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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 576 reviews of which 523 were positive and 53 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.5 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 12.49€ on Steam, but you can find it for less on K4G.

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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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

User reviews & Ratings

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Dec. 2025

This game was engaging, fun, and a wonderful way to spend a weekend! I highly recommend for anyone who enjoys a cheeky game with laughs and surprises!

July 2025

This game is so much fun and highly addictive. Especially going for that sweet 100% of all the achievements. All the different dialogue to enjoy and secrets to find out, all while figuring out how to get away with murder, money and more! You replay the day over each time to get different endings and a lot of the time I was just having fun goofing off trying out different dialogue and shenanigans.

July 2025

Overboard! mostly lives up to one of Ingold's previous games, Make It Good. Overboard! is the fourth detective related game he's worked on. The first one, Insight, was made around one central twist and did it well, a good early step for the author and a good introduction to this kind of game, at least for me. The second one, Make It Good, is The detective game: a complex enough simulation of a group of witnesses/suspects and the crime scene, with a tight deadline to get everything you need. Then, The Intercept, the Inkle demo game (no longer available, it seems; not even the only lost Ingold game) about trying to hide that you were blackmailed into giving sexrets about your code breaking operation. Overboard! takes ideas from all of these and more. The things it takes from Make it Good, it improves on. Those things it doesn't, don't really work. The game is about other characters, who move around on the ship according to their schedules, remembering what's going on around them. You observe them at first, and on later attempts try to get them to do what you want. It's a pretty big cast, with enough ways interact with them, by meeting them at different places and times. There are few non-failure endings, but plenty of different ways to get to them. The first big problem is the interface. Within a scene, you always get 3 options when you have to make a choice. Often one is redundant. In complex scenes, the option you want can be excluded because the game choice to show the more interesting options over the one you want. The game also likes to show notifications about things that just happened, covering up the clock. The second big problem is that the game doesn't actually simulate people coming and going correctly. The game is inconsistent about others arriving into a scene. It's useful to move from a room to itself as a waiting move that doesn't trap you in a long action. Overboard! clearly wants to be a bigger better Make it Good. It some ways it is, but the Inkle engine and game logic are clearly struggling to hold up the simulation Overboard! tries to be.

June 2025

This is well-written, but you go in completely blind and have to muddle through several tries until you start piecing together where to go and what to say and do. I really appreciate how you have many different options that result in different endings. Treat it like Groundhog Day: resetting is necessary/unavoidable, and once you know your way around, you'll have a great time. (I would love a 'deluxe edition' where they record performers reading all the dialog in character.)

Feb. 2025

Really fun looping game - it's an interesting very well thought out loop that feels super satisfying to slowly make it through. It had a lot of personality and I'm honestly even more excited they're making a sequel, because this feels like a very sharp proof of concept I'd love to see expanded. $15 is a biiiiit expensive for an ending you can hit in like 2 hours, and even the extra content only gets you to 4-5 hours, so good for a sale pickup for sure

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Frequently Asked Questions

Overboard! is currently priced at 12.49€ on Steam.

Overboard! is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 12.49€ on Steam.

Overboard! received 523 positive votes out of a total of 576 achieving a rating of 8.48.

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Overboard! was developed and published by inkle Ltd.

Overboard! is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Overboard! is playable and fully supported on MacOS.

Overboard! is not playable on Linux.

Overboard! is a single-player game.

Overboard! does not currently offer any DLC.

Overboard! does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

Overboard! does not support Steam Remote Play.

Overboard! is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

You can find solutions or submit a support ticket by visiting the Steam Support page for Overboard!.

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Steam price	29 January 2026 04:34
Steam reviews	26 January 2026 22:08

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