Games in Design Stage Playtesting

Games by Release Year           Games by Design Stage

There are 74 games in the Playtesting stage.

Name	Description	Min Players	Max Players	Status	Year Released
EOF	Players use icehouse pieces to make patterns in a data stream.	2	4	Playtesting	2000
Aeb	Grow your forces and destroy the enemy.	2	4	Playtesting	2001
Alheimur	An Icehouse space exploration game that uses an Aquarius deck.	2	8	Playtesting	2001
Bottoms Up	A stacking game with color powers for 4 to 6 players	4	6	Playtesting	2001
Gemini	A quick game of luck and strategy		2	Playtesting	2001
Martian Checkers	Pieces jump and immediately capture		2	Playtesting	2001
Terrafex	Players use icehouse pieces to grow forests, build mountains, start fires and melt glaciers.		2	Playtesting	2001
Nightmare Pachisi	A multitrack linear wargame	2	4	Playtesting	2002
Icehouse Plant Game	Grow your pieces toward the sun	3	4	Playtesting	2004
King o' the Castle	A strategy game where players try to invade one another's castles		2	Playtesting	2004
Limn	A Balderdash-style bluffing game	4	10	Playtesting	2004
Hexano	A variant of Volcano played on a 3x3 hexagonal board instead of a 5x5 square one		2	Playtesting	2005
Ice Soo Sorry	Based on the board game "Sorry"	2	4	Playtesting	2005
Mega Hexano	A variant of Volcano played with 9 stashes on a hexagonal board	2	4	Playtesting	2005
Spike	A strategy game of moves and counter-moves with maze-like aspects		2	Playtesting	2005
Traction	Players walk their pyramids in a race to the finish line, and stop their opponents from getting there first!	2	4	Playtesting	2005
Centrifice	Centrifice is a hurling match, introducing a new mechanic for stackable Icehouse pieces: Centrificeing (hurling your Icehouse pieces with the help of other Icehouse pieces).	1	100	Playtesting	2006
Foxtrot	An abstract game of alignment	2	3	Playtesting	2006
La Linterna de Lisi­crates	An abstract strategy game of stacking		2	Playtesting	2006
Ratones Colorados	A game of mice, cats, and traps	3	4	Playtesting	2006
Torres de Asedio	Open a gap in enemy walls to take your army across the board	2	4	Playtesting	2006
Ballistic Wars	A pure strategy game of knocking down enemy walls	3	6	Playtesting	2007
Catapults	In Catapults, each player builds a castle and then tries to tear down the castles of the other players.	1	10	Playtesting	2007
Chaos	Collect all 10 colors	2	5	Playtesting	2007
Coaster Chess	Martian Chess meets Martian Coasters	2	4	Playtesting	2007
Coastercano	Mega Volcano that uses Martian Coasters and Treehouse Dice	2	4	Playtesting	2007
High Ground	A game of strategy and luck that uses playing cards as the board and pyramids as the pieces a la Gnostica.	2	4	Playtesting	2007
Ice Boule	Play the dexterity game Boule with your Icehouse pieces, using the Centrifice-mechanic.	1	10	Playtesting	2007
Kumbha	Aquarius for IceHouse	2	5	Playtesting	2007
Ley Lines of Mars	Place pyramids on the surface of Mars to claim mystic dominance		2	Playtesting	2007
Martian Shuffleboard	A game of dexterous strategy for 2 to 10 players.	2	10	Playtesting	2007
Stacktors!	A role-playing game system using pyramids.	2	100	Playtesting	2007
X Spectrum	Combine and Conquer		2	Playtesting	2007
Zombie Coasters	Stop the Zombie plague before it gets out of hand!	1	3	Playtesting	2007
Conquest of Mars	Abstract wargame using pyramids, cards, and dice	2	4	Playtesting	2008
Martian BattleSpires	Martian BattleSpires is a game of domination by advantage.		2	Playtesting	2008
Martian Flood	Players score points by building ships & towers that survive the floods	3	4	Playtesting	2008
Penguin Marathon	An epic race on the slippery Martian slopes	2	5	Playtesting	2008
T-Minus	It's Not Rocket Science.	2	6	Playtesting	2008
Continuum	Use pyramids and a poker deck to get your trees to exchange places		2	Playtesting	2009
Fleet	A space fleet game	2	5	Playtesting	2009
Ice Draughts	Advanced variant of Draughts	2	4	Playtesting	2009
Icehouse Dash	Be the first to complete all five trees	1	4	Playtesting	2009
One Square at a Time to the Capture	Advance to capture the giant.	2	4	Playtesting	2009
Treehouse Snakes and Ladders	Snakes & Ladders with pyramids, real decisions, and lots of player interaction.	2	5	Playtesting	2009
Tri-Prism Face Off	Opponents race to finish line	2	5	Playtesting	2009
Ziggurat	A push-and-shove race around and up the sides of a pyramid.	2	4	Playtesting	2009
Ascendancy	A turn-based game of tower building.	2	5	Playtesting	2010
Crystal Traders	Trade crystals with people from other worlds	3	6	Playtesting	2010
Chain Reaction	Fire 'particles' at 'atoms' and direct the chain reaction to let you capture pieces	2	6	Playtesting	2011
Crystal Wars	Wargame played on Martian Coasters	2	4	Playtesting	2011
IceCubed	A game utilizing IceDice components and a Mega-Volcano board: Players are randomly given opportunities for movement, attack, and supply to the board while also presented the opportunity to seek revenge and wreak havoc on their opponents.	2	4	Playtesting	2011
Nimbus	A multiplayer combinatorial game with an icy association to the game Nim.	2	10	Playtesting	2011
Sphinx's Paw	Escape from monsters beneath the Great Pyramid of Giza	2	4	Playtesting	2011
Treasure Slide	Slide on the ice while collecting treasure.		2	Playtesting	2011
Barrakesh Express	Control surface transport on Mars	2	4	Playtesting	2012
Cascades	A two-player mountaineering race.		2	Playtesting	2012
Evacuate	Get your Stacktor clans out of burning nightclubs before your rival/s manage/s to do the same.	2	4	Playtesting	2012
GravityPlane	A 2-8 player variant on Martian Coasters	2	8	Playtesting	2012
Houses of Thoth	Erecting Pyramids on Tarot cards, and vice versa	2	5	Playtesting	2012
Phalanstery	Organize a harmonious group within the utopian phalanx	1	2	Playtesting	2013
Temple of Masks	A game about the Mayans	2	4	Playtesting	2013
CarboniteDice	A solo variant of IceDice		1	Playtesting	2014
Initiative	An abstract fencing game of perfect information.		2	Playtesting	2014
Logistics	A game of Logistics in progress		2	Playtesting	2014
Malice	An abstract strategy game of piece movement, capture and teleportation.		2	Playtesting	2014
MartianWhist	Resolving a trick in Martian Whist		2	Playtesting	2014
Martianopolis 500	Zip around the track to the finish.	2	4	Playtesting	2014
Ice Etin's Cave			4	Playtesting	2015
3stica	What if Gnostica and Risk had a baby?	2	5	Playtesting	2017
Super Death Ray	Image coming soon...	2	3	Playtesting	2017
Traffic Tyrants	A pyramid game inspired by a children's game of traffic lights		2	Playtesting	2017
Cliff Mining	Use your deduction skills to work out what's in the cliff	3	5	Playtesting	2020