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About the Story
A Prefect has been attacked. Everyone's blaming YOU. Can you find the real culprit? Mystery adventure with a wicked twist, from the creators of Overboard!
1922. Miss Mulligatawney's School for Promising Girls is one of the best boarding schools in England. You are Verity Amersham, here on a scholarship - and today you're going to be expelled for attempted murder.
From the creators of Overboard! and A Highland Song comes a highly replayable detective game with a wicked twist. Can you escape expulsion through fair means - or foul? Can you find the culprit - or someone else to take the blame?
Awards
Winner, Game of the Year - The Short Game podcast Game of the Year 2025
Ratings and Reviews
| Average Rating:   Number of Reviews Written by IFDB Members: 1 |
Enjoyed Overboard!? You'll love Expelled! The formula is the same: a time-loop where scholarship girl Verity Amersham must save herself from being found guilty of (attempted) murder by the end of the day. It works perfectly well standalone, but playing Overboard! first will provide some surprising connections. The girls' boarding school setting, reminiscent of St. Trinian's, works great as a place where egos collide, dark secrets lurk, and ambition can lead to (mild) violence. Dialogue and action choices are dynamic, encouraging rambunctious, rule-breaking, gleefully immoral behaviour. Expelled! ramps up the silliness from it's predecessor, with goofy detours into comedy and horror, but the tone stays consistent, and the writing is always on-point, complimented by fantastic era-appropriate tunes and a dazzling art style.
3 Off-Site Reviews
Adventure Game Hotspot
Expelled! excels at transferring its spiritual predecessor Overboard!’s charm, replayability and depth of choice to a boarding school setting, though its report card says it must try harder at putting its new morality mechanic into practice.
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The Guardian
Inkle’s latest game revels in lying, stealing and blackmail as you resort to any means necessary to avoid expulsion from a posh school
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Rock Paper Shotgun
Tell tales out of school (in school)
Where Overboard! felt like a direct riff on the works of Agatha Christie, Expelled! is in dialogue with a spread of school girl literature, from Enid Blyton's The Naughtiest Girl, to Elinor M. Brent-Dyer's Chalet School series, to school-set detective fiction like Dorothy Bowers' Fear For Miss Betony. Many of these stories are explicitly moralising, preaching obedience and manners and health above all to their intended audience of children. It's refreshing to be encouraged to perform bad deeds within such a setting, then, and of course, even if you haven't read any of the above, there's still a subversive thrill in creating mischief at school.
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First Publication Date: March 12, 2025
Current Version: Unknown
License: Commercial
Development System: Ink
IFID: Unknown
TUID: xzcc3rlk03i58j15
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