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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 Eneba.
The Steam community has classified Overboard! into these genres:
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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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.
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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.
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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.)
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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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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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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.
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02 Jun 2021
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