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• gamedeal user

  Jun 3, 2021

  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 up enough evidence to put your guilt into doubt. If you're more devious you could try to frame one of your fellow passengers. You could even go the And Then There Were None route and murder everyone else on board just to be thorough, if you can pull it off. Overboard! was clearly designed for replayability. The ship is full of evidence and red herrings to tamper with, desperate schemes to attempt, and secrets to learn. The first playthrough reveals only a small slice of all this, leaving a collection of unsolved mysteries and unfollowed leads to pursue on the second. The second playthrough prepares you for the third, and so on, until finally you beat the game... but there's much more to it than that. Vague, but I don't want to spoil anything. This game was released today without any kind of announcement beforehand from inkle. As usual, their writing and design are superb. If you're captivated by the premise, even by a little, you won't regret the purchase.
• gamedeal user

  Jul 11, 2021

  TLDR: I want to love it, I really do. But it's falls more into repetitive hard work rather than intelligent deduction. Argh it pains me to thumbs down. I normally guilt myself into thumbs up for games like this as I like the style, or the attempt, or the idea. I am an avid fan of story-based games/walking simulators so am very forgiving. It’s hard to compare it to anything, but I guess it has similarities to Return of the Obra Dinn and Detroit. In a sense that you’re trying to work out sequences of events and you will repeat and dig through facts to try and work things out. What makes Overboard! more difficult to like is that you have to repeat the whole day choosing options to unravel the ‘solution’. Common logic says you change one thing and see the result. But the trouble is if you are only making a minor shift, it’s a LOT of clicking to go through the day to see the result. So do you change more things? But then you get to the end and it’s often not possible to know what lever you pulled that changed something. For a player point of view, the results often feel random. I know they are not random, quite the opposite… but without being able to lock down the logic it *feels* random. What’s also frustrating is I’m sure something has changed in the outcome yet I felt I did nothing to do that. Why for example doing an action results in an outcome at the end one turn, then you do that thing again and it doesn’t... you think what did I do? You also have to put up with what feel like logic jumps for the characters. With very flimsy evidence, they will make very grand accusations. In fact sometimes they accuse based upon absence of evidence. There is a certain joy when you unlock an area, or make a deduction, but the joy is shortlived when it’s again like a feeling you’ve pulled one lever successfully but you have to still pull another ten – in the dark. I feel it’s missing a feature. It needs some sort of decision map like Detroit, so you can have some understanding of your impact. Theme wise, as someone who loves the vibe of this era, I was a bit underwhelmed. The images are very much focused on faces so you get little sense of the rooms the characters are in. The music could have been a love letter to that era, jazzy and decadent… but it's largely forgettable. It pains me to give it a thumbs down, as I like their idea here. But I have to honestly say “Would I recommend it to a friend?” I’d say no. I’d say get Return of the Obra Dinn or The Invisible Hours.
• gamedeal user

  Dec 3, 2021

  [h1]Not a [i]great[/i] branching-dialogue game, but a very good one[/h1] 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, [i]Overboard![/i] has you covered. If you want a rich story full of layered characters that you can spend ten hours on or more - without a guide - it's got you covered there, too. But here's where I must caution you - if you want a complexly-branching narrative with several different endings, hyper-specific context-sensitive dialogue, and a game that will constantly surprise you with how the developers anticipated every outcome... You need to dial back your expectations. [i]Overboard![/i] is a small-scale indie title that is $15 at [i]full price[/i]. It has not been polished to a mirror shine, and it has a relatively limited scope. What's there is very good - the characters are charming and memorable, and the story is well-told. Although the game usually railroads you into only a few types of major ending states, they are generally very effective and the small flourishes are endearing. In the end, I suppose saying "it left me wanting more than it had" is a compliment, of sorts. That said - I still recommend it.
• gamedeal user

  Jun 4, 2021

  Someone has to be the first, I guess. I don't know, I just didn't really feel too hooked on the game's premise. I feel less like I'm solving a puzzle and more like I'm hitting a pinata for all the clues. Every replay, I'm just going to have to do something whacky in order to get a new clue as to what might further my cause. And that doesn't really make me feel like I'm a part of a story, as much as a I feel like I'm going through an eternally looping monday, getting increasingly distanced to the world around me as I finally end up throwing myself overboard, because 'why not?'. I won't refund it, because I think the devs have poured a lot of heart into this game and I do think they deserve the money, but I couldn't really find too much entertainment in the game.
• gamedeal user

  Aug 9, 2021

  I wish I liked this one more than I do because the concept is great and so is the presentation along with a really interestingly reactive narrative but it's more a game of repetitive trial and error more than any sort of induction and past the first couple of hours I started to find it frustrating due to what I think are sort of idiotic relationships between actions and results. I kind of gave up on it when I achieved a double murder and attempted to pin on it someone else with no logical flaws in the arrangment, only for a character to verbatim say "No, that would be too perfect, therefore it had to have been you." which is absolutely dumb as hell, but it sticks because game says so. Cool. Better luck next time.
• gamedeal user

  Jul 22, 2021

  Hello Steam user who is wondering if this visual novel is worth their time. I'm going to tell you right now that the short answer is an absolutely if you love interactive mystery. Actually this game isn't a visual novel (at least not in the traditional sense) but you are giving dialogue choices and decisions that change the outcome of the story. Anyway now on to the pros and cons list. Pros – the story. I really like the story of this game I could easily as a novel or a movie. The basic premise is Veronica Villensey, a London aristocrat murders her awful husband in cold blood by pushing him overboard on a trip to New York. Now she wakes up the next morning and realized that she had eight hours to not get caught. Basically the premise is a reverse of whodunit because in this case you want to get away with it. Of course there's more to it than just an unhappy wife killing her miserable husband but more would spoil and this really is a game where you want to walk in fresh. – Veronica Villensey and the other characters on the SS Hook. Each of them have their own story and are more than they appear to be. Honestly some of them are so terrible they actually make Veronica look saintly but interesting in their own way. – The art. Perfectly styled and really fit with the atmosphere of the 1930s. It really gives the game its own unique identity. I played visual novels with great art but with the professional glam and the style they all feel the same instead of being its own unique identity. – The mechanics. The very good about letting you know if you're screwing up or not I there are bubbles at the top with red text that tells you what people know, what people think and what you just did to help you keep straight your story. Cons – time management. Oh boy if you are not very good with time management then you are going to utterly hate this game. The timing of things is incredibly crucial and if even just a few minutes late you could completely destroy one of your runs especially when you're working on the speedruns or trying to get the true ending. Characters constantly move on the ship so whoever you want to talk to may not be in the same place they were ten minutes earlier and if you're trying to break into real that can be very bad because you may not have enough time to actually accomplish that. – Going to need a guide. Now I recommend for after you've played a few times but there are something that just aren't super intuitive so you'll probably need to find a guide so you can get all the ending achievements especially during the speedruns. No neutral this time I honestly would like to say more about how great this game is but I really think that with no knowledge at all is the best way to play considering the mystery aspect. It's also pretty reasonable price and even though the game seems short you'll have to play it multiple times to see every bit of the story so I think it's well worth the almost 15 dollars you pay for it. So have fun and get away with murder~
• gamedeal user

  Mar 24, 2022

  It's like Groundhog Day meets a Poirot episode, but from the perspective of the murderer.
• gamedeal user

  Jun 13, 2022

  Fun little graphic novel-type game and a fun twist on the detective games I usually play since you're trying to get away with a crime instead of solve one. There are many different achievements you can unlock which are fun and don't necessarily even mean going trough the entire game again - once you get that achievement you can reset to the start of the day (and you can also get multiple achievements in one run). I recommend trying to get away with the murder once, then after that, look up what the achievements are and try to get them. Only downside is the game can get tedious when you're constantly repeating conversations and restarting over and over again. (You can reset to the start of a scene once each scene though if you don't like the choices you made, which helps). I stepped away from the game from a while before coming back to it to get the rest of the achievements, and that definitely helped it feel fun again. Overall, fun and kind of unique concept. Would play another game like this if they made one in a different setting.
• gamedeal user

  Mar 17, 2023

  literally gatekeep gaslight girlboss: the game
• gamedeal user

  Apr 19, 2022

  A fun reversal of deduction games. You have to cover your tracks and make it impossible to solve the case. Lots of fun writing in this one.