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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.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-29 · quoted reviews as of 2026-10-16.
“The premise is that you're a passenger on a ship, waking up on the morning after you've murdered your well-to-do husband. From that point, you're free to go anywhere on board to do whatever you can to avoid justice within the time limit. You could just try to play dumb and cover…”
— a player, Steam review · 9 hrs played“Haven't played it for too long, but after 6 playthroughs, I want to say this game is pretty interesting. Inkle has been experimenting a lot with the loop format. In 80 Days the game encouraged you to play multiple times through a long-ish narrative that honestly, made more sense…”
— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs played“Not a great branching-dialogue game, but a very good one If you're looking for a quick, bite-sized game that you can tear through in less than an hour with the help of a guide, Overboard! has you covered. If you want a rich story full of layered characters that you can spend ten…”
— a player, Steam review · 17 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players, self-collected from the Steam API since Aug 2026.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-10-21.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
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Expelled Demo now available!
If you've been considering checking out the new Overboard! game - EXPELLED! - you can now try it for free with the demo ! Verity Amersham is about to have the worst day of her life. She's innocent --
Oh no! DEMOnic Malcolm's been EXPELLED from the boat!
It's 1935 and Veronica Villensey is about to be separated from her husband - by a large body of water. It's not the FIRST time she's had to be pushy to get what she wants, of course. It's not the firs
New Overboard! game incoming!
Prepare yourself for more blackmail, mayhem and manipulation with the next game in the Overboard! franchise, out on March 12th. It's 1922, and Verity Amersham is about to be expelled! from Miss Mullig
Miss Mulligatawney's School for Promising Girls
When we wrote Overboard! in 2021, we wanted to make a Christie-style detective game that was characterful, funny, puzzley, and quick to get into. No menus, points or systems - just the drama and the d
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-13.
| Genres | Adventure, Indie |
| Player tags | Adventure · Interactive Fiction · Detective · Puzzle · Choose Your Own Adventure · Hand-drawn · Conversation · Dark Comedy · Choices Matter · Female Protagonist · Comedy · Historical (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * , Spanish - Spain * |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 26 |
| Official site | http://www.inklestudios.com/overboard |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: 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