Browse games/High strategy depth

This is a list of games with lots of strategy. Games like Chess would fall in to this category.

Name	Description	Min Players	Max Players	Number of colors	Trios per color	Game Mechanics	Status
Advanced Colonization	A game of space combat and expansion.		2	5	2	Unknown	Complete
Agnostica	Agnostica, a simplified version of Gnostica, involves capturing territory on an evolving board made up of Zark City cards.	2	5	1 per player	3 (5 for the complex game)	Modular board, Card game	Complete
Albiorix	A chess-like game without captures		2	2	5	Chess-like	Complete
Alchemy ICE	Noughts and crosses with randomized "symbols" of five different types.	2	6	5	5	Stacking, Capture, Tile placement	Complete
Alien City	Icehouse/piecepack hybrid game of city building		2	3 or more	5	Tile laying, Complex scoring, City building	Complete
Autumn Ash	A strategic game of color change.		2	10	2	Stacking, Movement	Complete
Ballistic Wars	A pure strategy game of knocking down enemy walls	3	6	4	5	Unknown	Playtesting
Barsoomian Jetan	Fantasy chess on Barsoom (Mars)		2	4	4	Chess, Angular movement	Complete
Battle Royal	A Chesslike game for a TreeHouse set	2	4	1 per player	1	Unknown	Unknown
Binary Homeworlds	A 2-player variant of the standard Homeworlds game		2	4	3	Color powers, Resource management	Complete
Chaos Checkers	A twist on checkers where the pieces constantly gain new abilities		2	10	5	Turn-based, Strategic placement	Unknown
Chicken Run	A whimsical chicken roundup with overly enthusiastic spectators		2	10	1	Equipment/Chessboard, Equipment/Dice	Complete
Cliff Mining	Use your deduction skills to work out what's in the cliff	3	5	1 per player + 1	2	Hidden Information, Deduction	Playtesting
Continuum	Use pyramids and a poker deck to get your trees to exchange places		2	2	1	Unknown	Playtesting
Crystal City Catan	Colonial building in the style of The Settlers of Catan card game		2	6	5	Resource Management	Complete
Crystal Wars	Wargame played on Martian Coasters	2	4	5	5	Board	Playtesting
Dectana	Territory game like Zarcana/Gnostica, but using the Decktet	2	5	1 per player	3	Territory Control, Hand Management	Complete
Elementalist	Use the elements at your disposal and wage epic war against an opponent!		2	5	3	Direct conflict	Initial design
Freimaurerei	Conduct lodge-based conspiracies during the European Enlightenment		2	10	5	Hidden goals, Resource management	Complete
Gala	A traditional chess-like game from northern Europe a.k.a. Farmer's Chess.	2	4	4	4	Capture	Complete
Gnostica	Gnostica, an updated version of Zarcana, involves capturing territory on an evolving board made up of Tarot cards.	2	6	1 per player	5	Modular board, Card game	Complete
Gorean Kaissa	Fantasy chess on the planet Gor		2	6	5	Chess	Complete
Hextris	An abstract connection game of moving, swapping, and removing	2	3	1 per player	5	Placement, Movement	Unknown
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	1 per player	2	Playing card game board	Playtesting
Homeworlds	A strategy game of starships, transformation, and negotiation	2	6	4	5	Unknown	Complete
Homeworlds (German)	Ein Strategiespiel um epische Weltraumschlachten	2	6	5	4	Unknown	Complete
Homeworlds Settlers	Players vie for resources on a conquered Homeworld.		2	4	3	Placement, Color powers, Turn-based, Movement, Resource management, Capture	Complete
Ice Age	Mastodons vs the Hunters		2	1	5	Unknown	Unknown
Ice Draughts	Advanced variant of Draughts	2	4	1 per player	3	Unknown	Playtesting
Ice Miners	A 2-player game of underground survival inspired by Settlers of Catan.		2	5	5	Resource management, Building	Initial design
IceDungeons	Quest through the world with your guide, and lots of paper				5	Unknown	Unknown
Icecaster	A two-fisted spell-casting battle for 2 or more players.	2	10	5	1 per player	Dexterity, Turnless	Initial design
Igloo	A turn-based version of Icehouse, with only one color worth points by the end.		2	4	5	Unknown	Complete
Isoku	Like Sudoku, but with pyramids.	1	4	9	3	Placement	Initial design
Krump	A chess-like game where your movement options increase as the game progresses.		2	2	5	Unknown	Complete
Leech	Capture your opponents' pieces and their score	2	4	5	2	Unknown	Initial design
Litróf	A chess variation with Icehouse pyramids		2	6	5	Unknown	Complete
Logistics	A game of Logistics in progress		2	5	4	Capture, Perfect information	Playtesting
Malice	An abstract strategy game of piece movement, capture and teleportation.		2	2	3	Capture, Perfect information	Playtesting
Mandala	A deceptively simple game of set collection	2	5	5	5	Set collection, Perfect information	Complete
Martian BattleSpires	Martian BattleSpires is a game of domination by advantage.		2	5	5	Stacking, Capturing	Playtesting
Martian Chess	Colorless simplified chess nevertheless has subtle strategy	2	4	1 per player	3	Colorless, Positional	Complete
Martian Shogi	Chess/shogi variant with pyramids.		2	4	5	Capture, Promotion	Complete
Martian Sparks	A Magical Game of Pure Strategy for Two Players based on Spark by Envelope Games			2	5	Unknown	Unknown
MartianWhist	Resolving a trick in Martian Whist		2	5	2	Perfect information, Trick-taking	Playtesting
Nickel	Use strategy to form a line or L shape on a colorful, randomly-generated board		2	5	2, 5 preferably	Placement, Perfect information, Random setup	Complete
Outgrow	Each player represents a fungal colony, trying to outgrow the other colonies in the limited space available.		2	4	5	Territorial acquisition	Initial design
Override	A two-player game where pieces are individually owned but mutually controlled	2	2	2	5	Placement, Perfect information	Complete
Peaceful Homeworlds	Peaceful Homeworlds centers on gathering crystals rather than invasion.		2	4	3	Color powers, Resource management	Unknown
Pylon	A 2-player abstract strategy game of placement and stacking.		2	2	5	Unknown	Complete
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	1 per player	5	Stacking, Placement	Unknown
Rosicrucian Chess	occult chess variant a.k.a. Enochian Chess	2	4	5	4	Divination, Chess	Complete
Sprawl	Competitive city building	3	8	1 per player	5	Building, Attacking	Complete
Stack Control	Capture and eliminate enemy pyramids so that you control the most stacks.	2	5	5	5	Unknown	Complete
Stacktors!	A role-playing game system using pyramids.	2	100	12	10	Tactics, Comparison	Playtesting
Stacktrices	A game of fighting enacted within a digital matrix		2	5	4	Unknown	Complete
Super Death Ray	Use fighter ships, thievery, super death rays, and a clone army to destroy your opponent's inter-planetary empire.	2	3	5	5	Freeform board, Color powers	Playtesting
Tactonix	A geological Combination Game	2	4	1 per player + 1	2	Unknown	Complete
Tink	A four-in-a-row game with a twist	2	4	1 per player	5	Placement, Four-in-a-row	Unknown
Undercut	In Undercut, players try to bid low to get pieces with the lowest value.	3	5	5	5	Unknown	Complete
Whack Chess	Chess with stacking pyramids and a dynamic board		2	4	5	Chess, Dynamic board	Unknown
Wormholes	A mind-warping space battle for 2 or more players.	2	10	1 per player	1	Move & Fire, Equipment/Dice	Unknown