Games like Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum
If Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum is your kind of game, the closest matches are Tex Murphy: Under a Killing Moon, Tex Murphy: Overseer and Tex Murphy: The Pandora Directive — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, mysterious and nostalgic. 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.
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Tex Murphy: Under a Killing Moon
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum.
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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: Overseer
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum.
Second-strongest match for Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum.
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: The Pandora Directive
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum.
Third-strongest match for Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum.
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: Mean Streets
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum.
Ranked #4 for Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum.
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.
Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum.
Ranked #5 for Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum.
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.
Neon Noir
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Ranked #6 for Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum.
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.
The Space Bar
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Ranked #7 for Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum.
Play as Alias Node, a human detective working on planet, Armpit VI. Your assignment? Catch a shifty criminal, wanted for grand theft and murder, before whatever it is, escapes to another world!
Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum.
Ranked #8 for Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum.
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.
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Tex Murphy: Mean Streets
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum.
Reviewers of Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum.
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 an atmospheric mood with Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum.
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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.
Beneath a Steel Sky (1994)
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Shares pixel hunting and an atmospheric mood with Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum.
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After being abducted by brutal soldiers and his kinfolk butchered, Robert Foster finds himself in Union City - a vast metropolis under the tyranny of a fascist AI. Alone, save for the circuit board of his best friend, Foster must discover the sinister truth - and why they specifically came for him.
Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum.
Reviewers of Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum.
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.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~83% under Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
The Test
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Priced ~67% under Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~75% under Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~83% under Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Sally Face - Episode One
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Priced ~50% under Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum.
Delve into a dark adventure following the boy with a prosthetic face and a tragic past. Unravel the sinister mysteries of Sally's world to find the truth that lies hidden beneath the shadows.
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
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Priced ~67% under Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Downwell
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Priced ~50% under Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum.
Downwell is a curious game about a young person venturing down a well in search of untold treasures with only his Gunboots to protect him.
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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 Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum.
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.
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum.
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.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum.
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.
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
There Is No Game: Jam Edition 2015
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum.
A little game that’s not a game, winner of an old game jam that nobody’s ever heard of. So DON'T INSTALL IT!
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Tex Murphy: Under a Killing Moon
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum.
Another title from Access Software, the studio behind Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum. Shares Adventure with Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum.
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: Mean Streets
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum.
Another title from Access Software, the studio behind Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum. Shares Adventure with Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum.
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: The Pandora Directive
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum.
Another title from Access Software, the studio behind Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum. Shares Adventure with Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum.
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: Overseer
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum.
Another title from Access Software, the studio behind Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum. Shares Adventure with Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum.
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.
Frequently asked about Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum
- How much does Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum cost?
- Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum is listed on Steam at 5.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum are Tex Murphy: Under a Killing Moon, Tex Murphy: Overseer, Tex Murphy: The Pandora Directive.
- Who developed Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum?
- Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum was developed by Access Software and published by Nightdive Studios, Atari.
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