# Overboard! — user reviews > 68 indexed App Store user reviews of Overboard! by inkle, rated 4.50/5 from 209 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/overboard/id1557505849/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/overboard/id1557505849.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 161 · 4★ 20 · 3★ 4 · 2★ 11 · 1★ 13 ## What do users think of Overboard!? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - 🎨 Excellent art style and visual design - ✍️ Well-written dialogue and compelling narrative - 🔄 High replayability with multiple endings and branching paths - 🧩 Clever puzzle design requiring strategic thinking - 😄 Entertaining and humorous gameplay - 📱 Great for mobile gaming and portable play - 🎭 Unique concept (reverse murder mystery) - 🎵 Good sound effects and music - 🧠 Engaging character interactions and depth **Cons** - ⏱️ Very short gameplay duration (10-30 minutes per playthrough) - 🔋 High battery consumption and device overheating - 💰 Expensive for the amount of content ($5.99) - 🔁 Repetitive dialogue and scenes across playthroughs - 📖 Excessive dialogue and text - 🎬 Long opening credits and introductory sequences - 🔊 Sound issues and audio not working properly - 📝 Tiny font size and text cutoff problems - 🎮 Limited interactive elements (mostly text-based choices) - ⚙️ No sound mute option (only music toggle) - 💾 No save game functionality for multiple players - 🔍 Unclear dialogue option descriptions **Commonly reported bugs** - Game crashes during gameplay - Sound/audio not working despite volume settings - Text cutoff and display issues - Excessive battery drain and device overheating - iOS 12 compatibility issues on older devices - Achievement tracking not visible on iOS version **Most requested features** - Chinese language support - Additional maps or story expansions - Sequel or spin-off content - Save game functionality for multiple players - Undo button for easier optimization - Full voice acting for all dialogue - Interactive backgrounds and rooms - Larger font size option - Complete sound mute option - Achievement tracking visibility on iOS - More varied endings and story paths ## Newest reviews (14 of 68) ### 2/5 — Nah *2025-11-28, version 1.4.2* Confused by the 30-45 minute advertising…this game is like 10 mins for one run, maybe 15 max. 😭 ### 4/5 — Pretty Good! *2025-01-31, version 1.4.2* Pretty good! I wish there was less dialogue, but that's just my personal taste. ### 4/5 — good but chinese pls *2024-11-15, version 1.4.2* please add Chinese language ### 2/5 — One of those Mac magazines says this is the greatest game! *2023-09-21* I have no idea why. Spoiler alert: nobody saw any thing, she didn’t confess and she was convicted. ### 3/5 — If only it were less repetitive *2022-09-27* Starts out strong, but it eventually reaches a point where the fun exploration phase is over and I’m trying to optimize my day, which involves lots of repetition. If I want to change one small thing and keep the rest the same, I have to redo the entire day much the same as before. Would be much less tedious with an undo button. ### 3/5 — The sound isn’t working for me? *2022-09-25* Hello! I just downloaded the game and I was excited to play but I don’t hear anything? My sound is all the way up on my phone and it works on other apps but not Overboard! I have the volume in game all the way up as well but still cannot hear things? I haven’t played it passed the beginning monologue because J want to get the story in full storytelling gameplay. I bet it’s good and I’m excited to play but I just want some sound help before I begin? Can anyone help me with tips or anything? Thank you! ### 3/5 — Super ! *2022-09-04* Super jeu, j'espère qu'il y en aura d'autres. J'enlève deux étoiles car il consomme beaucoup de batterie pour une app qui n'affiche qu'une suite d'écrans statiques. ### 2/5 — Very Disappointing After “80 Days” *2022-08-20* If you are coming to this app from 80 Days, lower your expectations. Lower. Lower. Keep going… Despite the high price point of $5.99, this game only lasts about 15 minutes on the first playthrough. There isn’t much variation, either. After two or three plays you’ll be experiencing more old than new material. The total word count must be roughly equivalent to a chapter of a YA novel. There’s no reason, from a user-based perspective, to fill a game with so much repetition. The advantage is entirely the designer’s. Imagine that you have to create five unique paragraphs, but that the sentences within those paragraphs don’t have to be unique. If you were lazy, you’d save yourself a lot of effort by repurposing the same sentences in different arrangements. That’s essentially what Inkle has done here. Instead of putting forth the effort to create a rich game even a fraction as good as 80 Days, they’re counting on players getting focused on slight variations to create different outcomes—even though that means that after a few short plays, most of what the players are experiencing is tired and repetitive. For some players, this is obviously working. For me, it’s a cheap trick. I thought for a moment that the story was going to continue with her life beyond the boat with new scenes—but no, it’s just that same dumb boat with the same handful of characters and rooms. If you’re going to provide so little material, fine, but drop the price several dollars. ### 4/5 — Great game but seems a bit too short *2022-06-13, version 1.4.2* Love the game just seems to be super short and replayability is a bit low as well ### 4/5 — Good *2022-06-09* I really like this, especially the rewind aspects and highlighting your previous choices - I took off a star because there’s no option to turn off sound completely, I use my iPad for white noise for my child and would like to play at the same time but can’t as the sound effects are still going, even with the music turned off in options ### 4/5 — Took me six tries *2022-06-08, version 1.4.2* This game was fun. Took me 6 attempts to “win.” I liked the variety of choices you can make as your character. ### 2/5 — Can’t see words *2022-01-03, version 1.3.0* The font is so tiny - if there was a setting to increase the size I could try it? ### 5/5 — Phenomenal! *2022-01-02* I truly love this game. It’s beautifully designed, SO clever, and devilishly hilarious! It took me more times than I can count, in order to “win” but I’ll be playing again to try other combinations. LOVE IT! More like this, please! ### 2/5 — Not Worth It *2021-12-30, version 1.3.0* Even when taking a new path a lot of the game seemed pretty repetitive. Each round also seems to go really quickly to me. Cool concept, but just not my favorite for how much it costs. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Heats device, needs fixes *2024-06-05, version 1.4.2* My iPad is extremely hot. Drains battery. Also Music doesn’t work , and some text is cut off. ### 1/5 — Disappointingly short *2024-05-26, version 1.4.2* I got hundreds of hours of fun out of 80 days and expected the same here. I was severely disappointed. With only three endings and 10 minutes per loop, this game can be beaten in only 30 minutes. I want my money back. ### 1/5 — Seems to capitalize on actual murder *2022-07-17, version 1.4.2* Let me explain: anyone who self-raised on hart to hart and later on realized natalie wood jokes were a thing and so was a great deal of money dependent on people knowing someone got away with murder — will watch the 1978 TV movie with Angie Dickinson eventually, and then buy this game the next morning. The choices they allow you are all suspicion-inviting. So it’s not a game just a kind of clickbait. ### 1/5 — 환불요청합니다. *2022-06-19* 제가 설치한게 아니었으며 갑자기 설치가 되었는데 무슨 문제가 있었던것 같습니다. 무료앱인줄 알고 바로 지웠는데 결재 메일을 이제야 확인했습니다. 환불바랍니다. ### 1/5 — Waste of money *2022-03-27, version 1.3.0* I played around the world in 80 days. This game doesn’t even come close. The options are repetitive and boring. The graphics are terrible. I paid 5.99 for this garbage. ### 1/5 — Dull *2022-01-09, version 1.3.0* I loved 80 Days but this game was predictable, pretty boring and repetitive. Feels like it could have been more interesting and engaging, but falls short... ### 1/5 — Soooooo boring *2021-12-22, version 1.3.0* I guess I don’t like a role playing game, this was just incredibly boring for me. Bought it an hour ago and pushed myself to get to the end. It’s just choosing dialogue…obviously a lot of people enjoyed it, but a bit waste for me, I’d never play it again. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ### 1/5 — Why so much hype… and so little help? *2021-08-28, version 1.3.0* I don’t do many games but Overboard sounded like fun. However, despite the very long introduction showcasing all the voice actors and sound effect artists , I couldn’t hear anything. IS there sound? No way to get help. The app support link just goes to the website store. Annoying to see all the production staff but no help. ### 1/5 — Can’t Even Play *2021-07-15, version 1.3.0* This game keeps crashing about a couple minutes into the game. Disgraceful. ### 1/5 — Déjà fini ?! *2021-07-02* Peut-être est-ce de la chance, mais j’ai fini ce jeu sans aucun obstacle, et dans un temps très, très court. J’aurais préféré tourner un peu en rond et avoir à me creuser la tête… mais comme mon expérience a été vraiment trop courte et sans challenge, je ne peux vraiment pas le recommander. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Such a good game *2024-12-22* Love this game so good for the airplane! I still haven’t beaten this game and I’ve found new things like a year after downloading I love it ### 5/5 — Good *2024-10-03, version 1.4.2* I need more! ### 5/5 — Fantastic game, albeit a bit short! *2024-03-11* This game is very well designed. Excellent graphics, music, gameplay, and characters. Beating the game will take probably less than an hour (like it did for me), but there are many side stories and achievements to be discovered, making this game extremely replayable! ### 5/5 — This game is so good!!! *2023-10-14* I wish they’d make a sequel or a spin off it’s so addicting, entertaining, well crafted, beautifully designed, ahhh I can’t rave about it enough! Give us more inkle this is the best phone game I’ve played in years! ### 5/5 — great game *2022-11-22, version 1.4.2* great game but a short one ### 5/5 — Just wow *2022-09-28* This is what I believe peak mobile gaming looks like. Unique concept, great art and art style, just fantastic. I really want to see more from these developers and story based games like this as I haven’t seen anything like it. Most story games on the App Store are cash grab garbage. This is truly one of the best most unique games on the App Store. Of course not without its flaws, but for a mobile game of this ambition, it deserves 5 stars ### 5/5 — The best game *2022-08-16, version 1.4.2* This is the best game and I finally finished the game. The game is drawn really well. Definitely be playing again every day! ### 5/5 — Missing saved games *2022-07-26* Pretty interesting game so far, but the one thing it sorely misses are saved games. Multiple people in my family want to play, but we can’t without having to ‘fully clear’ the game’s status to reset clues and tasks. A simple solution would be to add the capability to save games and switch between saved games. Thanks! ### 5/5 — Will They Ever Be Another Ending? *2022-05-19* I got all the endings, and I’m wondering, will they’ll be another ending, I have a great idea, after killing Clarissa, the ghost of Malcolm comes and tries to gives us a scare, Veronica wakes up only to reveal it’s been a dream, we then can take two choices by telling Malcolm that they had a dream or ordering champagne for Malcolm, leading into a route to poisoning Malcolm, that’s my idea ### 5/5 — Great game! *2022-01-16* I love point and click adventure games like this and this game did not disappoint. Great graphics and many different endings and achievements. Definitely recommend! --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-31.*