Games Released 2000-2009

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There are 345 games in this list in all stages of design, from the hazy beginning stages to fully-complete. You can opt to see just the 186 complete ones instead.

Name	Description	Min Players	Max Players	Game Mechanics	Year
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	2	Capture	2000
Gleebs and Grues	Absorb your enemies while trying not to be eaten by a grue.	2	2	Capturing, Placement	2000
IceTraders	Starships battle for Good and Evil			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...			Unknown	2000
Lonely Ice	A solitaire game of attack.		1	Unknown	2000
Martian Tic-Tac-Toe	Tic-Tac-Toe with Icehouse pieces		2	Placement	2000
Pointsettia	Players compete to place their pieces.			Unknown	2000
Solace	patience puzzle for one	1	1	Stacking, Set collection	2000
Volcano (variants)	Lava flows for points as the volcano erupts!	1	4	Eruption, 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
Zagami	Martian microbial life tries to survive and thrive on an asteroid			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	2	Unknown	2001
Blockade	2D race game			Unknown	2001
Bottoms Up	not given	4	6	Unknown	2001
Breakthrough		2	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				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.			Unknown	2001
Homeworlds	A strategy game of starships, transformation, and negotiation	2		Unknown	2001
Homeworlds (German)	Ein Strategiespiel um epische Weltraumschlachten			Unknown	2001
Hostages	Be the first player to rescue all 5 of your hostages by returning them to your base.	2	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		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			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	2	Unknown	2001
Martian Life		2	4	Unknown	2001
Martian Mud Wrestling	A simple game of sinking in the mud			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			Unknown	2001
Nomice	An Icehouse/Nomic hybrid game.			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.			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	2	Unknown	2001
Terrafex	Players use icehouse pieces to grow forests, build mountains, start fires and melt glaciers.			Unknown	2001
The Great Martian Ice Machine		2	4	Unknown	2001
The IceStar	A geometrical puzzle game.	1	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			Unknown	2001
Alien City	Icehouse/piecepack hybrid game of city building		2	Tile laying, Complex scoring	2002
Alien City (German)	Icehouse/Piecepack Hybrid. Städtebau auf einem weit entfernten Planeten für zwei Spieler		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.			Unknown	2002
Branches & Twigs & Thorns (Polish)	Gra strategiczna, gracze zapełniają plansze swoimi piramidami.	2	6	Zapełnianie planszy, Dokładanie piramidek	2002
Chivalry		2	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.			Unknown	2002
Erebusicehouse	A darkly-themed game of Life, Death, War, Disease, and Soul collection	2	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			Unknown	2002
Ice Age	Mastodons vs the Hunters	2	2	Unknown	2002
Landrush	Compete to own the land worth the greatest value.	2	5	Unknown	2002
Litróf	A chess variation with Icehouse pyramids			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	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		Unknown	2002
Nightmare Pachisi	A multitrack linear wargame	2	4	Unknown	2002
Nonub Ish		4	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			Unknown	2002
Skurðir	An Icehouse Transportation Game			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		2	2	Unknown	2003
Ice Dao	Ice Dao is a quick little abstract strategy game for two players.	2	2	Alignment	2003
IceSickle	IceSickle is a bit similar to checkers, but was originally inspired by solitaire peg jumping games	2	2	Jumping, Placement	2003
Sorcerer's Apprentice				Unknown	2003
Spicklehead	A game of self-inflicted bodily harm...with Icehouse pieces			Unknown	2003
Sprawl	Competitive city building			Unknown	2003
Tic Tac Doh!	Slightly twisted variant of Tic-Tac-Toe			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.			Unknown	2003
Ways of the Towering Tribesmen	Two barbaric tribes at war	2	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	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	2	Unknown	2004
Limn	A Balderdash-style bluffing game	4	10	Unknown	2004
Martian Shogi	Chess/shogi variant with pyramids.			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.			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			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	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			Simultaneous action	2005
Bears, Foxes & Hares	A race to the center			Unknown	2005
Blam!	Looking for someone to shove? Strategize in Blam! with two to four elbow-room seekers.			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.			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	2	Unknown	2005
Coup	Take over a small country			Unknown	2005
Deception	In Deception, players try to get their secret pyramid to the other end of the board while avoiding capture.			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			Unknown	2005
Hexano-Duel	A more strategic variant of Volcano played with 9 stashes on a hexagonal board	2	2	Volcano	2005
Hextris	Abstract	2	3	Placement, Movement	2005
Ice Arena	Ice Arena is a tactical arena combat game.			Unknown	2005
Ice Fu	There can be only one			Unknown	2005
Ice Ice Baby				Unknown	2005
Ice Lady	A variant of turkish checkers, aka Dama, using Icehouse pieces.			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.			Unknown	2005
IceDam	This is a multiplayer variant of IceSickle.			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	1	Unknown	2005
Synapse-Ice (Polish)	Zapełnianie planszy piramidkami	2	2	Zapełnianie planszy	2005
Iceberg	Guess correctly and be rewarded	2	2	Guessing	2005
Iceships	An idea, not a game yet			Unknown	2005
Imperial Shuffle	Block your opponent's Emperor from being able to move	2	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.			Unknown	2005
Intersect	placement and simultaneous capture			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			Unknown	2005
Mega Hexano	A variant of Volcano played with 9 stashes on a hexagonal board			Unknown	2005
Middleman	Maneuver around a cramped board to reunite your pieces	2	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.			Unknown	2005
Simple Life or Death				Unknown	2005
Snowblind	How do you win a game if you have more control over your opponents’ pieces than your own?	4	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'			Unknown	2005
Take That!	A short three in a row game where your opponent chooses the piece you have to play			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.			Unknown	2005
Traction	Players walk their pyramids in a race to the finish line, and stop their opponents from getting there first!			Unknown	2005
Transformartian	Create grid formations with colored pyramids	2	4	Unknown	2005
Tree-Halma	Treehouse update to an older game	2		Unknown	2005
Triforce	In Triforce, players combat for control over a portion of a triangular playing field.			Unknown	2005
Triluminary	In Triluminary, players battle for influence over the Grey Council.			Unknown	2005
Triumvirate	Capture at least two trees' worth of opponent's pieces			Unknown	2005
Tugga War	Pull twelve pips into your goal			Unknown	2005
Zendo-Tao	Zendo masters take small steps along the path to discover the one true secret rule.			Unknown	2005
Alchemy ICE	Noughts and crosses with randomized "symbols" of five different types.			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).			Unknown	2006
Ratones Colorados	A game of mice, cats, and traps	3	4	Area control	2006
Cover Up	Cover up your opponent's options and get 4-in-a-row	2	2	Unknown	2006
Crystal City Catan	Colonial building in the style of The Settlers of Catan by Klaus Teuber	2	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		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	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		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	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			Unknown	2006
Pentamid	Get five pieces in a row	2	2	Piece placement, Piece movement	2006
Power Tower	Build high towers by taking over pieces from other towers.			Unknown	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!			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
Trip Away	Be the first player with no pieces in front of you	2	4	Colorless	2006
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