Browse games/Low strategy depth
This is a list of games with little strategy.
Name | Description | Min Players | Max Players | Number of colors | Trios per color | Game Mechanics | Status |
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Ascendancy | A turn-based game of tower building. | 2 | 5 | 1 per player | 5 | Unknown | Playtesting |
Atom Smasher | A game of dexterity inspired by billiards, carrom, and marbles | 2 | 100 | 1 | 1 | Dexterity, Turn-based | Complete |
Babylone | A simple and fast brain teaser for 2 players | 2 | 4 | 3 | Stacking | Complete | |
Bag of Ice | A simple push-your-luck game for many different player counts | 2 | 12 | 5 | 2 | Push-your-luck | Unknown |
Behind Enemy Lines | Multiplayer war based game | 2 | 4 | 1 per player | 2 | Roll and move | Initial design |
Block ur Friends aka BurF | Inspired by the game Saikoro where board options are removed, in this one it fills | 2 | 4 | 4 | 4 | Blocking, Dice Rolling | Nearly Complete |
Candy Capture | Earn the most points once all candy pieces are captured | 2 | 5 | 1 | Unknown | Initial design | |
Capstone | In Capstone, players try to build stacks that match their secret goal stacks. | 2 | 4 | 5 | Stacking, Hidden information | Complete | |
CarboniteDice | A solo variant of IceDice | 1 | 5 | 2 | Push your luck, Set building | Playtesting | |
Cascades | A two-player mountaineering race. | 2 | 3 | 2 | Movement, Cards | Playtesting | |
Cathouse | Cathouse, a game for cats. | 1 | 1 | 5 | Unknown | Complete | |
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 | 1 | 5 | Dexterity, Centrificeing | Playtesting |
The Closest Ghost | A simple game played with pieces of candy | 2 | 3 | 3 | Unknown | Complete | |
Cold Spell | Spell the most valuable words with your tiles | 2 | 4 | 1 | 5 | Collect and spell words | Complete |
Colorful Clues | A deduction game where players try to guess the missing colors | 2 | 4 | 10 | 1 | Stacking, Guessing | Complete |
Coup | Take over a small country | 3 | 5 | 1 | 5 | Unknown | Initial design |
CrackeD Ice | Don't tip the ice floe! | 3 | 5 | 1 per player | 5 | Dexterity, Balance | Complete |
Crosswalk | 2 | 5 | 1 | Stacking, Blocking | Complete | ||
Crystal Caverns | RPG played on a playing card dungeon map | 1 | 5 | 5 | 5 | Board | Unknown |
Deception | In Deception, players try to get their secret pyramid to the other end of the board while avoiding capture. | 2 | 6 | 5 | Unknown | Initial design | |
Depict | Can you get your friends to guess the secret word using only pyramids? | 2 | 10 | 3 | 5 | Unknown | Initial design |
Der Marsigelwettkampf | A prickly pyramid game | 2 | 13 | 1 per player | 1 | Stacking, Freeform board | Complete |
Diamond Mine | Collect Diamonds from hidden Veins | 2 | 4 | 6 (2 must be opaque) | 5 | Unknown | Complete |
Dog Eat Dog | An abstract game of strategy and luck for 2 or more players | 2 | 8 | 4 | 5 | Unknown | Unknown |
Drip | A stacking game using Icehouse pieces | 2 | 1 | 5 | Unknown | Complete | |
Fire-Ice-Slime | A very fast and simple, 2-player, 1 Treehouse game, similar to Rock-Scissors-Paper. | 2 | 5 | 1 | Color Powers | Complete | |
Forts | A game of building and tearing down. | 2 | 4 | 1 per player | 5 | Unknown | Complete |
Gemini | A quick game of luck and strategy | 2 | 4-6 | 5 | Unknown | Playtesting | |
Giants and Dwarves | Single Stash Game being translated into Treehouse | 2 | 3 | 1 | 5 | Unknown | Unknown |
Give or Take | 2 | 10 | 1 | 1 per player (3 minimum) | Set collection, Trading | Complete | |
Green Hijinks | A luck-free variant of Pink Hijinks | 2 | 1 | 3 | Pattern formation | Complete | |
Hexano | A variant of Volcano played on a 3x3 hexagonal board instead of a 5x5 square one | 2 | 5 | 5 | Eruption | Playtesting | |
Hivemind | A real-time cooperative game with no communication | 2 | 4 | 9 | 1 | Cooperative, Real-time, Communication limits | Complete |
How Pretty Is That? | Players take turns making trees and placing them on a mega-volcano board | 1 | 99 | 6+ | 5 | Unknown | Unknown |
Ice Boule | Play the dexterity game Boule with your Icehouse pieces, using the Centrifice-mechanic. | 1 | 10 | 1 per player + 1 | 5 | Unknown | Playtesting |
Ice Fishing | 2 | 4 | 4 | 5 | Unknown | Complete | |
Ice House Bowling | A game using IceHouse pieces for bowling. | 2 | 100 | 4 | 1 | Unknown | Initial design |
Ice Lady | A variant of Turkish checkers, aka Dama, using Icehouse pieces. | 2 | 2 | 4 | Unknown | Unknown | |
Ice Points | An entirely luck driven card battle over a bank of pyramid points. | 5 | 8 | 1 per player | 5 | Unknown | Initial design |
Ice Stackers | A dexterous stacking race game. | 2 | 6 | 5 | 1 per player | Unknown | Complete |
Ice-Turn | Pyramid version of Q-Turn. | 2 | 4 | 5 | 1 | Stacking, Race | Complete |
IceCream | A two player game that requires no playing surface. | 2 | 3 | 4 | Unknown | Unknown | |
IceDam | This is a multiplayer variant of IceSickle. | 2 | 4 | 1 per player | 5 | IceSickle | Complete |
IceDice | Players roll dice to select pieces, but roll the same color twice and lose everything you gained this turn! | 2 | 4 | 5 | 1 per player | Set collection, Push your luck | Complete |
IceGolf | Icehouse Golf, using a stash tube as the club | 1 | 100 | 1 per player or fewer | 1+ | Dexterity | Complete |
IceToids | Explore a board made of print-and-play cards. | 2 | 4 | 1 per player | 3 | Area control | Complete |
Icehouse Null Game | The Game of Playing with Pyramids | 1 | 100 | 0 | 0 | Unknown | Unknown |
Infobox | Help out the wiki by adding infoboxes | 2, 1 | 100 | 1 per player, 0 | 5 | MediaWiki, Keyboard | Unknown |
Jewellers | Our jewelry has always been taken care of by masters from Florence, Italy, the famous Piccolo-Espresso family. | 2 | 8 | 5 or 6 | 1 | Unknown | Complete |
Jinxx | 2 | 4 | 1 per player | 3 | Unknown | Complete | |
Kaeru | Jumping from waterlily to waterlily, your frogs try to eat the prey they like the most | 2 | 2 | 1 | Piece movement, Collection | Complete | |
King of the Sinking Iceberg | Jump and capture small caps on a shrinking board | 2 | 2 | 5 | Unknown | Initial design | |
Landing Zone | Crash land your ship to get the diamonds | 2 | 5 | 1 per player | 2 | Dexterity | Complete |
Latent Binaries | Abide by the rules of binaries... Rely on deductive reasoning and luck to create weaknesses in your opponent's defenses in order to have a clear shot at taking control of their base. | 2 | 10 | 5 | Movement | Unknown | |
Looney Ludo | Navigate an ever-changing maze and collect the right pieces to win | 2 | 6 | 1 per player | 1 | Stacking, Dynamic board | Complete |
Martian Backgammon | A Martian take on Backgammon | 2 | 2 | 5 | Unknown | Complete | |
Martian Coasters | The Beverage-Coaster Treehouse Board Game | 2 | 6 | 1 per player | 1 | Stacking, Dynamic board | Complete |
Martian Frisby | A race game on a narrow board where players try to block each other and get the roll that will propel their pieces into the required nested configuration. | 2 | 2 | 2 | Unknown | Complete | |
Martian Pachinko | A Martian pachinko game for two | 2 | 5 | 5 | Unknown | Initial design | |
Martian Push | 2House Game being translated into Treehouse | 2 | 2 | 5 | Unknown | Initial design | |
Martianopolis 500 | Zip around the track to the finish. | 2 | 4 | 1 per player | 1 | Unknown | Playtesting |
Mega Hexano | A variant of Volcano played with 9 stashes on a hexagonal board | 2 | 4 | 9 | 5 | Unknown | Playtesting |
Middleman | Maneuver around a cramped board to reunite your pieces | 2 | 2 | 5 | Movement, N/A | Complete | |
Moon Shot | A game of dexterous strategy for any number of players. | 1 | 100 | 1 | 1 | Dexterity, Miniatures | Complete |
Nomids | A fast and very easy game with a simple goal: get rid of all your pyramids first. First player with no 'mids wins! | 2 | 10 | 10 | 1 | Unknown | Complete |
Nothing Beats a Large | A simple and quick single Treehouse set game with goals | 2 | 5 | 5 | 1 | Hidden goals, Rock-Paper-Scissors | Complete |
PewPewDie | A player wields a juggernaut! | 2 | 0 | 0 | Rock-Paper-Scissors, Elimination | Complete | |
Pink Hijinks | A tiny game of Pyramids | 2 | 1 | 3 | Pattern formation, Dice rolling | Complete | |
Polymer Chains | Create Big Molecules at Home | 2 | 10 | 1 per player + 1 | 5 | Unknown | Initial design |
Power Tower | Build high towers by taking over pieces from other towers. | 2 | 4 | 1 per player | 5 | Unknown | Unknown |
Pumpkin | A "first one out of the maze" Halloween game | 2 | 4 | 1 | 5 | Unknown | Initial design |
Pushing Race | A race where you’ll need the roll of an Icehouse die to win, but the same roll could force you to help an opponent | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | Piece movement, Dice roll | Initial design |
Pyramid Punch | A quick game of pyramid combat. | 2 | 5 | 1 per player | 1 | Unknown | Unknown |
Pyramideto | Match your secret goal pattern. | 2 | 4 | 6 | 1 | Rearrange the pyramids | Unknown |
Pyramids in my pocket | A variation on Drip, in which a player tries to guess which pyramids the other has hidden in his pocket. | 2 | 3 | 2 | Stacking | Complete | |
Pyrinoes | Dominoes, with extra pyramids | 2 | 5 | 3 | Placement | Complete | |
Quintazone-Chaser | Further play to follow on a game of Quintazone | 2 | 5 | 1 per player | 5 (fewer with more players) | Race, Capture | Complete |
Rabbit, Fox, Bear | Uncle Remus on Mars | 1 | 4 | 1 | 5 | Martian Coasters as brier patch | Unknown |
Robot Battle Arena | Robot battles. In an arena. OF DEATH. | 2 | 5 | 5 | 1 | Stacking, Direct conflict | Complete |
Rotationary | rotate pieces in place | 1 | 1 | 5 | Unknown | Unknown | |
Sandbox | A fast-paced, multiplayer game with a 'Treasure Hunter' theme that is played on a checker board. | 3 | 100 | 4 | 2 | Stacking, Capture | Unknown |
Skyscrapers | A free-form action and dexterity game for lively party fun. | 2 | 12 | 1+ | 1+ | Stacking, Dexterity | Initial design |
Snowblind | How do you win a game if you have more control over your opponents’ pieces than your own? | 4 | 4 | 5 | Unknown | Complete | |
Space Monkeys | Space monkeys have come to Earth and are trying to get home! | 2 | 2 | 1 per player | 5 | Unknown | Unknown |
Spectra | A game of color theory | 2 | 6 | 8 | 5 | Unknown | Unknown |
Spicklehead | A game of self-inflicted bodily harm...with Icehouse pieces | 1 | 100 | 1+ | 5 | Unknown | Unknown |
T-Minus | It's Not Rocket Science. | 2 | 6 | 1 per player | 3 | Unknown | Playtesting |
The Unnamed Archaeologist | A game of digging up bones | 2 | 5 | 6 | 5 | Unknown | Complete |
Tic Tac Doh! | Slightly twisted variant of Tic-Tac-Toe | 2 | 1 | 5 | Unknown | Complete | |
Timelock | Someone's gone and broken the TimeLine again. | 1 | 2 | 10 | 1 | Stacking | Complete |
Titanice | Be the first to steer your transatlantic liner into an iceberg! | 2 | 4 | 1 | 5 | Unknown | Initial design |
Topple | Be the last with pieces still standing | 3 | 5 | 5 | 2 | Elimination | Initial design |
Tower Defense | Defend your headquarters | 2 | 5 | 1 | Treehouse | Unknown | |
Trap-Towers | A tiny game of capture for two. | 2 | 2 | 1 | Capturing | Nearly Complete | |
Treehouse Snakes and Ladders | Snakes & Ladders with pyramids, real decisions, and lots of player interaction. | 2 | 5 | 5 | 1 | Stacking, Roll and move | Playtesting |
Triforce | In Triforce, players combat for control over a portion of a triangular playing field. | 3 | 6 | 1 per player + 3 | 5 | Unknown | Initial design |
Trip Away | Be the first player with no pieces in front of you | 2 | 4 | 4 | 1 | Colorless | Complete |
Twin Win | A simple and quick pattern matching game with changing goals. | 2 | 3 | 5 | 1 | Stacking, Hidden goals | Complete |
Verticality | Build the tallest tower! | 1 | 5 | 10 | 3 | Dexterity, Tower building | Complete |
Vertigo | A solitaire version of Volcano or Mega-Volcano where the goal is to build single color towers | 1 | 6 or 9 | 5 | Unknown | Initial design | |
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