Let’s say you killed your husband on a cruise from the UK to New York. How would you get away with it and leave a free woman behind when the boat arrives in port? This wonderfully suspenseful premise is just the beginning of 2021’s Overboard! It is a crime game in which you have the unique chance to take on the role of the murderer and try to throw an eccentric detective off your trail. Overboard!—and six other exciting mystery games—are available as a package for ten dollars in Humble Detectives Packruns until September 12th. If you’ve ever been a little too interested in true crime and detective stories, you can’t miss this offer.
The beginning Overboard! Starts with you throwing your husband into the water and killing him. This happens early in the morning of your last day at sea. What follows are eight hours of gameplay where you must talk to the remaining passengers and crew, find out secrets or possible motives that are not your own, and suspect anyone who is not you so that you can start a new life in America.
Your first day will never go as well as you hope. A chambermaid might catch you having an affair with the ship’s captain, you might discover a stowaway on board, and thanks to an incredibly dynamic system, more possibilities and opportunities arise. Each passenger has their own schedule that they follow like clockwork, and you must choose your activities carefully, as every conversation and even every move between areas of the ship adds time. Eventually, you’ll get caught on your first day and find yourself right back where you started.
Yes, it is not just a detective game where you are the murderer, Overboard! Makes a And every day the groundhog greets you situation. After each failed attempt, you can try new paths throughout the day, applying knowledge from past lives to find a perfect route, or explore other options available to you. Eventually, you’ll gather so much additional knowledge about every person and object on board that you can start piecing together time-sensitive puzzles. You might want to sneak into a passenger’s room, which means you need to know when they’re on deck for air, but you also need to know when to steal their key. The whole thing becomes a complex web of moves and events that fall like dominoes if you change a single decision.
That sounds overwhelming, but Overboard! keeps all of its time loop shenanigans manageable by making each cycle only 45 minutes long in the real world. That’s perfectly timed so the loops don’t feel too long, meaning you don’t really have to keep an overly long list of tasks in your head to complete in perfect order either. It’s bite-sized and easily digestible. Keeping the loops so short also means you can do a lot in relatively few sessions, which unlocks the truly surprising twists Overboard! keeps it up his sleeve until late in the game. But I won’t give anything away about that.
If Overboard! sounds like it would relieve that mysterious itch for you, then grab the Humble Detectives Pack. You will also receive the 2022 movie mystery immortalitythe breathtaking vaporwave adventure that Paradise KillerMurder Puzzle Game Killer frequencyand three other titles.
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