Overboard!

Name: Overboard!
Price: 5.99 USD
Rating: 4.5 (203 reviews)
Author: inkle

Can you get away with murder?

$5.99 · Designed for iPad

203 Ratings
Awards

Editors’ Choice

Apps
Ages

13+
Years
Category

Adventure
Developer

inkle
Language

EN
English
Size

172.9
MB

Also Included In

Overboard! Mysteries

Adventure

WINNER of a Apple Design Award and a Writer's Guild Award! 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 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? 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. HIGHLY REPLAYABLE 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?

Ratings & Reviews

4.5

out of 5

203 Ratings

Editors’ Choice

You’ve got eight wickedly tense hours to get away with murder in this sublime whodunit. It’s a brainteasing delight bribing, framing, and wooing your fellow cruise-ship passengers. Should you chat up nosy Lady Honoria Armstrong or play cards with Carstairs in the smoking room? Every failed getaway encourages another try—one where you explore different areas at different times and engage in new conversations. Brilliantly written and immaculately detailed, Overboard! makes dabbling in deception great fun—and that’s the truth.

Editors’ Choice

You’ve got eight wickedly tense hours to get away with murder in this sublime whodunit. It’s a brainteasing delight bribing, framing, and wooing your fellow cruise-ship passengers. Should you chat up nosy Lady Honoria Armstrong or play cards with Carstairs in the smoking room? Every failed getaway encourages another try—one where you explore different areas at different times and engage in new conversations. Brilliantly written and immaculately detailed, Overboard! makes dabbling in deception great fun—and that’s the truth.
Great game!
06/20/2021

Mr dr prof patrick
This interactive story game is fun to play and replay through as even when you succeed you may still find that there is more to the story, leaving room to go back and check for other paths and try to fix your current choices or even try to find another route. My only complaint is that some of the choices are not very clear as to the dialogue that will be given to them, for example, when it give the option to rest in your room, it would be nice to know that this means that you will sleep through the final meeting and essentially forfeit the round rather than nap until the meeting as I was attempting to do to pass the remaining 30 min or so till the final meeting. VERY daunting to have to restart and repeat all the same choices just to see if what I had would have worked >:/ ... Otherwise a great game and worth the cost.
Great game!
06/20/2021

Mr dr prof patrick

This interactive story game is fun to play and replay through as even when you succeed you may still find that there is more to the story, leaving room to go back and check for other paths and try to fix your current choices or even try to find another route. My only complaint is that some of the choices are not very clear as to the dialogue that will be given to them, for example, when it give the option to rest in your room, it would be nice to know that this means that you will sleep through the final meeting and essentially forfeit the round rather than nap until the meeting as I was attempting to do to pass the remaining 30 min or so till the final meeting. VERY daunting to have to restart and repeat all the same choices just to see if what I had would have worked >:/ ... Otherwise a great game and worth the cost.
Another Inkle Hit
06/09/2021

Jeratain
UPDATE: Bumped up to 5 stars thanks to the recent update to optimize battery utilization. This is - like all Inkle games - an extremely well-written game with a simple premise: get away with murder on a ship. For those unfamiliar with Inkle games, this is like a choose your own adventure with great depth. The dialogue feels natural; the graphics are clean and snappy; the sound is minimal and appropriate. Most importantly, the replayability and variety of choices is vast. The challenge is quite high, as you’re dealing with a large variety of dialogue options coupled with a time crunch to meet your goals. As you take an action, time passes. Each character is on a different part of the ship at a different time of day, so you need to be strategic about what you want to say / do / when you want to go to each section. Also with each replay, you learn something new and unlock new objectives. This adds to the challenge. For me, this is another slam dunk from Inkle that I’ll be sinking hours into.
Another Inkle Hit
06/09/2021

Jeratain

UPDATE: Bumped up to 5 stars thanks to the recent update to optimize battery utilization. This is - like all Inkle games - an extremely well-written game with a simple premise: get away with murder on a ship. For those unfamiliar with Inkle games, this is like a choose your own adventure with great depth. The dialogue feels natural; the graphics are clean and snappy; the sound is minimal and appropriate. Most importantly, the replayability and variety of choices is vast. The challenge is quite high, as you’re dealing with a large variety of dialogue options coupled with a time crunch to meet your goals. As you take an action, time passes. Each character is on a different part of the ship at a different time of day, so you need to be strategic about what you want to say / do / when you want to go to each section. Also with each replay, you learn something new and unlock new objectives. This adds to the challenge. For me, this is another slam dunk from Inkle that I’ll be sinking hours into.
Excellent Reverse Murder Mystery
06/21/2021

Colt375
With the amount of games about it out there, solving a murder is easy. Getting away with it is hard. This game confirms that. The forethought the writers did is excellent, I frequently found myself getting caught by assuming the fellow passengers would be stupider than they actually are. However, that made the eventual victory all the more for filling. The only problem I have with this game is the amount of my battery that it chugs through. In the worst case, this means you can’t play the game for more than an hour at a time; but conveniently enough, the game’s repeatable format works very well in short segments.
Excellent Reverse Murder Mystery
06/21/2021

Colt375

With the amount of games about it out there, solving a murder is easy. Getting away with it is hard. This game confirms that. The forethought the writers did is excellent, I frequently found myself getting caught by assuming the fellow passengers would be stupider than they actually are. However, that made the eventual victory all the more for filling. The only problem I have with this game is the amount of my battery that it chugs through. In the worst case, this means you can’t play the game for more than an hour at a time; but conveniently enough, the game’s repeatable format works very well in short segments.