Overboard!
inkle Ltd · 2021 · Adventure, Interactive Fiction, Detective, Puzzle, Choose Your Own Adventure
PC
Very Positive91% · 56181Metacritic
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About Overboard!
✦ AI summary
You're a murderer on a luxury ocean liner with just eight hours to frame someone else before the ship docks, using manipulation, deception, and cunning to escape justice. This dynamic narrative thriller features a living, breathing world where every character remembers your actions and responds independently, making each playthrough radically different as you chase the perfect crime.
JULY, 1935. A MURDER HAS BEEN COMMITTED aboard the SS Hook, eight hours out from New York.
Only one problem: you did it.
Can you get away with murder?
GAMEPLAY
Overboard! is a tense, highly replayable detective game from the creators of 80 Days and Heaven's Vault.
Blackmail a spy. Fall in love. Murder a rival. Cheat at cards. Drug a witness. Lie, befriend, betray, console, sneak, seduce, steal, borrow, pray, eavesdrop, kill...
There are clues, evidence, suspects, accusations, secrets and lies.
You’ll need all your cunning, coercion and charisma to ensure that someone else takes the fall.
DYNAMIC NARRATIVE CLOCKWORK
* Next-gen visual novel: go where you want, when you want, and say what you want
* Simulated story-world: other characters move and act independently, remember everything they see and hear, and everything you do
* Every minute counts: you have eight hours to escape justice. Time is always ticking
* Who can you trust? Some characters are friendly, and some are out to get you. Who will you befriend? And who will you betray?
Built using the award-winning ink narrative engine, Overboard!'s narrative twists itself around every choice you make.
Play once for a thrill, or multiple times to uncover all the secrets and achieve an ideal ending.
One play-through lasts about 30 - 45 minutes, but achieving the perfect crime run will take a lot longer.
Can you get away with murder?
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
It's good.
https://youtu.be/YosDxtkEylA Reimagining the classic Choose-Your-Own-Adventure books into a visual novel provides players a lot of space to explore and multiple endings to experience.
I actually played some three hours of Overboard! in another account, it's such a lovely game. The reverse murder mystery is a fun concept, the dialogue is well-written and all the aesthetics are just great. It's a bit clunky that to try to get all the endings, you have to replay some conversations quite a lot of times, but at least the game has some nice fast-forwarding options.
A fun little puzzle-box of a narrative to unwrap. Great art style, strong writing. Enjoyable!
Had fun building on previous attempts to the best solution. I would have liked some more dialogue options
A very fun twist on the mystery theme with many different possibilities.
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