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inkle Ltd · 2021 · 90 % positive of 576

24 games that play like Overboard! and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Best Served Cold, Dry Drowning and Antioch: Scarlet Bay.

Player tags

  • Adventure
  • Interactive Fiction
  • Detective
  • Puzzle
  • Choose Your Own Adventure
  • Hand-drawn
  • Conversation
  • Dark Comedy

At a glance

What games like Overboard! have in common

  • The tags they share most often with Overboard!: Detective (19 of 24), Interactive Fiction (16) and Puzzle (12).
  • They came out between 2015 and 2025, 12 of them after Overboard! (2021).
  • Best rated by Steam players: Tangle Tower (95 % positive of 5,243).
  • Best Served Cold, Over the Alps and Rainswept both play and look like Overboard!.

By gameplay

Plays like Overboard!

Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.

More matches

  1. Mindcop95 % positive of 308Shared: Interactive Fiction · Detective · Puzzle
  2. Over the Alps90 % positive of 232Shared: Interactive Fiction · Choose Your Own Adventure · Choices Matter
  3. On Your Tail92 % positive of 218Shared: Detective · Puzzle · Mystery
  4. As Dusk Falls90 % positive of 3,307Shared: Choose Your Own Adventure · Conversation · Choices Matter
  5. A Case of Distrust81 % positive of 579Shared: Interactive Fiction · Detective · Choose Your Own Adventure
  6. Heavy Rain84 % positive of 19,707Shared: Interactive Fiction · Detective · Choices Matter
  7. Murder Mystery Machine54 % positive of 159Shared: Detective · Puzzle · Female Protagonist
  8. Storyteller87 % positive of 7,411Shared: Interactive Fiction · Puzzle · Choose Your Own Adventure
  9. Agatha Christie - Murder on the Orient Express85 % positive of 825Shared: Detective · Puzzle · Choices Matter
  10. Rainswept87 % positive of 282Shared: Interactive Fiction · Detective · Visual Novel
  11. The Operator92 % positive of 6,196Shared: Interactive Fiction · Detective · Puzzle
  12. The Deed90 % positive of 3,043Shared: Detective · Choose Your Own Adventure · Choices Matter

By look

Looks like Overboard!

Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.

More matches

  1. Whateverland88 % positive of 159
  2. Choice of Life: Wild Islands95 % positive of 282
  3. Agent A: A puzzle in disguise95 % positive of 5,488
  4. Writer's Rush78 % positive of 358
  5. The Ship: Murder Party85 % positive of 5,950
  6. News Tower96 % positive of 2,178
  7. LA Cops51 % positive of 172
  8. Rainswept87 % positive of 282
  9. The Ratline81 % positive of 355
  10. Last Word82 % positive of 402
  11. looK INside - Chapter 189 % positive of 413
  12. Nelly Cootalot: The Fowl Fleet94 % positive of 291

How these matches work

Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.

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