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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. Data as of 2026-05-20.
“It's less about deduction and more about bluffing your way through with sheer nerve. A stylish little game of elegant deception and juggling alibis.”
— a player, Steam review · 10 hrs played“A cheeky but enjoyable time loop, mystery solving game. The writing itself is fairly mediocre, but it's fun the way the game has pieced together a puzzle out of figuring out which actions to take, where, and in which order. The game leaves a lot of room for improvement, being…”
— a player, Steam review · 3 hrs played“What a fun choice-based game from Inkle! Solid replay value with a lot of different characters to meet and a variety of endings. A rare game where I put the work into doing all the endings myself rather than watching playthroughs of them, because the game loop was snappy and…”
— a player, Steam review · 3 hrs playedAchievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-07-25.
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 2026-05-20.
| 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 |
| Estimated owners | 50,000 – 100,000 (SteamSpy) |
| 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