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Peekaboat

Peek · Splash · Set Sail

The game loads when you press play.

  • Free
  • No ads
  • No account needed
  • No install — plays in your browser

About the game

Hide five little boats in your bay, then find the rival fleet square by square. Every boat you uncover toots its horn and sails home.

Peekaboat is a friendly game of hide-and-seek on the water, built for the seatback. Moor your five boats anywhere in your harbour, then take turns lobbing splash pods into the bay across the water. A pod that lands on empty water leaves a ring of foam; a pod that finds a hull marks a buoy. Uncover every square of a boat and it sounds its horn and sails safely home. Find the whole rival fleet before they find yours and you sail on to the next bay, where the rival plays a sharper game. Three voyages carry the whole run. Nothing is ever sunk and nothing is fired: it is a water fight, and everybody goes home dry-ish. The harbour is rendered in real 3D with a custom renderer built for seatback hardware, and the whole game is one file that never touches the network.

How to play

  1. Hide your five little boats in your bay.
  2. Take turns tossing a splash pod at the rival bay.
  3. A red buoy means you found a boat. A white ring means water.
  4. Find every square of a boat and it toots and sails home.
  5. Find the whole rival fleet to clear the bay.
  6. If the rival finds your fleet first you lose a voyage.
  7. You get three voyages per run. Score carries across bays.
  8. Camera: tap the camera button, or press C or V or the gamepad's View button, to switch between the harbour view, low over the bay, and the chart from above.

Controls

Touchtap a square to aim, tap again to splash.
MouseClick a square to aim, then click it again to splash.
KeyboardArrow keys or WASD move the aim, Space or Enter splashes, Esc or Backspace goes back, R turns a boat while you place your fleet, and P pauses.
Gamepadleft stick aim · A splash · RT charge · LT fine aim · B back · Y turn boat · Start quit

Screenshots

  • Two floating grid bays on a bright blue sea, the near one holding five toy boats, a lighthouse islet off to the left
  • Main menu over a calm evening sea: Peekaboat logo, green Play button, then Harbour Editor, How to Play, High Scores
  • Low over the Rival Bay: foam rings mark misses and three buoys mark hits on the 3D grid; score 30, Bay 1, found 0/5
  • The chart view straight down on Your Bay while hiding the fleet: five boats moored above Turn, Shuffle, Clear and Set Sail
  • Harbour Editor with Bay size 10, 3 voyages, Auto rival skill, High graphics and a fleet of five named boats
  • Low over Your Bay on the rival's turn: foam rings around five boats, the Rival Bay and a lighthouse behind; score 320

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