Games Released 2000-2009
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There are 348 games in this list in all stages of design, from the hazy beginning stages to fully-complete. You can opt to see just the 188 complete ones instead.
Name | Description | Min Players | Max Players | Game Mechanics | Year |
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EOF | Players use icehouse pieces to make patterns in a data stream. | 2 | 4 | Unknown | 2000 |
Extinction | Two races of creatures fight to make the other go extinct. | 2 | Capture | 2000 | |
Gleebs and Grues | Absorb your enemies while trying not to be eaten by a grue. | 2 | Capturing, Placement | 2000 | |
IceTraders | Starships battle for Good and Evil | 2 | 6 | Unknown | 2000 |
Ice Merchants | Venus is a hot place: The Place for the "in" crowd, party central for the solar system, and a tourist trap par excellance. There's just one problem. It's a HOT place... | 4 | Unknown | 2000 | |
Lonely Ice | A solitaire game of attack. | 1 | Unknown | 2000 | |
Martian Go | Players build branching tree structures from a root, trying to always branch from their own pieces, not their opponent's. | 2 | 4 | Unknown | 2000 |
Martian Tic-Tac-Toe | Tic-Tac-Toe with Icehouse pieces | 2 | Placement | 2000 | |
Pointsettia | Players compete to place their pieces. | 2 | Unknown | 2000 | |
Solace | patience puzzle for one | 1 | Stacking, Set collection | 2000 | |
Volcano | a puzzle game inspired by the spewing eruptions of volcanoes | 2 | 3 | Stacking, Set collection | 2000 |
Volcano (Polish) | Wulkany wybuchają, a płynąca lawa przynosi punkty. | 1 | 4 | Kolekcjonowanie piramidek, Gra na planszy | 2000 |
Volcano (variants) | Lava flows for points as the volcano erupts! | 1 | 4 | Eruption, Set collection | 2000 |
Zagami | Martian microbial life tries to survive and thrive on an asteroid | 4 | Unknown | 2000 | |
Aeb | Grow your forces and destroy the enemy. | 2 | 4 | None | 2001 |
Alheimur | An Icehouse space exploration game that uses an Aquarius deck. | 2 | 8 | None | 2001 |
Battle Zone | 2 | Unknown | 2001 | ||
Blockade | 2D race game | 2 | Unknown | 2001 | |
Bottoms Up | not given | 4 | 6 | Unknown | 2001 |
Breakthrough | 2 | Unknown | 2001 | ||
Crystal Formation | Create crystals formed into trees while trying to influence the development of your opponents nodes. | 2 | 6 | Unknown | 2001 |
Dragon's Hoard | Be the hero who escapes the dungeon with the most treasure before sunset. | 1 | 4 | Unknown | 2001 |
E, the Game of Martian Chinese Checkers | 2 | 6 | Unknown | 2001 | |
Efni | Use pyramids to win Fluxx goals | 2 | 6 | Set collection, Hidden information | 2001 |
Epicycle | Exchange your pieces for those in a circle. Avoid getting 3 pieces of the same size. | 2 | Unknown | 2001 | |
Gnostica | Gnostica, an updated version of Zarcana, involves capturing territory on an evolving board made up of Tarot cards. | 2 | 6 | Modular board, Card game | 2001 |
Homeworlds | A strategy game of starships, transformation, and negotiation | 2 | 6 | Unknown | 2001 |
Homeworlds (German) | Ein Strategiespiel um epische Weltraumschlachten | 2 | 6 | Unknown | 2001 |
Hostages | Be the first player to rescue all 5 of your hostages by returning them to your base. | 2 | None | 2001 | |
Ice Fishing | 2 | 4 | Unknown | 2001 | |
Ice Market | A real-time trading game | 3 | 6 | Unknown | 2001 |
Ice Storm | 3 | 5 | Unknown | 2001 | |
Ice Tiddly Winks | A quick dexterity game with simultaneous play | 1 | 6 | Dexterity | 2001 |
Ice3 | 1 | 100 | Stacking | 2001 | |
Invaders of Mars | Players take turns fleeing from a powerful alien menace bent on using them as fodder for breeding until only one player is left standing. | 2 | 4 | Capture, None | 2001 |
Kotra | A dice strategy game similar to Backgammon, played on a chessboard. | 2 | 4 | Movement | 2001 |
Mandala | A deceptively simple game of set collection | 2 | 5 | Set collection, Perfect information | 2001 |
Martian Backgammon | A Martian take on Backgammon | 2 | Unknown | 2001 | |
Martian Bowling | A dexterity game with random setup | 2 | 6 | Dexterity, Random Setup | 2001 |
Martian Canals | A placement and capture game of Martian stone circles and pyramids. | 2 | 12 | Placement, Capture | 2001 |
Martian Checkers | Pieces jump and immediately capture | 2 | Unknown | 2001 | |
Martian Life | 2 | 4 | Unknown | 2001 | |
Martian Mud Wrestling | A simple game of sinking in the mud | 2 | Unknown | 2001 | |
Martian Treasure Hunt | Players compete to have the most valuable pile of treasure at the end of the game. | 2 | 4 | Unknown | 2001 |
Martianopoly | "Chop down trees, erect buildings, make money." | 2 | 4 | Alignment | 2001 |
Mind Control | I | 2 | Unknown | 2001 | |
Nomice | An Icehouse/Nomic hybrid game. | 2 | 10 | Unknown | 2001 |
Pantopia | Pantopia is a game of territorial struggle, shifting fortune, and elemental magic. | 2 | 5 | Unknown | 2001 |
Protozoa | Create the most successful multi-celled colony creature | 2 | 4 | Placement | 2001 |
Pyramaze | Players race to reach their goals in this game that includes a randomly created board and the players' ability to swap the rules of movement throughout the game. | 2 | 4 | Unknown | 2001 |
RAMbots | In RAMbots, players design secret programs which are executed in an order determined by precedence, to control robots that are fighting to become the first to tag all of the goals. | 2 | 4 | Color powers, Programming | 2001 |
RAMbots (Polish) | Gracze potajemnie programują ruchy swoich robotów. | 2 | 4 | Progrmowanie, Gra na planszy | 2001 |
Rat Patrol | A precursor to the game Turtler | 2 | 6 | Unknown | 2001 |
Snowman Meltdown | Icehouse/piecepack hybrid snowman fight held on a comet. | 2 | 4 | Unknown | 2001 |
Stack Chess | 2 | Unknown | 2001 | ||
Terrafex | Players use icehouse pieces to grow forests, build mountains, start fires and melt glaciers. | 2 | Unknown | 2001 | |
The Great Martian Ice Machine | 2 | 4 | Unknown | 2001 | |
The IceStar | A geometrical puzzle game. | 1 | Unknown | 2001 | |
Triangulation | A war-game with programmed movement | 2 | 4 | Unknown | 2001 |
Turtler | Help your turtle navigate a busy 6-lane freeway | 2 | 4 | Unknown | 2001 |
Uibadi | Battle your opponents. | 2 | Unknown | 2001 | |
Zendo | Players achieve satori when they discover the secret rule that explains which koans have the elusive Buddha-nature | 3 | 7 | Unknown | 2001 |
Alien City (German) | Icehouse/Piecepack Hybrid. Städtebau auf einem weit entfernten Planeten für zwei Spieler | 2 | Tile laying, Complex scoring | 2002 | |
Alien City | Icehouse/piecepack hybrid game of city building | 2 | Tile laying, Complex scoring | 2002 | |
Attactics | 2 | 4 | Unknown | 2002 | |
Branches & Twigs & Thorns | Players build branching tree structures from a root, trying to always branch from their own pieces, not their opponent's. | 2 | 4 | Unknown | 2002 |
Branches & Twigs & Thorns (Polish) | Gra strategiczna, gracze zapełniają plansze swoimi piramidami. | 2 | 4 | Zapełnianie planszy, Dokładanie piramidek | 2002 |
Chivalry | 2 | Unknown | 2002 | ||
Civil-ice-ation | 3 | 6 | Unknown | 2002 | |
CrackeD ICE (Polish) | Gra zręcznościowa, stąpając po lodzie należy uważać, by się nie załamał. | 2 | 5 | Gra zręcznościowa, Dokładanie piramidek | 2002 |
CrackeD Ice | Don't tip the ice floe! | 3 | 5 | Dexterity, Balance | 2002 |
Edges | Edges is an abstract strategy game of placement for two, played on the 31 edges (not squares or points) of a three by four rectangular grid representing the canal network. | 2 | Unknown | 2002 | |
Erebusicehouse | A darkly-themed game of Life, Death, War, Disease, and Soul collection | 2 | Unknown | 2002 | |
Generator | Be the first player with a power coupling on each of the other nodes. | 2 | 4 | Unknown | 2002 |
Hailstorm | a very random betting game | 2 | 10 | Unknown | 2002 |
Ice Age | Mastodons vs the Hunters | 2 | Unknown | 2002 | |
Landrush | Compete to own the land worth the greatest value. | 2 | 5 | Unknown | 2002 |
Litróf | A chess variation with Icehouse pyramids | 2 | Unknown | 2002 | |
Magic Mids | Mages play a game of placement and capture. | 2 | 4 | Unknown | 2002 |
Martian Greenhouse | Solitaire game of breeding different species | 1 | Unknown | 2002 | |
Martian Mids | wreak havoc with Martian Mids | 2 | 4 | Unknown | 2002 |
Martian Quilting | Assembling pyramidal pieces | 2 | 6 | Unknown | 2002 |
Munabo | A real-time game played on a napkin | 2 | 10 | Unknown | 2002 |
Nightmare Pachisi | A multitrack linear wargame | 2 | 4 | Unknown | 2002 |
Nonub Ish | 4 | Unknown | 2002 | ||
Pyramid Scheme | Build pyramids, attack your enemy, and earn Ra’s favor by being the first to gather the correct number of favor tokens. | 2 | 4 | Placement, Stacking | 2002 |
Rotationary | rotate pieces in place | 1 | Unknown | 2002 | |
Skurðir | An Icehouse Transportation Game | 2 | 5 | Unknown | 2002 |
TMAG: The Martian Assassination Game | Be the first victim to reach all of the bases | 3 | 9 | Unknown | 2002 |
Volcano Race | Volcano Race: Played by Martian children everywhere! | 2 | Unknown | 2002 | |
Folio | An abstract strategy game for two players inspired by Quarto | 2 | Unknown | 2003 | |
Ice Dao | Ice Dao is a quick little abstract strategy game for two players. | 2 | Alignment | 2003 | |
IceSickle | IceSickle is a bit similar to checkers, but was originally inspired by solitaire peg jumping games | 2 | Jumping, Placement | 2003 | |
Sorcerer's Apprentice | 2 | Unknown | 2003 | ||
Spicklehead | A game of self-inflicted bodily harm...with Icehouse pieces | 1 | 100 | Unknown | 2003 |
Sprawl | Competitive city building | 3 | 8 | Unknown | 2003 |
Tic Tac Doh! | Slightly twisted variant of Tic-Tac-Toe | 2 | Unknown | 2003 | |
Töframenn | A fantasy strategy game where wizards, experts in a variety of elemental arts (represented by nine colors), face off in a battle of good verses evil. | 2 | Unknown | 2003 | |
Ways of the Towering Tribesmen | Two barbaric tribes at war | 2 | Interposition | 2003 | |
Antshouse | Ants running the gauntlet over a pavement while mean kids tries to splat them. | 2 | 4 | Unknown | 2004 |
Arena | Roll a D20 to knock down as many pyramids as possible | 2 | 4 | Unknown | 2004 |
Binary Homeworlds | A 2-player variant of the standard Homeworlds game | 2 | Color powers, Resource management | 2004 | |
Ice Palace | A game of simple mechanics but complex interactions where players compete to win “hands” and ultimately control the construction of the Ice Palace. | 3 | 6 | Placement, Pyramid draw | 2004 |
Ice Solo | A solitaire game. | 1 | Unknown | 2004 | |
Icebomb Arena | 4 | 5 | Unknown | 2004 | |
Icehouse Plant Game | Grow your pieces toward the sun | 3 | 4 | Unknown | 2004 |
King o' the Castle | A strategy game where players try to invade one another's castles | 2 | Unknown | 2004 | |
Limn | A Balderdash-style bluffing game | 4 | 10 | Unknown | 2004 |
Martian Shogi | Chess/shogi variant with pyramids. | 2 | Unknown | 2004 | |
Missile Command | Use your Missile Batteries offensively to uncover and eliminate enemy Presidents while at the same time defending your own President from attack. | 2 | 10 | Unknown | 2004 |
Moscow Ice | This is Chinese checkers for pyramids with some twists. | 2 | 4 | Unknown | 2004 |
Spellcycles | Cast complex spells on other players and gain prestige. | 2 | 5 | Unknown | 2004 |
Icehouse Null Game | The Game of Playing with Pyramids | 1 | 100 | Unknown | 2004 |
Turning Points | Pyramids spin like interconnected gears as each new piece is added | 1 | 6 | Reactions | 2004 |
Undercut | In Undercut, players try to bid low to get pieces with the lowest value. | 3 | 5 | Unknown | 2004 |
Venusian Bowling | Roll a D20 at pyramids to knock them down | 2 | 6 | Unknown | 2004 |
What Blind Ninjas? | A game of moving silently and striking carefully | 2 | 4 | Unknown | 2004 |
A-A-Arctic Kettering | Abstract | 2 | Unknown | 2005 | |
Armada | In Armada, a fleet of fast, maneuverable ships does battle with a fleet of slow, powerful ships. | 2 | Measured movement | 2005 | |
Automaton | This is a Robotic Combat game | 2 | 4 | Simultaneous action | 2005 |
Bears, Foxes & Hares | A race to the center | 2 | 4 | Unknown | 2005 |
Blam! | Looking for someone to shove? Strategize in Blam! with two to four elbow-room seekers. | 2 | 4 | Unknown | 2005 |
Blam! (Polish) | Abstrakcyjna gra planszowa polegająca na wypychaniu piramid przeciwnika poza obręb szachownicy | 2 | 4 | Zapełnianie planszy, Dokładanie piramidek | 2005 |
Capstone | In Capstone, players try to build stacks that match their secret goal stacks. | 2 | Unknown | 2005 | |
Cardinal Connections | In Cardinal Connections, players try to make more pyramids point towards themselves than toward the other players. | 2 | 4 | Board | 2005 |
Cold Spell | Spell the most valuable words with your tiles | 2 | 4 | Unknown | 2005 |
Coup | Take over a small country | 3 | 5 | Unknown | 2005 |
Deception | In Deception, players try to get their secret pyramid to the other end of the board while avoiding capture. | 2 | Unknown | 2005 | |
Forts | A game of building and tearing down. | 2 | 4 | Unknown | 2005 |
Gnaqush | Hop to the other end of the board and promote your pieces | 2 | 4 | Unknown | 2005 |
Hexano | A variant of Volcano played on a hexagonal board instead of a square 5x5 one | 2 | Unknown | 2005 | |
Hexano-Duel | A more strategic variant of Volcano played with 9 stashes on a hexagonal board | 2 | Volcano | 2005 | |
Hextris | Abstract | 2 | 3 | Placement, Movement | 2005 |
Ice Arena | Ice Arena is a tactical arena combat game. | 2 | 4 | Unknown | 2005 |
Ice Fu | There can be only one | 2 | Unknown | 2005 | |
Ice Ice Baby | 2 | 4 | Unknown | 2005 | |
Ice Lady | A variant of Turkish checkers, aka Dama, using Icehouse pieces. | 2 | Unknown | 2005 | |
Ice Pirates | 2 | 5 | Unknown | 2005 | |
Ice Soo Sorry | Based on the board game "Sorry" | 2 | 4 | Unknown | 2005 |
IceCream | A two player game that requires no playing surface. | 2 | Unknown | 2005 | |
IceDam | This is a multiplayer variant of IceSickle. | 2 | 4 | Unknown | 2005 |
IceDuel | A miniatures-oriented, arena duel game with an unusual character creation format. | 2 | 4 | Color powers | 2005 |
IceHanoi | A solo game of trying to turn nests into trees | 1 | Unknown | 2005 | |
Iceberg | Guess correctly and be rewarded | 2 | Guessing | 2005 | |
Iceships | An idea, not a game yet | 4 | Unknown | 2005 | |
Imperial Shuffle | Block your opponent's Emperor from being able to move | 2 | Unknown | 2005 | |
Influence | A game of push and pull in which players play their pyramids onto a hex grid to exert influence on stones of three different colors. | 3 | 4 | Unknown | 2005 |
Intersect | placement and simultaneous capture | 2 | Placement, Simultaneous action | 2005 | |
Juxtapose | Players play a 'tic-tac-toe'-like game using a 4x4 board and a single stash of pieces from a common pool. | 2 | 4 | Unknown | 2005 |
King of the Sinking Iceberg | Jump and capture small caps on a shrinking board | 2 | Unknown | 2005 | |
Mega Hexano | A variant of Volcano played with 9 stashes on a hexagonal board | 2 | 4 | Unknown | 2005 |
Middleman | Maneuver around a cramped board to reunite your pieces | 2 | Movement, N/A | 2005 | |
Quintazone | An Icehouse/Aquarius hybrid | 2 | 5 | Tile-laying, Placement | 2005 |
Robot House | Robot House is a tactical arena game inspired by Meatbot Massacre. | 2 | 4 | Unknown | 2005 |
Simple Life or Death | 2 | 10 | Unknown | 2005 | |
Snowblind | How do you win a game if you have more control over your opponents’ pieces than your own? | 4 | Unknown | 2005 | |
Spectra | A game of color theory | 2 | 6 | Unknown | 2005 |
Spike | A strategy game of moves and counter-moves with maze-like aspects | 2 | Unknown | 2005 | |
StarRunners | Race through the star system | 2 | Unknown | 2005 | |
Synapse-Ice | An adaptation of the paper-and-pencil game Synapse' | 2 | Unknown | 2005 | |
Synapse-Ice (Polish) | Zapełnianie planszy piramidkami | 2 | Zapełnianie planszy | 2005 | |
Take That! | A short three in a row game where your opponent chooses the piece you have to play | 2 | Unknown | 2005 | |
Ticket to Mars | Mashup of Icehouse with Ticket to Ride | 2 | 5 | Unknown | 2005 |
Torpedo | Each piece is a naval ship, all placed on the field of play in a mad rush. Then the small ships shoot torpedoes, then the medium ones, and then the large ones. The player with the most pips of ships left at the end is the winner. | 2 | 5 | Unknown | 2005 |
Traction | Players walk their pyramids in a race to the finish line, and stop their opponents from getting there first! | 2 | 4 | Unknown | 2005 |
Transformartian | Create grid formations with colored pyramids | 2 | 4 | Unknown | 2005 |
Tree-Halma | Treehouse update to an older game | 2 | 4 | Unknown | 2005 |
Triforce | In Triforce, players combat for control over a portion of a triangular playing field. | 3 | 6 | Unknown | 2005 |
Triluminary | In Triluminary, players battle for influence over the Grey Council. | 2 | Unknown | 2005 | |
Triumvirate | Capture at least two trees' worth of opponent's pieces | 2 | Unknown | 2005 | |
Tugga War | Pull twelve pips into your goal | 2 | Unknown | 2005 | |
Zendo-Tao | Zendo masters take small steps along the path to discover the one true secret rule. | 2 | 100 | Unknown | 2005 |
Alchemy ICE | Noughts and crosses with randomized "symbols" of five different types. | 2 | 6 | Unknown | 2006 |
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 | Unknown | 2006 |
Cover Up | Cover up your opponent's options and get 4-in-a-row | 2 | Unknown | 2006 | |
Crystal City Catan | Colonial building in the style of The Settlers of Catan by Klaus Teuber | 2 | Resource Management | 2006 | |
Foxtrot | An abstract strategy game | 2 | 3 | Unknown | 2006 |
Ikkozendo | Players achieve satori when they discover the secret rule that explains which koans have the elusive Buddha-nature | 2 | 100 | Inductive logic, Turn-based | 2006 |
La Columna de Trajano | abstract strategy board game for Icehouse of elimination | 2 | Movement, Elimination | 2006 | |
La Linterna de Lisicrates | An abstract strategy game | 2 | Unknown | 2006 | |
Martian Coasters | The Beverage-Coaster Treehouse Board Game | 2 | 6 | Dynamic board, Stacking | 2006 |
Martian Coasters (Polish) | Gra rozgrywająca się na podkładkach Martian Coasters | 2 | 6 | Podkładki, Rzuty kością | 2006 |
Martian Gunslinger | An abstract Western theme boardgame with a checkerboard | 2 | 4 | Set collection, Direct conflict, Resource management | 2006 |
Martian Mah Jongg | A rummy game in the style of Chinese Mah Jongg | 2 | 4 | Unknown | 2006 |
Martian Pachisi | An Icehouse version of Pachisi | 2 | 10 | Unknown | 2006 |
Mundialito | abstract strategy board game for Icehouse of movement and attainment | 2 | Movement, Attainment, Turn-based | 2006 | |
Olympus Mons | A chess-like game where captured pieces are worth their pip-value | 2 | Unknown | 2006 | |
Pach-Ice-i | Get all your pieces to your opponent's start | 2 | Unknown | 2006 | |
Par-Trees-i | Get all your pieces to the center goal | 2 | 4 | Unknown | 2006 |
Pentamid | Get five pieces in a row | 2 | Piece placement, Piece movement | 2006 | |
Power Tower | Build high towers by taking over pieces from other towers. | 2 | 4 | Unknown | 2006 |
Ratones Colorados | A game of mice, cats, and traps | 3 | 4 | Area control | 2006 |
Share and Share Alike | A game of shifting loyalties | 4 | Tower-building, Market speculation | 2006 | |
Supercalifragilisticano | Square Volcano beyond "Mega" | 1 | 5 | Eruption | 2006 |
Take It Or Leave It | A "Press Your Luck" style Treehouse game | 2 | 6 | Unknown | 2006 |
ThreeStone | Try to build stacks that match your secret goal stacks. | 2 | Stacking, Hidden information | 2006 | |
Titanice | Be the first to steer your transatlantic liner into an iceberg! | 2 | 4 | Unknown | 2006 |
Torres de Asedio | Open a gap in enemy walls to take your army across the board | 2 | 4 | Unknown | 2006 |
Treehouse | Make your trio match the House trio before anyone else | 2 | 4 | Dice, Pattern formation | 2006 |
Treehouse (Polish) | Gra oparta na kostce Treehouse | 2 | 4 | Rzuty kością, Dopasowanie do wzorca | 2006 |
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