Single-player games like Overboard!
Below are 16 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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Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure
Single-player alternative to Overboard! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Overboard!.
A murder. A hack. A bombing. All it takes to plunge the solar system into war – unless you do something about it. Help CDI agent Neil Conrad make a string of increasingly difficult decisions in this modern dialog-driven adventure set in a gorgeous 2D sci-fi noir universe.
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Murder by Numbers
Single-player alternative to Overboard! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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!
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The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles
Single-player alternative to Overboard! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Overboard!.
Immerse yourself in a dramatic yet charming and witty world of evidence-gathering, deduction and courtroom battles with this double-pack of the adventures of rookie lawyer Ryunosuke.
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The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark
Single-player alternative to Overboard! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair
Single-player alternative to Overboard! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Overboard!.
Jabberwock Island—You and your classmates were ready for fun in the sun until Monokuma returned to restart his murderous game! Trapped in a kill-or-be-killed situation, your only hope rests in solving the island’s mysteries.
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Pentiment
Single-player alternative to Overboard! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Overboard!.
Step into a living illustrated world in a time when Europe is at a crossroads of great religious and political change. Walk in the footsteps of Andreas Maler, a master artist who finds himself in the middle of murders, scandals, and intrigue in the Bavarian Alps.
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Return of the Obra Dinn
Single-player alternative to Overboard! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Overboard!.
Lost at sea 1803 ~ The good ship Obra Dinn.
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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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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!