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Tex Murphy: Overseer

Access Software · Nightdive Studios · 2014-06-12

SteamGOG

Adventure

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

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.

Tex Murphy: Overseer is an Adventure game released in 2014, priced at $1.49, with an estimated owner base of 50,000 .. 100,000 and a Mixed review sentiment (53% of 68 reviews).

0
playing now
53%
positive of 68 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
74/100
IGDB user rating (8 ratings)
bronze
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$1.49
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 19:00 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

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 7 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 12% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 48% of 28,763 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-02

Estimated sales: 1.7k–4.1k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 68 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$9.99

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 71 of 107 observed days · $8.50 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

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

Players online

002026-09-15 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

$9.99$1.492015-01-012026-10-142015-01-01 — 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 $9.992026-09-05 — best price $1.992026-09-25 — best price $1.992026-10-14 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

4072026-05-29 — 14 pageviews2026-06-02 — 21 pageviews2026-06-06 — 40 pageviews2026-06-10 — 28 pageviews2026-06-14 — 28 pageviews2026-06-18 — 27 pageviews2026-06-22 — 28 pageviews2026-06-26 — 24 pageviews2026-06-30 — 38 pageviews2026-07-04 — 27 pageviews2026-07-08 — 19 pageviews2026-07-12 — 20 pageviews2026-07-16 — 25 pageviews2026-07-20 — 15 pageviews2026-07-24 — 25 pageviews2026-07-28 — 18 pageviews2026-08-01 — 19 pageviews2026-08-05 — 21 pageviews2026-08-09 — 22 pageviews2026-08-13 — 23 pageviews2026-08-17 — 31 pageviews2026-08-21 — 14 pageviews2026-08-25 — 28 pageviews2026-08-29 — 25 pageviews2026-09-02 — 13 pageviews2026-09-06 — 17 pageviews2026-09-10 — 14 pageviews2026-09-14 — 16 pageviews2026-09-18 — 21 pageviews2026-09-22 — 15 pageviews2026-09-26 — 17 pageviews2026-09-30 — 30 pageviews2026-10-04 — 19 pageviews2026-10-07 — 8 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

Player tags

FMVNoir1990'sComedySci-fiClassicAdventureCyberpunkDetectiveDystopian

Census log

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

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