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Tex Murphy: Mean Streets

Access Software · Nightdive Studios · 2014-06-12

SteamGOG

ActionAdventure

Franchise: Tex Murphy · Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Third person

Releases: Jun 12, 2014 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jan 31, 1989 (Nintendo Entertainment System), 1990 (Amiga), Jun 12, 2014 (Mac), 1989 (Commodore C64/128/MAX), 1990 (Atari ST/STE)

The year is 2033. Your name is Tex Murphy, Private Investigator in San Francisco. You've been hired by the beautiful daughter of a university professor to uncover the facts about his death. As you begin your investigation you uncover the deaths of several prominent members of the scientific community.

Tex Murphy: Mean Streets is an Action and Adventure game released in 2014, priced at $0.89, with an estimated 50,000 to 100,000 owners and a Mostly Positive review sentiment (72% of 108 reviews).

0
playing now
72%
positive of 108 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
68/100
IGDB user rating (7 ratings)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$0.89
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 11:00 UTC (census sample)

Mean Streets is a graphic adventure game developed and published by Access Software for MS-DOS in 1989 exclusively in North America. It was ported to the Commodore 64, Atari ST, and Amiga in 1989 and 1990 by The Code Monkeys. Atari ST and Amiga ports were only released in Europe. The game, set in a dystopian cyberpunk neo-noir world, is the first in the series of Tex Murphy mysteries; its immediate sequel is Martian Memorandum. In 1998, Mean Streets was remade as Tex Murphy: Overseer.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 9 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 0% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 37% of 28,121 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 2.7k–6.5k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 108 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.89 at Steam (2014-12-12) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

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

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
3320142026Week of 2014-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2014-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-15 20:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 19:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 11:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 18:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 02:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 09:00 — 1 players2026-09-27 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 08:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 15:00 — 1 players2026-10-02 23:00 — 1 players2026-10-04 07:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 14:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 05:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 13:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-15 11:00 — 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 $1.192020-04-27 — best price $4.922020-06-07 — best price $4.922020-06-26 — best price $1.492020-07-15 — best price $5.992020-08-01 — best price $5.392020-08-20 — best price $5.392020-09-07 — best price $5.392020-09-25 — best price $5.392020-10-16 — best price $5.392020-11-04 — best price $5.392020-11-22 — best price $5.392020-12-12 — best price $5.992021-01-01 — best price $4.402021-01-21 — best price $4.992021-02-09 — best price $5.992021-03-01 — best price $5.992021-03-19 — best price $5.992021-04-07 — best price $5.992021-04-25 — best price $5.992021-05-13 — best price $5.992021-05-31 — best price $5.992021-07-03 — best price $4.992021-11-25 — best price $4.402022-01-29 — best price $4.992022-07-01 — best price $4.692023-11-28 — best price $5.992024-08-02 — best price $4.692025-02-17 — best price $5.992025-08-11 — best price $5.992026-03-13 — best price $5.992026-07-13 — best price $0.892026-08-21 — best price $0.89
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

70102026-05-29 — 19 pageviews2026-06-02 — 29 pageviews2026-06-06 — 40 pageviews2026-06-10 — 37 pageviews2026-06-14 — 42 pageviews2026-06-18 — 28 pageviews2026-06-22 — 25 pageviews2026-06-26 — 23 pageviews2026-06-30 — 41 pageviews2026-07-04 — 30 pageviews2026-07-08 — 17 pageviews2026-07-12 — 22 pageviews2026-07-16 — 22 pageviews2026-07-20 — 20 pageviews2026-07-24 — 20 pageviews2026-07-28 — 19 pageviews2026-08-01 — 30 pageviews2026-08-05 — 21 pageviews2026-08-09 — 30 pageviews2026-08-13 — 19 pageviews2026-08-17 — 44 pageviews2026-08-21 — 19 pageviews2026-08-25 — 29 pageviews2026-08-29 — 20 pageviews2026-09-02 — 10 pageviews2026-09-06 — 18 pageviews2026-09-10 — 24 pageviews2026-09-14 — 17 pageviews2026-09-18 — 28 pageviews2026-09-22 — 14 pageviews2026-09-26 — 23 pageviews2026-09-30 — 45 pageviews2026-10-04 — 25 pageviews2026-10-08 — 26 pageviews2026-10-12 — 16 pageviews2026-10-14 — 16 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerFamily Sharing

Player tags

Noir1980sActionClassicMysteryAdventureCyberpunkDetectiveDystopian Open World

Census log

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

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