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Tex Murphy: Overseer

Access Software · Nightdive Studios · 2014-06-12

SteamGOG

Adventure

Modes: Single player

Releases: Feb 28, 1998 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

The client is drop-dead gorgeous. Her father is just plain dead—of an apparent suicide. She's certain he was murdered and is willing to do anything to prove it.

0
playing now
53%
positive of 66 reviews
Mixed
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
74/100
IGDB user rating (8 ratings)
bronze
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$1.49
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 09:00 UTC (census sample)

Tex Murphy: Overseer is the fifth installment in the Tex Murphy series of graphic adventure games produced by Access Software. In it, the player controls Private Investigator Tex Murphy as he recounts the story of his first case to his girlfriend, Chelsee Bando. Like the previous two Tex Murphy games, Under a Killing Moon and The Pandora Directive, Overseer combined the use of full motion video (FMV) with 3D environments.

Health check

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  • · Top 73% of 11,486 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.6k–4.0k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 66 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$1.99-80%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$1.99-80%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $1.49 at Steam (2014-12-12) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 43 of 73 observed days · $0.50 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

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Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$9.99$1.492015-01-012026-08-302015-01-01 — best price $2.492015-12-01 — best price $9.992016-08-16 — best price $9.992017-06-21 — best price $9.992018-01-04 — best price $9.992018-08-13 — best price $2.492019-11-01 — best price $9.992020-04-27 — best price $8.282020-06-30 — best price $8.282020-07-31 — best price $9.992020-08-31 — best price $9.992020-10-03 — best price $9.992020-11-03 — best price $9.992020-12-03 — best price $8.382021-01-06 — best price $8.382021-02-09 — best price $9.992021-03-14 — best price $9.992021-04-11 — best price $8.382021-05-15 — best price $8.382021-06-25 — best price $7.342021-12-24 — best price $7.342022-06-14 — best price $7.892022-11-01 — best price $9.992023-08-02 — best price $9.992023-11-27 — best price $4.992024-04-12 — best price $9.992024-07-23 — best price $7.892024-10-26 — best price $7.892025-01-20 — best price $7.892025-05-16 — best price $7.342025-08-15 — best price $9.992025-11-19 — best price $4.992026-03-26 — best price $9.992026-07-09 — best price $9.992026-08-30 — best price $1.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

Player tags

FMVNoir1990'sComedySci-fiClassicAdventureCyberpunkDetectiveDystopian

Census log

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