Overboard! on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information
GET AWAY WITH MURDER. Highly replayable detective game where you're the one whodunnit. From the creators of 80 Days and Heaven's Vault.
Overboard! is a adventure, interactive fiction and detective game
developed and published by inkle Ltd.
Released on June 02nd 2021 is available on Windows and MacOS
in 2 languages: English and Spanish - Spain.
It has received 566 reviews of which 514 were positive and 52 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.5 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 12.49€ on Steam.
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System requirements
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS *: Windows XP+
- Processor: 2 Ghz with SSE2 instruction set support
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: Version 9.0c
- Storage: 200 MB available space
MacOS
- OS: OS X 10.14+
- Processor: 2.9 GHz Intel Core i5
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: Intel Iris Graphics 6100 1536 MB
- Storage: 200 MB available space
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Overboard! is a subversion of the increasingly popular mystery/detective game, which sees you trying to get away with a murder instead of solving one. Having killed your husband aboard a boat bound for America in the 1930s, you have to navigate conversations with the cast of characters occupying the rest of the ship without incriminating yourself for the rest of the voyage. Like most mystery games, a lot of what goes on in Overboard! is purely knowledge-gated, so this review will be vague in order to avoid ruining the game by simply revealing the paths to getting away with it. This is a great game. It's self-aware about the genre it's in, which is what makes its upending of that so effective. The setting and time period are so evocative of an Agatha-Christie-esque murder mystery, adding so much emphasis to the novelty of playing the murderer. It's a stylish game, with good music and a slick artstyle, and the characters are well-written insofar as their dialogue is natural, and sufficiently funny where it needs to be. It's also pleasingly open-ended. Games like Overboard! - in which you are presented with an ultimate end-goal and simply told "do this by any means necessary" - often run the risk of feeling frustrating when it turns out your first instinct isn't actually possible. Yet in spite of the visual-novel-like gameplay format, I never encountered this issue much with Overboard! Generally, whatever might come to mind as a logical course of action is accounted for within the options presented for any given scenario. To this end, the game is advertised as being "highly replayable." You're encouraged to explore all the different branches different choices can lead you down, and even upon successfully evading capture, you're told you can go back and try for better endings, aiming to not just get away with your crime, but to profit from the situation. There's even an objective tracker that updates based on what happened in your previous run to poke you into further exploring things you stumbled across, which is a great addition. So yes - in this sense, the game is highly replayable. However, 100%ing the game - getting every ending and exploring every story branch for every achievement - took me just three hours. This is the big drawback that makes me hesitant to recommend Overboard! £11.39 is a pretty big ask for a 3-hour game. And a 3-hour visual novel, at that - while other short games could at least be run back through for the gameplay, everything in Overboard! is knowledge-gated, so if you were to try and "replay" it in the traditional sense of the word, you'd be done in about 5 minutes, since you already know the optimal route that the game has you trying to discover. And that 3-hour figure is assuming you 100% it - if you're just concerned with getting to the ending, you could probably be done in 90 minutes. Yes, Steam sales are common and if you can get it cheaply, I'd highly recommend it, but the base price is just too high for what's in the game, especially relative to other indies - Overboard! is asking for about the same amount as Hollow Knight, for reference. In a vacuum, Overboard! is a great game - it's a stylish and original experience that plays with its genre brilliantly. But for the asking price, it's tough to recommend, considering how short the game is. I wouldn't typically hold the need to wait for a sale against a game so much, but three hours of content is a very small game. The value proposition offered by the base price is simply not good enough, as enjoyable as the game is. 6.5/10 - A stylish and witty game that successfully flips the mystery genre on its head, made hard to recommend by an extremely short runtime and a comparatively high price tag.
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I found this game because I was watching Youtube videos about mystery game design. I saw a talk from one of the devs discussing how most mystery games are about clues and suspects unveiling a single fixed story, and instead, they built a game where you, the player, use clues and create suspects to build up your own story of events. Then, the game uses the "parlor scene" to bring it all together. I was excited to play it, and it sure delivered. The game loop is addictive. It's dark and funny, and encourages you to uncover more secrets about your fellow passengers--so you can use those secrets to your advantage! I like that they show you which option you picked on your last play. It makes it easier to see your goals through. I love it.
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I enjoyed it. I finished it surprisingly quickly, even in getting 100% achievements, but I suspect you could play a LOT longer if you don't piece things together too quickly. The narrative style is enjoyable and only had a few errors that I noticed, and the gameplay loop is just long enough where it isn't fast-paced, but doesn't drag on forever either. If you like interactive fiction games and puzzles, you're in the right place.
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A remarkably fun game about getting away with murder - pretty much exactly what it says on the tin! Nothing's ever as simple as it looks, and there's just enough moving parts that it kept me thinking about it even when I wasn't playing it. It's not so complicated as to be *hard* per se - just the right level of difficulty. Just a straight up, wholesome good time! Ignoring the homicide and frameup job, of course.
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Bought as game design reference. Its unique pov of "getting away from accusations" is fascinating, and is a first step towards a better detective game narration. As the phantom that haunts detective games for ages - the "who will validate player's solution" phantom, is finally given a blow in this game. Instead of validation, use cause and effects, which is simply a more dynamic, engaging way of telling a detective story. And really, the narration backend, ink, made also by the devs, is clearly powerful to allow them to do all sort of crazy narration experiments.
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