0.89, with an estimated 50,000 .. 100,000 owners and a Mostly Positive review sentiment (70% of 64 reviews).

0
playing now
70%
positive of 64 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
76/100
IGDB user rating (7 ratings)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$0.89
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 19:00 UTC (census sample)

Martian Memorandum is a dystopian cyberpunk/noir graphic adventure game that was originally released in 1991 for MS-DOS. It was developed and published by Access Software. The game is the second in the series of Tex Murphy mysteries; its immediate sequel is Under a Killing Moon. The game is set in 2039, several years after Mean Streets.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 8 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 0% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 49% of 28,763 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-02

Estimated sales: 1.6k–3.8k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 64 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.89 at Steam (2014-12-12) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $5.99 · on sale 12 of 22 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
2220142026Week of 2014-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-15 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 20:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 11:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 19:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 18:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 16:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 07:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 15:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 23:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 14:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 05:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 19:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$5.99$0.892015-01-012026-08-212015-01-01 — best price $1.492015-12-01 — best price $5.992016-09-30 — best price $1.502017-06-22 — best price $1.492017-11-16 — best price $1.502018-05-30 — best price $5.992018-11-21 — best price $1.492019-10-28 — best price $1.192020-05-04 — best price $5.992020-06-09 — best price $5.992020-06-27 — best price $4.922020-07-21 — best price $5.992020-08-08 — best price $5.992020-08-27 — best price $5.992020-09-14 — best price $5.992020-10-06 — best price $5.992020-10-24 — best price $5.992020-11-12 — best price $5.992020-12-02 — best price $5.992020-12-22 — best price $1.492021-01-13 — best price $5.992021-02-01 — best price $5.992021-02-21 — best price $4.992021-03-11 — best price $4.992021-03-29 — best price $4.992021-04-17 — best price $4.992021-05-05 — best price $4.992021-05-23 — best price $4.992021-06-18 — best price $4.992021-10-11 — best price $4.992022-01-27 — best price $2.092022-06-26 — best price $4.402023-07-13 — best price $5.992024-07-11 — best price $5.992025-01-02 — best price $5.992025-08-05 — best price $4.402026-01-19 — best price $5.992026-06-25 — best price $1.192026-08-21 — best price $0.89
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

3432026-05-29 — 7 pageviews2026-06-02 — 18 pageviews2026-06-06 — 20 pageviews2026-06-10 — 29 pageviews2026-06-14 — 22 pageviews2026-06-18 — 16 pageviews2026-06-22 — 27 pageviews2026-06-26 — 24 pageviews2026-06-30 — 29 pageviews2026-07-04 — 9 pageviews2026-07-08 — 15 pageviews2026-07-12 — 13 pageviews2026-07-16 — 13 pageviews2026-07-20 — 16 pageviews2026-07-24 — 13 pageviews2026-07-28 — 7 pageviews2026-08-01 — 14 pageviews2026-08-05 — 3 pageviews2026-08-09 — 17 pageviews2026-08-13 — 13 pageviews2026-08-17 — 14 pageviews2026-08-21 — 14 pageviews2026-08-25 — 11 pageviews2026-08-29 — 10 pageviews2026-09-02 — 13 pageviews2026-09-06 — 6 pageviews2026-09-10 — 13 pageviews2026-09-14 — 12 pageviews2026-09-18 — 15 pageviews2026-09-22 — 9 pageviews2026-09-26 — 14 pageviews2026-09-30 — 12 pageviews2026-10-04 — 9 pageviews2026-10-07 — 9 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerFamily Sharing

Player tags

FMVNoir1990'sComedyClassicMysteryAdventureCyberpunkDetectiveDystopian

Census log

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

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