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Experience the life of a hard-boiled gumshoe detective for free!
Explore the dystopian post-World War III San Francisco in the 2050s as Tex Murphy and puzzle your way out of trouble.
Download the Tesla Effect demo for a taste of Tex Murphy's latest and greatest adventure, and then take advantage of the limited time pre-purchase offer!

About This Game

-Winner of Best Character from Adventuregamers.com as well as 10 of their Readers Choice awards including Best Story and Best Adventure of 2014.

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 will finally be back in 2014 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.

Tesla Effect shines with an eclectic cast of actors, including:
• Todd Bridges (Willis from Diff'rent Strokes...ask someone older if you don't know what that is)
• June "TV's Greatest Mom" Lockhart (ask someone even older if you don't know who that is)
• Larry "Soup Nazi" Thomas (you all have seen Seinfeld, right?)
• Kevin "Tom Servo" Murphy (Mystery Science Theater 3000)
• The original Tex himself, Chris Jones

System Requirements

Windows

Mac OS X

Minimum:

OS: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8
Processor: 2 GHz Dual Core
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA 200 Series
DirectX: Version 9.0c
Storage: 15 GB available space
Sound Card: Direct X 9.0c compatible device

Minimum:

OS: 10.6.8
Processor: Intel Core 2 duo
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 320 M
Storage: 16 GB available space

Recommended:

OS: 10.7.5
Processor: Intel Core i5
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 4000
Storage: 16 GB available space

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Posted: 17 August

Its a corny detective game, from the time ive played, its very enjoyable.

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Posted: 11 August

Another fun Tex Murphy game. If you played them back in the 90's, it's the exact same experience. Absolutely worth the cash for the campy FMV experience.

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Posted: 4 August

Wow! Seriously good plot, fun gameplay, interresting puzzels and surprisingly good acting! Loved this game! Having never played a Tex Murphy game before I found it quite bizzare at first but the more i played the more i fell in love!

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Posted: 24 July

This game is hard for all the wrong reasons, which sucked the joy out of the great story.

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Posted: 23 July

This one should've been a Telltale game. Excellent wrtiting, characters and acting, sadly spoiled by some pixel hunting. Easily recommended if you dig the style.

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Posted: 20 July

First Tex Murphy I played and I love it. The FMV bit is excellent and the writing superb.
Game is loose enough to make you think but the reference to previous games and stories is a bit of a pain when you haven't played them but the main character having amnesia works well as he can't remember them either.

Highly recomended 10/10

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Posted: 20 July

This was an overall fun game, definitely worth the play :)

Except for a few behind the corner, underneath something items to find, it was a good play.

Thumbs up :)

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Posted: 17 July

Retro? Check
Cheesy Lines? Double-Check
Mildly Entertaining Plotline? Check.

I was surprised with how much I enjoyed the over-acting and the game itself did provide a lot of entertainment.

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Posted: 11 July

First game I actually paid full price for on Steam and a bargain at that, but I am a die hard fan.

Started with Under A Killing Moon which peaked my interest and found the previous games on disk at a local computer shoppe. Was always impressed that they pushed the envelope on the technology at the time. When Mean Streets and Martian Memorandum were made they were using the built in motherboard speaker to create speech in the game.

Pandora was my favorite until Tesla Effect. I liked Overseer too, but had problems with some bugs.

Tesla Effect worked perfectly for me and finally got a conclusion to Overseer going the Cheslea path first run through.

Thanks to Chris Jones and Aaron and everyone that made this game happen.

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Posted: 10 July

Tesla Effect is overall a fun adventure and a great tribute to the original series of games.
Moving around is now done in a nice FPS-style which definitely makes it easier.
The puzzles can be quite difficult, also in a large part due to the fact that they're part of the game world instead of on an overlay or a new screen. Unfortunately this means sometimes the puzzles become a bit too zoomed out to easily read, at least on a television screen.
There are a lot of references to the old games, but I think that if you love cheesy FMV games you'll still get a kick out of this one even if you haven't played any of the previous ones.
As a fan, I could buy and play one of these every year or so.

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Hellios

607 products in account

21 reviews

Posted: 20 July

This was an overall fun game, definitely worth the play :)

Except for a few behind the corner, underneath something items to find, it was a good play.

Thumbs up :)

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david3907

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26 reviews

Posted: 20 July

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psyGressiw

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Posted: 23 July

This one should've been a Telltale game. Excellent wrtiting, characters and acting, sadly spoiled by some pixel hunting. Easily recommended if you dig the style.

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warhorus

324 products in account

4 reviews

Posted: 11 August

Another fun Tex Murphy game. If you played them back in the 90's, it's the exact same experience. Absolutely worth the cash for the campy FMV experience.

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Pandora626

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Posted: 4 August

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Silent

232 products in account

20 reviews

Posted: 7 May, 2014

Damn, they really delivered. If you liked the old games even a little bit you are going to love Tesla Effect. This is pure fan service and a pretty awesome game. It's nice to be back on Chandler Avenue.

I love it.

Pros:
- Humor
- Entertaining story and characters
- Awesome FMVs
- Cool locations

Cons:
- In game graphics not really up to date

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STooGE$$$$, Carmine Ocean

550 products in account

24 reviews

Posted: 18 October, 2014

Just like old times.

Can't remember the last modern game that had FMV (maybe C&C series). The video and composite green screening was very well done. Film was shot on a Canon C100 and the quality was just right. It is so fresh to have an old technology.
Acting was terribly great!
Story was fun and tied things together.
Great homages to all past games.
Puzzles were fun but in my taste too easy for a Tex game.
Fun easter eggs.
Fair amount of gameplay, but could always ask for more.

At some point will try some of the other game paths. There are 5 possible endings, which always makes a game fun to play again.

The success of this game should show that FMV is no longer a dead technology; quality video and compositing should open up a world of interactive fiction/non-fiction. I expect to see another Tex and really hope others try to borrow from this design.

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Maestro23

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1 review

Posted: 7 May, 2014

WOW what a GAME!

I played the originals back in the 90's?. This is just fantastic old school gaming. There is a magic about these types of games that are missing from todays games. The 3d environments are not that great at all and probably the bigger issue is seeing peoples eyes move as they are reading the "Q" cards during the investigation scenes (which is unfortunate). But that does NOT matter here. This game HOOKS you and wants you to keep going.

I miss these types of games, and I hope this brings back (if nothing else) a niche resurgence. Be it FMV or great story-telling adventures. I just can't believe how much I forgot what it was like to care about a game I am playing. THANK YOU TO THE TEX MURPHY TEAM! WELL DONE!

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Kane2007uk

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1 review

Posted: 7 May, 2014

Absolutely fantastic, well worth both backing and the long wait since Overseer, I am officially booking a couple of weeks off work to play this in peace.

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KindaGamey

69 products in account

5 reviews

Posted: 31 October, 2014

The only game where I've audibly cheered at the ending was a game I had bought my non-game-playing father for his birthday, Under A Killing Moon, on CD-ROM back in the 90's. He never played it, but I did. I'm 41 now. This game brought it all back with such a great fedora-tip to the golden age of FMV games and Tex Murphy fans alike ('It sure is good to have the ol' Muyph back!') Now that I've finished the game and my brain isn't stimulated by puzzles and witty banter, I sadly go back to my FPS killing and sigh and wish I was booting up Tesla effect again for the first time. It's a great experience for Tex fans or newcomers, I'm so glad you guys got the chance to come back for one more hurrah and thank you so much! (I didn't know about the Kickstarter or I would have chipped in!) Also, whichever one of you is the conspiracy-nut you did a great job on the Tesla research, good stuff. p.s. Tesla Effect FMV trailer is best trailer.

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