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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.

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.

... in about 10-15 minutes of playing my phone got very hot, my battery dropped about 20%, and I had to stop. But I was really enjoying it until then, and hope they get the heating problem sorted out in an update. I played on an iPhone 11 Pro Max.

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.

I really love this game it has some unusual so if you’re particular about your games keep that in mind. Great animation style and sound effects. There are lot of things you can do in the game that you won’t realize even after playing the game for a lot of time. It is $6 which is a lot for a game, but remember it’s made by a small indie studio. I think there should be around two new maps/stories added to the game to keep it interesting because it gets a bit repetitive.

This is what I believe peak mobile gaming looks like. Unique concept, great art and art style, just fantastic. I really want to see more from these developers and story based games like this as I haven’t seen anything like it. Most story games on the App Store are cash grab garbage. This is truly one of the best most unique games on the App Store. Of course not without its flaws, but for a mobile game of this ambition, it deserves 5 stars

All the visuals in this game are very stylish and engaging- they're what drew me in initially and I was even more impressed once I actually played through the game. I went in expecting a relatively short game, but the time-loop style structure offered an incredible sense of replay-ability even after I'd completed the main goals. Overall, very fun and worth a go!

I got all the endings, and I’m wondering, will they’ll be another ending, I have a great idea, after killing Clarissa, the ghost of Malcolm comes and tries to gives us a scare, Veronica wakes up only to reveal it’s been a dream, we then can take two choices by telling Malcolm that they had a dream or ordering champagne for Malcolm, leading into a route to poisoning Malcolm, that’s my idea

An excellent example of run-based interactive fiction that works well (if a little hot) on mobile. The story can be run through once in ten or twenty minutes, but the next time will be entirely different. The tight, interconnected cast of characters populating the ship go about their days, offering trade offs of where to go when, and with whom. There are several ways to get your character, Veronica, off of the SS Hook. But how you go about it can determine not only her freedom, but her fortune in matters of the heart and the purse. The backdrop of interwar intrigue and upper class eccentricities provides an entertaining read the first time, and the Nth.

This game is very well designed. Excellent graphics, music, gameplay, and characters. Beating the game will take probably less than an hour (like it did for me), but there are many side stories and achievements to be discovered, making this game extremely replayable!

Another great game from Inkle, this time clearly inspired by “The Last Express”, an interactive fiction classic. Overboard! is smart, fast, and intricate in great ways. Each playthrough goes quickly and reveals more and more, drawing you right back in. Everyone should play, and interact fiction nerds should study it.

This game is great! The music, the voice acting, the dialogue, the old glamor vibes! They really captured the atmosphere well in this little game. I think the game design is really unique too, and is something that I’ve never seen any other game do. Keep it up, Inkle!

I can’t figure out how/where to view achievements. Do they not get counted on the iOS version??? That seems like a real shame if true.

I truly love this game. It’s beautifully designed, SO clever, and devilishly hilarious! It took me more times than I can count, in order to “win” but I’ll be playing again to try other combinations. LOVE IT! More like this, please!

I wish they’d make a sequel or a spin off it’s so addicting, entertaining, well crafted, beautifully designed, ahhh I can’t rave about it enough! Give us more inkle this is the best phone game I’ve played in years!

I REALLY adore this game, but I’ve tried it about 10 times now and cannot kill everyone? Is there a walkthrough on how to do this? Idk! But, all-in-all this is an amazing game.

Love the game just seems to be super short and replayability is a bit low as well

The battery issue has been taken care of.

This game was fun. Took me 6 attempts to “win.” I liked the variety of choices you can make as your character.

This is the best game and I finally finished the game. The game is drawn really well. Definitely be playing again every day!

Pretty good! I wish there was less dialogue, but that's just my personal taste.

Would love to see more of these.

This is a jolly fun game I say. The trick is to keep playing and try every option. You will be amazed at all the fun twists and turns that unfold!

Please add Chinese language

More focused than 80 days. Great game.

Great game but a short one

Pretty interesting game so far, but the one thing it sorely misses are saved games. Multiple people in my family want to play, but we can’t without having to ‘fully clear’ the game’s status to reset clues and tasks. A simple solution would be to add the capability to save games and switch between saved games. Thanks!

It took me a dozen tries just to get the insurance money, and I still have a blackmailer! Very cute game!

I love point and click adventure games like this and this game did not disappoint. Great graphics and many different endings and achievements. Definitely recommend!

Love this game so good for the airplane! I still haven’t beaten this game and I’ve found new things like a year after downloading I love it

If you are coming to this app from 80 Days, lower your expectations. Lower. Lower. Keep going… Despite the high price point of $5.99, this game only lasts about 15 minutes on the first playthrough. There isn’t much variation, either. After two or three plays you’ll be experiencing more old than new material. The total word count must be roughly equivalent to a chapter of a YA novel. There’s no reason, from a user-based perspective, to fill a game with so much repetition. The advantage is entirely the designer’s. Imagine that you have to create five unique paragraphs, but that the sentences within those paragraphs don’t have to be unique. If you were lazy, you’d save yourself a lot of effort by repurposing the same sentences in different arrangements. That’s essentially what Inkle has done here. Instead of putting forth the effort to create a rich game even a fraction as good as 80 Days, they’re counting on players getting focused on slight variations to create different outcomes—even though that means that after a few short plays, most of what the players are experiencing is tired and repetitive. For some players, this is obviously working. For me, it’s a cheap trick. I thought for a moment that the story was going to continue with her life beyond the boat with new scenes—but no, it’s just that same dumb boat with the same handful of characters and rooms. If you’re going to provide so little material, fine, but drop the price several dollars.

I had really high hopes for this game, but honestly it wasn’t worth the money. I got through the game in about 20-25 minutes, and I was taking my time. It’s a very interesting premise for a game, which is why I downloaded it, but I wasn’t impressed at all. I think the creators were going for an illustrative, storybook effect, but it really was just a disappointingly flat and two-dimensional UI. There is no interaction in this game at all (seriously). When you’re “searching” for evidence, you can’t actually see the rooms you’re supposed to be looking through or the evidence itself. The entire game is set up like this: a flat, unmoving illustration of your character is on the screen and you must choose from 3 simple options for the given dialogue or action in that particular scene. The dialogue appears on screen like chat bubbles from an old comic, and you never hear any of the voices or narration of the characters at all. You also can’t see anything inside the ship at all. You can replay the game different ways to find different outcomes. However, even in doing so, there’s a lot of redundancy and overlap in the plot lines and it becomes boring because you know what the characters are going to say next. I want to reiterate that I really did want to like this game. I understand that it’s hard to build a fully realized game world within an iPhone app, but this game really fell short. I didn’t find myself invested in the plot, the characters, anything. Wouldn’t recommend!

Hello! I just downloaded the game and I was excited to play but I don’t hear anything? My sound is all the way up on my phone and it works on other apps but not Overboard! I have the volume in game all the way up as well but still cannot hear things? I haven’t played it passed the beginning monologue because J want to get the story in full storytelling gameplay. I bet it’s good and I’m excited to play but I just want some sound help before I begin? Can anyone help me with tips or anything? Thank you!

The premise is unique and could be really cool. The dialogue is good although I often felt obvious responses weren’t available. For the price of the game I expected it to be fully voice acted and to have interactive backgrounds, but essentially it is a text adventure with character artwork. If I had known that beforehand I would not have bought the game at this price. I would say wait for a sale if you want to check it out. The storylines are entertaining and I can see how the game would have decent replay value.

Pluses: -Art is good. -Obviously effort was put into the storyline. Issues: -Overpriced for what you get. -There’s no way to mute the sound only some of the background music. -Every time you reset the game back to 8am (and you will often) you have to watch the opening & credits all over again… & again… & again… & again… -While im sure its probably possible to win its quite trying to have to repeat things over & over trying to figure out the exact magic sequence that will let you win because theres apparently only one. -Logic doesnt seem to play any part in this. Im debating if itd be worth the effort to try to create my own flow sheet to track the responses. A big part of me doesnt think this game is worth the effort tho. So. 1 star for art & 1 star for effort. Minus 3 for so many annoying issues.

Starts out strong, but it eventually reaches a point where the fun exploration phase is over and I’m trying to optimize my day, which involves lots of repetition. If I want to change one small thing and keep the rest the same, I have to redo the entire day much the same as before. Would be much less tedious with an undo button.

Let me explain: anyone who self-raised on hart to hart and later on realized natalie wood jokes were a thing and so was a great deal of money dependent on people knowing someone got away with murder — will watch the 1978 TV movie with Angie Dickinson eventually, and then buy this game the next morning. The choices they allow you are all suspicion-inviting. So it’s not a game just a kind of clickbait.

The story, art and action were all excellent, but the options as to how to respond were too limited. Ultimately, a contrived reason was given for the murderer's guilt. This was very disappointing. It isn't worth playing twice and the purchase price was far too much.

I don’t do many games but Overboard sounded like fun. However, despite the very long introduction showcasing all the voice actors and sound effect artists , I couldn’t hear anything. IS there sound? No way to get help. The app support link just goes to the website store. Annoying to see all the production staff but no help.

I got hundreds of hours of fun out of 80 days and expected the same here. I was severely disappointed. With only three endings and 10 minutes per loop, this game can be beaten in only 30 minutes. I want my money back.

Even when taking a new path a lot of the game seemed pretty repetitive. Each round also seems to go really quickly to me. Cool concept, but just not my favorite for how much it costs.

I guess I don’t like a role playing game, this was just incredibly boring for me. Bought it an hour ago and pushed myself to get to the end. It’s just choosing dialogue…obviously a lot of people enjoyed it, but a bit waste for me, I’d never play it again. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I played around the world in 80 days. This game doesn’t even come close. The options are repetitive and boring. The graphics are terrible. I paid 5.99 for this garbage.

The font is so tiny - if there was a setting to increase the size I could try it?

Game took like 5 minutes to finish and I beat it on the first try, I don’t find if replayable either

Confused by the 30-45 minute advertising…this game is like 10 mins for one run, maybe 15 max. 😭

This game keeps crashing about a couple minutes into the game. Disgraceful.

I loved 80 Days but this game was predictable, pretty boring and repetitive. Feels like it could have been more interesting and engaging, but falls short...