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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
5
Tile laying
,
Complex scoring
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
9
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
Unknown
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
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
Image coming soon...
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
4
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
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