Single-player games like Overboard!
Below are 18 single-player Steam games similar to Overboard!, ranked by player overlap. Every pick carries Steam's Single-player category, so multiplayer-only titles or always-online games don't sneak in. imho.run pulls the category data from Steam directly — Single-player here matches what the store labels.
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Ranked picks
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Expelled!
Single-player alternative to Overboard! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Blake: The Visual Novel
Single-player alternative to Overboard! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Overboard!.
Graphic Novel meets Visual Novel in this story-rich, choice-driven thriller. Experience Blake’s journey as he encounters a clandestine nemesis, sparking a series of events that force him to choose between losing his sanity or rising to the challenge. Make the right decisions and save New Stone.
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Holy Shift
Single-player alternative to Overboard! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Overboard!.
This game is a psychological test in which you will face dilemmas that reveal your personality. At the end of it, you will know your psychotype.
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Do 11
Single-player alternative to Overboard! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Overboard!.
Find a way out of the Do 11 app by doing missions that come from the mysterious Do 11 app. A choice awaits you to solve puzzles and change the fate of the protagonist. Escape the main character from the Do 11 app while savoring a profound worldview and intriguing story. An incredible twist awaits.
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Go For A Punch! Saki Sanobashi
Single-player alternative to Overboard! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Overboard!.
Four students find themselves trapped in the restroom of an abandoned school; the door is locked. Without a way of escaping, they can only cling to their remaining shreds of hope or come face to face with their inevitable ruin.
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Sarawak
Single-player alternative to Overboard! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Overboard!.
A short literary mystery game set in Oxford and Borneo
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Astrologaster
Single-player alternative to Overboard! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Overboard!.
Astrologaster is a comedy game set in Shakespeare’s London. Play as 'Doctor' Simon Forman and treat his patients using astrology. A story-driven adventure based on a truly ridiculous story.
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Death Trick: Double Blind
Single-player alternative to Overboard! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Overboard!.
The star magician of Morgan’s Traveling Circus is missing, but the show must go on! In this non-linear detective visual novel, unravel the mystery from two different perspectives as you learn the varying stories of an entire circus of performers, each with their own lives... and their own secrets.
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The Intern
Single-player alternative to Overboard! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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
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The Last Express Gold Edition
Single-player alternative to Overboard! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Insight
Single-player alternative to Overboard! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Overboard!.
Guess the rules, divide shapes, solve puzzles. 49 variants with consistent rulessets.
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Heaven's Vault
Single-player alternative to Overboard! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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80 Days
Single-player alternative to Overboard! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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TR-49
Single-player alternative to Overboard! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Sorcery! Parts 1 and 2
Single-player alternative to Overboard! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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A Highland Song
Single-player alternative to Overboard! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Pendragon: Narrative Tactics
Single-player alternative to Overboard! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Sorcery! Part 3
Single-player alternative to Overboard! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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!