Games in Design Stage Playtesting

There are 73 games in the Playtesting stage.

See also: Count of Games by Design Stage and Games by Release Year

Name	Description	Min Players	Max Players	Status	Year
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	Not given	4	6	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 hexagonal board instead of a square 5x5 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 strategy game	2	3	Playtesting	2006
La Linterna de Lisi­crates	An abstract strategy game		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	High Ground is a game of Strategy and luck that uses playing cards as the board (gnostica fans unite!), and Icehouse pyramids as the player's pieces.	2	4	Playtesting	2007
Ice Boule	Play a game of Boule with your Icehouse pieces and using the Centrifice-mechanic.	1	10	Playtesting	2007
Kumbha	Not given	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	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
Ziggurat Demolition Throwdown	A game of angry magic for pyramids and the Decktet	2	5	Playtesting	2011
Barrakesh Express	Control surface transport on Mars	2	4	Playtesting	2012
Cascades	A mountaineering two-players 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 game of CarboniteDice in progress.		1	Playtesting	2014
Initiative	An initiative stack		2	Playtesting	2014
Logistics	A game of Logistics in progress		2	Playtesting	2014
Malice	Malice. Get some.		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