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Tex Murphy: The Pandora Directive

Access Software · Nightdive Studios · 2014-06-12

SteamGOG

Adventure

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

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?

Tex Murphy: The Pandora Directive is an Adventure game released in 2014, priced at $1.49, with an estimated owner base of 50,000 .. 100,000 and a Very Positive sentiment (86% of 96 reviews).

0
playing now
86%
positive of 96 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
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)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Unsupported
$1.49
steam price (US)

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

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 14 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 27% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 41% of 28,763 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 2.4k–5.8k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 96 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 66 of 100 observed days · $8.50 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
4420142026Week of 2014-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2015-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 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

302026-09-15 04:00 — 1 players2026-09-16 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 20:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 04:00 — 1 players2026-09-20 11:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 19:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 02:00 — 1 players2026-09-24 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 17:00 — 1 players2026-09-27 01:00 — 1 players2026-09-28 08:00 — 1 players2026-09-29 16:00 — 3 players2026-09-30 23:00 — 2 players2026-10-02 07:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 14:00 — 3 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 — 1 players2026-10-11 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 20:00 — 2 players2026-10-14 03:00 — 1 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 $9.992020-04-14 — 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 $4.992026-09-18 — best price $4.992026-10-08 — best price $9.992026-10-14 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

59102026-05-29 — 25 pageviews2026-06-02 — 44 pageviews2026-06-06 — 39 pageviews2026-06-10 — 57 pageviews2026-06-14 — 31 pageviews2026-06-18 — 22 pageviews2026-06-22 — 28 pageviews2026-06-26 — 27 pageviews2026-06-30 — 44 pageviews2026-07-04 — 44 pageviews2026-07-08 — 20 pageviews2026-07-12 — 28 pageviews2026-07-16 — 28 pageviews2026-07-20 — 24 pageviews2026-07-24 — 17 pageviews2026-07-28 — 27 pageviews2026-08-01 — 26 pageviews2026-08-05 — 10 pageviews2026-08-09 — 21 pageviews2026-08-13 — 22 pageviews2026-08-17 — 27 pageviews2026-08-21 — 17 pageviews2026-08-25 — 28 pageviews2026-08-29 — 22 pageviews2026-09-02 — 24 pageviews2026-09-06 — 30 pageviews2026-09-10 — 25 pageviews2026-09-14 — 21 pageviews2026-09-18 — 29 pageviews2026-09-22 — 16 pageviews2026-09-26 — 27 pageviews2026-09-30 — 31 pageviews2026-10-04 — 31 pageviews2026-10-07 — 12 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

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Player tags

FMVNoir1990'sComedySci-fiClassicMysteryAdventureCyberpunkDetective

Census log

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

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