Games like Overboard!
If Overboard! is your kind of game, the closest matches are Expelled!, Sarawak and The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its dark, funny and tense. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About 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.
Players who liked Overboard! also play
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Expelled!
WHY THIS
Shares multiple endings, time management and a dark mood with Overboard!.
Top pick for Overboard! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Overboard!.
A School Prefect has been pushed out of a window, and everyone's blaming YOU. Can you find the culprit - or someone to take the fall - before you get EXPELLED? Mystery with a wicked twist, from the creators of Overboard!, 80 Days, Heaven's Vault and A Highland Song.
The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Overboard!.
Third-strongest match for Overboard! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Overboard!.
Delouse your room with sage and pack up your travel-sized ouija board, it’s time to re-enter Twin Lakes - America’s 34th most haunted city. Join Detective McQueen as he puzzles his way through 9 chilling cases, risking life and pixelated limb to solve the macabre mysteries that plague the poor town.
Her Story
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Overboard! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Overboard!.
A woman is interviewed seven times by the police. Search the video database and explore hundreds of authentic clips to discover her story in this groundbreaking and award winning narrative game.
Murder by Numbers
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Overboard! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Overboard!.
Solve Pixel Puzzles to find clues. Use those clues to interrogate witnesses. Work your way to the truth... ...and uncover the mystery of Murder by Numbers!
Over the Alps
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Overboard! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Overboard!.
Over The Alps is a choices-matter narrative adventure game told through interactive postcards, sent from a secret agent to their handler, in 1930s Switzerland.
IMMORTALITY
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Overboard! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Overboard!.
Marissa Marcel was a film star. She made three movies. But none of the movies were ever released. And Marissa Marcel disappeared. An interactive trilogy from Sam Barlow, creator of Her Story.
The Council
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Overboard!.
Ranked #8 for Overboard! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Overboard!.
Experience a Narrative Adventure where your choices and character growth truly matter. As a member of a 1793 secret society, live a tale of intrigue and manipulation on the hunt for your missing mother.
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The Intern
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Overboard! cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Overboard!.
The Intern - O Estágio is a platform/action with elements of rpg/jrpg and anime elements, a deep story places the player in the shoes of an aspiring creative lady who will travel through worlds, times and dimensions
The Last Express Gold Edition
WHY THIS
Shares multiple endings with Overboard!.
Reviewers of Overboard! cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Overboard!.
Step aboard the 1914 Orient Express in this award-winning mystery adventure from Prince of Persia creator Jordan Mechner. Described as one of the best adventure games of all time, The Last Express is an intrigue-filled adventure set aboard the luxurious Orient Express.
Expelled!
WHY THIS
Shares multiple endings, time management and a dark mood with Overboard!.
Reviewers of Overboard! cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Overboard!.
A School Prefect has been pushed out of a window, and everyone's blaming YOU. Can you find the culprit - or someone to take the fall - before you get EXPELLED? Mystery with a wicked twist, from the creators of Overboard!, 80 Days, Heaven's Vault and A Highland Song.
INSIGHT
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Overboard! cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Overboard!.
Fight, rebuild, and hold the line against creatures born from three corporations' broken promises. Battle alone or bring groups of up to 5 people in this fast-paced co-op survival. Reclaim a mutated world, restore fallen landmarks, and discover what or who is still steering the outbreak.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Overboard! at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Overboard! on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Overboard!.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Overboard! on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Overboard!.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Overboard! on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Overboard!.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Overboard! on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Overboard!.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Overboard! on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Overboard!.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
How to Fish
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Overboard! on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Overboard!.
A 1-4 player physics based fishing simulator. While drinking and boating you suddenly crash into a small island. To work your way back home you have to learn How to Fish.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Overboard! on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Overboard!.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Overboard! on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Overboard!.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Overboard!.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Overboard!.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Overboard!.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Overboard!.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
A Date with Death
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Overboard!.
Fight against & romance the one hunting for your soul in A Date with Death, a romance chat simulator where you date(?) the Grim Reaper himself. Create your own character, decorate your apartment, and chat away with the charming yet dangerous Grim Reaper through text and video calls.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Overboard!.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Overboard!.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
![UNBEATABLE [white label] — Steam game cover](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1290490/header.jpg?t=1736770503)
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More from inkle Ltd
Other recommendable Steam games by inkle Ltd, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Heaven's Vault
WHY THIS
Another title from inkle Ltd, the studio behind Overboard!. Shares Indie and Adventure with Overboard!.
An archaeologist uncovers a lost history in an ancient space Nebula. Award-winning narrative adventure game with hieroglyphic language puzzles, from the creators of 80 DAYS.
80 Days
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Overboard!.
Another title from inkle Ltd, the studio behind Overboard!. Shares Indie and Adventure with Overboard!.
1872, with a steampunk twist. Phileas Fogg has wagered he can circumnavigate the world in just 80 days. Travel by airship, submarine, mechanical camel, steam-train and more. Race other players and a clock that never stops in TIME Magazine's Game of 2014.
TR-49
WHY THIS
Shares multiple endings and a tense mood with Overboard!.
Another title from inkle Ltd, the studio behind Overboard!. Shares Adventure with Overboard!.
A World War II computer. An archive of lost books. A world-changing secret. Narrative deduction meets audio drama, from the creators of Overboard!, Heaven's Vault and A Highland Song.
Sorcery! Parts 1 and 2
WHY THIS
Another title from inkle Ltd, the studio behind Overboard!. Shares Indie and Adventure with Overboard!.
An epic adventure in a land of monsters, traps and magic. Journey across the deadly Shamutanti Hills and through Kharé, Cityport of Thieves. Armed with your sword and over fifty spells with weird and wonderful effects, embark on a narrative adventure of a thousand choices where every one is remembered.
A Highland Song
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Overboard!.
Another title from inkle Ltd, the studio behind Overboard!. Shares Indie and Adventure with Overboard!.
Moira McKinnon is running away. A wild adventure through the Scottish Highlands, with open platforming and dynamic storytelling, maps and music. From the creators of Heaven's Vault and 80 Days.
Expelled!
WHY THIS
Shares multiple endings, time management and a dark mood with Overboard!.
Another title from inkle Ltd, the studio behind Overboard!. Shares Indie and Adventure with Overboard!.
A School Prefect has been pushed out of a window, and everyone's blaming YOU. Can you find the culprit - or someone to take the fall - before you get EXPELLED? Mystery with a wicked twist, from the creators of Overboard!, 80 Days, Heaven's Vault and A Highland Song.
Pendragon: Narrative Tactics
WHY THIS
Another title from inkle Ltd, the studio behind Overboard!. Shares Indie and Adventure with Overboard!.
AD 673. Camelot has fallen. The Round Table must rally to save King Arthur. Narrative strategy game from the creators of 80 DAYS, with elegant tactics and a unique, dynamic story every time you replay.
Sorcery! Part 3
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with Overboard!.
Another title from inkle Ltd, the studio behind Overboard!. Shares Indie and Adventure with Overboard!.
An epic open-world narrative adventure through a world of monsters, traps and magic. Explore two intermeshed worlds, past and present, and create your own unique story where every decision you make is remembered. Survive, and defeat the Seven Serpents - if you can!
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Expelled!
WHY THIS
Shares multiple endings, time management and a dark mood with Overboard!.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Overboard!.
A School Prefect has been pushed out of a window, and everyone's blaming YOU. Can you find the culprit - or someone to take the fall - before you get EXPELLED? Mystery with a wicked twist, from the creators of Overboard!, 80 Days, Heaven's Vault and A Highland Song.
The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Overboard!.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Overboard!.
Delouse your room with sage and pack up your travel-sized ouija board, it’s time to re-enter Twin Lakes - America’s 34th most haunted city. Join Detective McQueen as he puzzles his way through 9 chilling cases, risking life and pixelated limb to solve the macabre mysteries that plague the poor town.
Murder by Numbers
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Overboard!.
Solve Pixel Puzzles to find clues. Use those clues to interrogate witnesses. Work your way to the truth... ...and uncover the mystery of Murder by Numbers!
IMMORTALITY
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Overboard!.
Marissa Marcel was a film star. She made three movies. But none of the movies were ever released. And Marissa Marcel disappeared. An interactive trilogy from Sam Barlow, creator of Her Story.
Frequently asked about Overboard!
- Is Overboard! verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Overboard! is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Overboard! cost?
- Overboard! is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Overboard!?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Overboard! are Expelled!, Sarawak, The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark.
- Who developed Overboard!?
- Overboard! was developed by inkle Ltd.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Overboard!.
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