Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure overview

Overview

Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure comes from Big Finish Games and is published by Big Finish Games. It arrived on Steam on May 8, 2014, and it sits naturally among Single-player, Steam Trading Cards, and Family Sharing. SteamPulse tracks it across Windows, macOS, and Steam so readers get a quick useful snapshot, not just a wall of numbers.

Players and reviews

Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure's latest SteamPulse observation recorded 0 players at 23 September 2026 - 04:24:51 UTC, with a tracked peak near 7. This peak is the highest value in the available SteamPulse record and may not include activity before tracking began. Player reaction is 87% positive across 1,311 reviews.

Language and system requirements

Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure is available in 5 languages including:

3 regional rating boards including dejus, steam germany, and igrs

Sales, recommendations, and streams

Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure has sold up to 69,389 units and has 628 Steam recommendations. The estimated VGI revenue is $936,000. On Twitch, 0 streamers are live with around 0 total watchers.

Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure overview details

Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure combines live player counts with reviews, pricing, platform support, Store metadata, dated player history, media, recent news, and related games.

Steam Store description

Winner of Best Character from as well as 10 of their Readers Choice awards including Best Story and Best Adventure of 2014 . Tesla Effect is a cyberpunk noir detective mystery adventure set in a dystopian post World War III San Francisco. Tex Murphy wakes up – disoriented and head pounding – on the fire escape outside his office atop the Ritz Hotel. Another typical morning for the last of the old-school detectives. Except it isn’t. What starts out as the worst hangover in history becomes a baffling nightmare: something – or someone – has erased Tex’s memory of the past seven years. Motivated by lost love, revenge, and the world’s strongest coffee blend, Tex must retrace his own steps into a maze of unsolved murders, hidden agendas, and lost technologies of Nikola Tesla. Only by solving the mysteries of his past can Tex hope to regain his memory in time to restore what’s been lost…and stop a terrifying future. Tex Murphy is finally back after leaving loyal fans on a cliffhanger for almost 16 years, so come get acquainted in a world filled with dangerous dames, morally ambiguous characters, and lots of mysteries to be solved. Tesla Effect upgrades the classic Tex Murphy experience with HD live-action -- that's right, for those of you not old enough to have played adventure games in the 90s, Tex Murphy embraces the lost art of green screen full-motion video as it interacts with fully modeled 3D environments. Players will be challenged with logic puzzles, interactive dialogue, branching storylines, and alternate endings. Stunning full-motion video (FMV) presented in 2K resol…

SteamPulse editorial summary

Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure is listed as a game with $19.99. It supports Windows and macOS, belongs to Single-player, Steam Trading Cards, and Family Sharing, and is associated with Adventure and Indie. SteamPulse's latest observation records 0 players at 23 September 2026 - 04:24:51 UTC, a tracked peak of 7, and 87% positive reviews.

Overview tags

FMVAdventureDetectiveNoirCyberpunkMysteryIndieFirst-PersonAtmosphericMultiple EndingsDystopianComedyCinematicSurrealNonlinear

Content descriptors

Game features some revealing attire, use of tobacco and alcohol, mild or insinuated violence (fights and scuffles), and mild limited profanity/cursing.

Support and legal notes

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