Overboard!
Fair · Narrative · 2021
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $14.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 2.3h 4.8h to 100%
- Value
- $6.52/hr
- Reviews
- 90% of 678 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $7.18 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
GET AWAY WITH MURDER. Highly replayable detective game where you're the one whodunnit. From the creators of 80 Days and Heaven's Vault.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Version 9.0c, 205 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
38 discounts in the 5 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 15 percent on value. It is pricier than 79 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 90 percent. Adventure Escape Mysteries (free, scores 63) outscores it, and so does Heaven's Vault ($24.99, scores 58). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
More about Overboard!
81 from critics against 90 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Of the 354 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 3 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2021 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 76 percent of the 132 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 23 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 2.3 hours. Doing everything runs 5, 2.1 times as long.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 2.3 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
82% start to 8% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 2 when we last checked, on Oct 1, 18:53 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Just too short to find out much, too RNG to decide without finding out much. What's there is nice, it just doesn't work as either IF or detective.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
After a very interesting experience with TR-49, which came out earlier this year, I was intrigued to continue exploring Inkle's games, which had largely escaped my attention before. I ended up choosing Overboard! - a small, charming game where your goal is to help the protagonist avoid punishment for murdering her husband aboard a cruise ship... in the most advantageous way possible. The game's main "hook" is also...
The plot is nice and different from usual. The concept nice and interesting, and art is good. There are lot of paths and outcomes to try if you dont mind the repetitive choices to get there. The action is often quite straight-forward, fitting the quick play-style. No beating around the bush. I like that. In that sense, the writing is good. However, the setting is a bit limited with a only few rooms you can quickly...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Overboard! scores 56/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1546920/overboardReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.