Games like Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure
If Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure is your kind of game, the closest matches are Tex Murphy: Under a Killing Moon, Tex Murphy: The Pandora Directive and Mandated Fate — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its modernized controls improve accessibility, atmospheric and funny. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure: Tex Murphy is the last of the hard-boiled gumshoe detectives living in dystopian post-World War III San Francisco in the 2050s. Tex is an honest and good-natured private investigator with a penchant for bourbon, cigarettes and getting himself into trouble.
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Tex Murphy: Under a Killing Moon
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Shares hint system and an atmospheric mood with Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure.
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Enter the virtual world of Under A Killing Moon, where it is December 2042, and you, as Tex Murphy, must stop the forces of evil before they destroy mankind and rob you of your next unemployment check. This thrilling and hilarious adventure is unlike anything you've seen before.
Tex Murphy: The Pandora Directive
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Shares hint system and an atmospheric mood with Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure.
Second-strongest match for Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure.
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?
Mandated Fate
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Third-strongest match for Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure.
A dystopian future-noir social thriller. As an Imperial Inspector, navigate a towering technocratic empire where loyalty is survival. Investigate secrets, manipulate factions, and make brutal moral choices. In this alternate history, will you uphold the regime or subvert the truth?
Eclipse: Echo of Dimension
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Ranked #4 for Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure.
Eclipse: Echo of Dimension is an adventure game. Players explore the ruins of an alien civilization, discovering and listening to fragments of poetry from another dimension, searching for clues to the lost remnants of an extraterrestrial civilization, where vast distances shrink to mere steps.
Neon Noir
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Ranked #5 for Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure.
Neon Noir is a cyberpunk visual novel with interactive mechanics. It is set in the megalopolis of New Devon in the year 2169, where large private corporations have more power than the government. The player follows the crimes investigated by Colden, a Snatcher.
Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure.
Ranked #6 for Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure.
Armed with your investigative skills and the tools of the Blade Runner trade, you'll be immersed in a world that lives and breathes around you with breakthrough lighting and visual effects. Your ability to survive will be put to the test in the richest game environment ever created.
Tales of Tiolis
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Ranked #7 for Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure.
A mystical action-detective game immersed in Soviet retro-futurism. Solve puzzles and cross the line between the real and mental worlds. Use stealth, parkour, and chases to help the heroes reach their goals. Uncover the deep secrets of a small town called Tiolis.
Agarta
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Ranked #8 for Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure.
Agarta has been designed to show you how valuable and important every decision you make in your individual life, every choice you make is. Because every choice you make is also a renunciation and you cannot undo any decision.
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Tex Murphy: Mean Streets
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure.
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The year is 2033. Your name is Tex Murphy, Private Investigator in San Francisco. You've been hired by the beautiful daughter of a university professor to uncover the facts about his death. As you begin your investigation you uncover the deaths of several prominent members of the scientific community.
Tex Murphy: Under a Killing Moon
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Shares hint system and an atmospheric mood with Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure.
Reviewers of Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure.
Enter the virtual world of Under A Killing Moon, where it is December 2042, and you, as Tex Murphy, must stop the forces of evil before they destroy mankind and rob you of your next unemployment check. This thrilling and hilarious adventure is unlike anything you've seen before.
Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure.
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The year is 2033. Your name is Tex Murphy, Private Investigator in San Francisco.
Her Story
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Reviewers of Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure.
A woman is interviewed seven times by the police. Search the video database and explore hundreds of authentic clips to discover her story in this groundbreaking and award winning narrative game.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure at current Steam store prices.
Terraria
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Priced ~50% under Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~75% under Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Lethal Company
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Priced ~50% under Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
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Priced ~50% under Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Portal 2
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Priced ~50% under Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure.
The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~75% under Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
PEAK
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Priced ~60% under Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
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Frequently asked about Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure
- Does Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure run on Steam Deck?
- Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure cost?
- Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure are Tex Murphy: Under a Killing Moon, Tex Murphy: The Pandora Directive, Mandated Fate.
- Who developed Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure?
- Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure was developed by Big Finish Games.
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