Overboard!

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 543 reviews of which 492 were positive and 51 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.5 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 12.49€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Overboard! into these genres:

Adventure Interactive Fiction Detective Puzzle Choose Your Own Adventure Hand-drawn Conversation Dark Comedy Choices Matter Female Protagonist Comedy Historical Text-Based Visual Novel Comic Book Replay Value Mystery 2D Minimalist Drama

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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

Reviews

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Sept. 2024

i really enjoyed this!!! you push your cheating husband overboard and play through multiple stories/ endings. you can either get caught, pin it on someone else, blackmail someone into covering for you, pass it off as suicide or murder more people. learning about each character was interesting and seeing all the different dialogue options/ endings. one of the endings is a lil weird tho

Aug. 2024

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.

Aug. 2024

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.

June 2024

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.

Feb. 2024

Interesting twist on the old school who-done-it mystery, cause you-done-it but can you manage to be found innocent? Quick game with multiple replays to make different choices. I've been enjoying it. The design and music are perfect for this period 1930's story. The characters and dialogue are reminiscent of black-and-white films. A well-rounded game, and my only complaint is that it's too short. Still, it's not as easy as you would think to get yourself off the Hook and into a nice hotel on land.

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12.49€

8.5

492

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Developer

inkle Ltd

Publisher

inkle Ltd

Release 02 Jun 2021

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