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Inkle makes being a monster magnificent in EXPELLED! AN OVERBOARD GAME

- By Abbie Stone

As a horrible person, I was delighted when I found out we were getting another Overboard game. Overboard was a delightfully nasty reverse-murder mystery, a timeloop adventure in which each run began with you tossing your screaming husband off a cruise ship. You then had to cover up your crime by framing others, outsmarting a Poirot-wannabe, sleeping your way to success, or even killing the entire crew. I adored it.

Expelled takes the basic bones of that game’s structure and sets it this time in Miss Mulligatawney’s School for Promising Girls, an elite 1920s training ground for wretched entitled cretins. You're Verity Amersham, the lowly scholarship student, and you've just been framed - possibly - for smashing a stained glass window. Oh, and shoving another girl out of it. You have until the end of the school day to clear your name, frame someone else, and/or discover why this happened in the first place.

That’s immediately a more knotty collection of mysteries than