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Tex Murphy: The Pandora Directive

Access Software · Nightdive Studios · 2014-06-12

SteamGOG

Adventure

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jul 31, 1996 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

It's April 2043 and you- as Tex Murphy, the last of the old-style gumshoes- find yourself racing against time in the most dangerous game of your life. What is the truth behind the rumored UFO crash at Roswell, New Mexico? Why did the military suddenly shut down and seal off the Roswell complex?

0
playing now
87%
positive of 92 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
76/100
IGDB user rating (9 ratings)
25h
to beat · rushed 15h · completionist 30h
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$1.49
steam price (US)

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

The Pandora Directive is the fourth installment in the Tex Murphy series of graphic adventure games produced by Access Software. After its creators reacquired the rights to the series, it was re-released on Good Old Games in July 2009 for Windows and in 2012 for macOS, and then released on Steam in 2014 with support for Windows, macOS, and Linux. In 2021, Big Finish Games announced that a remaster of The Pandora Directive is in development.

Health check

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  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 68% of 11,450 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 2.3k–5.5k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 92 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$4.99-50%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$4.99-50%

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 39 of 66 observed days · $3.50 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

202026-08-11 20:00 — 0 players2026-08-12 12:00 — 1 players2026-08-13 04:00 — 1 players2026-08-13 19:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 11:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 03:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 19:00 — 0 players2026-08-16 11:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 03:00 — 2 players2026-08-17 19:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 10:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 02:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 18:00 — 2 players2026-08-20 10:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 16:00 — 1 players2026-08-26 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-30 09:00 — 0 players
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 $9.992020-04-14 — best price $8.282020-06-30 — best price $9.992020-08-04 — best price $9.992020-09-03 — best price $9.992020-10-06 — best price $9.992020-11-06 — best price $9.992020-12-06 — best price $8.382021-01-17 — best price $9.992021-02-19 — best price $9.992021-03-22 — best price $7.492021-04-20 — best price $8.382021-05-24 — best price $8.382021-10-05 — best price $8.382022-02-03 — best price $9.992022-07-20 — best price $2.492022-11-21 — best price $9.992023-08-23 — best price $7.892024-01-25 — best price $1.492024-05-16 — best price $9.992024-08-09 — best price $9.992024-11-29 — best price $7.892025-02-23 — best price $7.342025-06-13 — best price $7.342025-09-24 — best price $7.342026-01-12 — best price $1.992026-05-30 — best price $9.992026-08-29 — best price $4.992026-08-30 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

61102026-05-29 — 25 pageviews2026-06-01 — 32 pageviews2026-06-04 — 34 pageviews2026-06-07 — 29 pageviews2026-06-10 — 57 pageviews2026-06-13 — 28 pageviews2026-06-16 — 20 pageviews2026-06-19 — 24 pageviews2026-06-22 — 28 pageviews2026-06-25 — 22 pageviews2026-06-28 — 30 pageviews2026-07-01 — 61 pageviews2026-07-04 — 44 pageviews2026-07-07 — 29 pageviews2026-07-10 — 26 pageviews2026-07-13 — 23 pageviews2026-07-16 — 28 pageviews2026-07-19 — 23 pageviews2026-07-22 — 29 pageviews2026-07-25 — 26 pageviews2026-07-28 — 27 pageviews2026-07-31 — 28 pageviews2026-08-03 — 28 pageviews2026-08-06 — 26 pageviews2026-08-09 — 21 pageviews2026-08-12 — 23 pageviews2026-08-15 — 15 pageviews2026-08-18 — 35 pageviews2026-08-21 — 17 pageviews2026-08-24 — 15 pageviews2026-08-25 — 28 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerFamily Sharing

Player tags

FMVNoir1990'sComedySci-fiClassicMysteryAdventureCyberpunkDetective

Census log

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

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