Overboard! similar games & best alternatives

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Overboard!

Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac, Nintendo Switch • 2021

Should you play it?

GET AWAY WITH MURDER. Highly replayable detective game where you're the one whodunnit. From the creators of 80 Days and Heaven's Vault.

What works

  • Unique reverse murder mystery premise
  • High replayability with multiple endings
  • Engaging narrative and writing
  • Stylish 1930s art and music
  • Player freedom in strategy and choices

Things to keep in mind

  • Short overall playtime
  • Some repetition in dialogue
  • Limited character customization
  • Price considered high by some
  • Requires use of guides for full completion

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • BROK the InvestiGator - Prologue

  • Meteor 60 Seconds!

  • Yuppie Psycho: Executive Edition

  • WILL: A Wonderful World / WILL：美好世界

  • Raging Loop

  • Do Not Feed the Monkeys

Less dominating

Games that feels like Overboard! but with less domination over others

  • Repella Fella

  • Reigns: Game of Thrones

  • SHUTEN ORDER

  • Reigns: Her Majesty

  • Ace Attorney Investigations Collection

  • Demetrios - The BIG Cynical Adventure

Less survival-focused

Games that feels like Overboard! but with less survival pressure

  • The Rise of the Golden Idol

  • Detective Grimoire

  • Paradise Killer

  • Tangle Tower

  • Duck Detective: The Secret Salami

  • Elroy and the Aliens

Choose your own criteria ->

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Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
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  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Overboard!: Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Violence, Survival, Fellowship, Intimacy. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Domination. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Expression, Value.

Last update: 03/08/2026