Recommended. Give it a try. IMPORTANT: install http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow/ or you probably won't get audio.

In short, it's low-tech, a bit glitchy (quitting and restarting the game fixed a few dead-ended puzzles for me) and it inherits the lousy controls of its predecessors BUT the warm humour and story really shine through and more than make up for its age, linearity and shortcomings - you can see why this series has a cult following.

Tex is a great character - one of many - and in addition to the humour and cheese this is ALSO a genuinely interesting sci-fi mystery/detective story.

Ends on a big cliff-hanger, fortunately (finally) rectified by the excellent 2014 Tex game 'Tesla Effect'!

This is the 5th Tex Murphy and the last Tex game that was made for 15 years before the reboot Tesla Effect. It is remake of the Mean Street so if you think the first Tex is "too old" to play then you have the change to experience it with newer game mechanics. I myself enjoyed the original Mean Street so I was looking forward to see how good remake they did.

It's much like the Under the killing moon and Pandora Directive, but minor changes have been made to the gameplay here and there, question list is now dynamic showing you what you have already asked and what not. Also it does sometimes remove some questions after asking, which I find little bit annoying as sometimes you might want to listen them again, so you need to reload the game. Aside from that the GUI and mechanics are better than on the last two Tex games. Pixel hunting is much easier this time because textures are much more clear.

When compared to other FMV-games the acting is decent, sometimes there is a little bit overacting but mostly they do fine work especially Chris Jones starring as Tex Murphy. Frank Schimming and the guy who is playing Gideons CEO all are doing very good job, so it feels like watching a good movie and If I remember correctly many of the actors have been also acting in some A-grade movies.

The puzzles are logic and need some out-of-the-box thinking, gladly there aren't any illogical game stopper like the Pandora Directive's last puzzle, but they aren't too easy so it takes some time to figure them out. The game has build-in hint system so you won't get stuck easily, but I strongly recommend to avoid using it as solving the puzzles by yourself is part of the Tex experience.

The story, which is mix of filmnoire and cyberpunk, is compelling and keeps you excited to the very ending to see where the story goes next. The ending clearly tells that they planned to make 6th Tex Murphy right after release of the Overseer, unfortunally Access ran into some financial problems and got bought by Microsoft and got canceled, but thanks to the kickstarter we finally got the Tesla Effect, the sequel to the Overseer.

There seems to have some problems to get the game working. I have tried this with Windows 7 and 10 and got it work on both. You need to install ffdshow to get the cutscenes to work and install MIDI emulator to get music to work. Just follow the guide: http://www.gog.com/forum/tex_murphy_series/got_overseer_dvdversion_working_wonderfully_with_quality_81x64_midi_outputfinally
Even after these fixes on the Windows 10 the game might crash on some puzzles, I didn't find any fix for that other then transferring the saves to my Windows 7 machine where the game seems to be more stable and didn't crash on anything.

So aside the technical problems on modern systems the game is excellent FMV game which I can recommend to anyone who likes filmnoire and detective stories.

For Windows 10 (and possibly the other windows) I got Overseer to work using K-lite codec pack then its Codek Tweak tool where I clicked on preferred splitter and choosed LAV SPLITTER for .MPEG. Finally click on PREFERRED DECODERS and choose LAV VIDEO for MPEG-2.

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Video/Codec-Packs-Video-Codecs/KLite-Codec-Pack.shtml

Game has music and graphics issues that Night Dive did not bother to fix before releasing this game (with no mention AT ALL on the store page).

I was able to fix the music issues but not the graphical ones (transparent/missing textures).

If your going to release a game on Steam you TEST IT in QA before releasing it. You don't just release it as is, without even a mention. Very bad form Night Dive. I'll think twice about buying games from you again in future after this. Lost quite a bit of respect in you.

Sound does not work on Windows 7 64 Bit. A "fix" on the discussion boards loads adware "vopackage.exe". Beware!

Later addition: Now the sound works, i followed a thread in the discussion board and installed some codecs. But this installed adware on my system, ... I hope, that the publisher will fix this problem. Until then "not recommended".

First thing first: You need the K-Lite codec and FFDSHOW to be able to play this without issues. That being said, Tex Murphy: Overseer is the 5th Tex Murphy game and probably one of the best FMV games ever released, featuring actual gameplay with lots and lots of dialogues.

Overseer is basically a remake of Mean Streets without the ridiculous flight simulator and it ends with a cliffhanger which was resolved 15 years later with Tesla Effect.

A sci-fi noir adventure of old at its best.

I am a recent fan of the Tex Murphy series, and am immediately hooked. I wanted to collect all the games immediately but I can't reccomend the purchase of this game.

I can't comment on the content or playability of the game, because the actual download itself is broken. If you are running a current gen system, this game will not work without multiple downloads of other programs to fix bugs and crashes. The developer has released a beta which he claims fixes some of the problems, but in actuality it now makes my game crash to the desktop upon launch.

Do not purchase this game.

If the Steam store had any conscience they would pull this title until a fully working copy could be created.

I spent almost an entire week trying to get this game to run. I tried Windows 10 and Ubuntu with every available version of Proton. Then I tried VMs running: Windows 95, 98, Me, 2000, XP, 7, and Vista. I tried every possible way to install the esoteric video codec used by the game's cutscenes. I tried a "borrowed" GOG version of the game, alleged to have re-encoded cutscenes. I have never in my life tried so many ways to play an old game and ultimately fail. Either the videos won't play or it'll crash when in interaction mode. You can't seem to have both.

This game should NOT BE FOR SALE because it DOES NOT RUN 😤

Great adventure game(cmon it's tex) with couple of tehnical problems but they are minor. Im runing win7 64bit and amd gpu and i don't have any problems.

I loved this game and if you live in 1998 I would highly recommend it (if you don't have the better looking DVD version - this is a CD release). Even the awesome Nightdive Studios didn't fix the compatibility issues and the game does not work properly on modern machines. If you jump through enough loopholes and get it running, the graphics are corrupted and cannot be considered playable. Skip it, even if you are a fan...