School Age: Sea Battle

Battleship with the setup phase done properly. Your fleet starts scattered at random, and you can drag ships into position, double-click to rotate them, or hit Autodeploy to reshuffle the whole board until an arrangement looks right. Then comes the familiar hunt: call a square, read the result, narrow the grid down. The deployment screen is what lifts this sea battle above the dozens of other versions of the same game — it respects that half the fun is hiding your ships well before a single shot is fired.