Browse games/Medium playing time
This is a list of medium length games that, ideally, take 10 - 30 minutes (45 min tops) to play.
Name | Description | Min Players | Max Players | Number of colors | Trios per color | Game Mechanics | Status |
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3-High | Cooperatively assemble the five trees without running out of cards. | 1 | 4 | 5 | 1 | Cooperative | Complete |
3stica | What if Gnostica and Risk had a baby? | 2 | 5 | 1 per player | 3 | Modular board, Card game, FATE dice | Playtesting |
Abiegnus | Rosicrucian Volcano | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | Eruption, Divination | Complete |
Accelerator | Scientists compete to get the most particles out of an accelerator | 2 | 4 | 2 | 2 | Rotation, Free pyramid choice | Initial design |
Advanced Colonization | A game of space combat and expansion. | 2 | 5 | 2 | Unknown | Complete | |
Albiorix | A chess-like game without captures | 2 | 2 | 5 | Chess-like | Complete | |
Alien City (German) | Icehouse Piecepack Hybrid. Städtebau auf einem weit entfernten Planeten für zwei Spieler | 2 | 3 | 5 | Tile laying, Complex scoring | Complete | |
Amoeba | A science themed game with an ever-increasing board size. | 2 | 6 | 1 per player | 5 | Placement | Complete |
Antshouse | Ants running the gauntlet over a pavement while mean kids tries to splat them. | 2 | 4 | 1 per player | 5 | Unknown | Complete |
Aquarius Rising | Connect your elements to the higher planes | 2 | 5 | 5 | 4 | Placement, Hidden goals | Complete |
Arena | Roll a D20 to knock down as many pyramids as possible | 2 | 4 | 4 | 5 | Unknown | Complete |
Armada | In Armada, a fleet of fast, maneuverable ships does battle with a fleet of slow, powerful ships. | 2 | 1 | 5 | Measured movement | Complete | |
Around & Around | Treehouse game where players race to the Safe House | 2 | 4 | 5 | 1 | Unknown | Unknown |
Atom Smasher | A game of dexterity inspired by billiards, carrom, and marbles | 2 | 100 | 1 | 1 | Dexterity, Turn-based | Complete |
Attack of the Mids | A coop game similar to Flash Point: Fire Rescue | 1 | 3 | 5 | 3 | Unknown | Complete |
Autumn Ash | A strategic game of color change. | 2 | 10 | 2 | Stacking, Movement | Complete | |
Bag of Ice | A simple push-your-luck game for many different player counts | 2 | 12 | 5 | 2 | Push-your-luck | Unknown |
Ballistic Wars | A pure strategy game of knocking down enemy walls | 3 | 6 | 4 | 5 | Unknown | Playtesting |
Battle Royal | A Chesslike game for a TreeHouse set | 2 | 4 | 1 per player | 1 | Unknown | Unknown |
Battle Zone | 2 | 5 | 3 | Unknown | Complete | ||
Battle of the Body Snatchers | Capture more villagers and enemy aliens than your opponent. | 2 | 4 | 5 | Capturing | Complete | |
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 |
Boundary | Transfer pyramids to the other world. | 2 | 4 | 1 | Race, Blocking | Complete | |
Branches & Twigs & Thorns (Polish) | Gra strategiczna, gracze zapełniają plansze swoimi piramidami. | 2 | 4 | 1 per player | 5 | Zapełnianie planszy, Dokładanie piramidek | Complete |
Builders of R'lyeh | Constructing the drowned city of Cthulhu | 1 | 5 | 1 per player + 1 | 5 | Stacking, Dexterity | Complete |
Buyer's Market | 2 | 4 | 1 per player + 5 | 3 to 4 | Building, Bidding | 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 | |
Capture the Card | Use Icehouse pieces and strategy to capture a royal flush. | 2 | 2 | 4 | Strategic movement | Unknown | |
Cardinal Connections | In Cardinal Connections, players try to make more pyramids point towards themselves than toward the other players. | 2 | 4 | 1 | 5 | Board | Complete |
Carrots and Broccoli | A abstract game about planning a garden | 2 | 4 | 5 | 1 per player | Timer, IceDice | Complete |
Cascades | A two-player mountaineering race. | 2 | 3 | 2 | Movement, Cards | Playtesting | |
Chaos | Collect all 10 colors | 2 | 5 | 10 | 5 | Unknown | Playtesting |
Chicken Run | A whimsical chicken roundup with overly enthusiastic spectators | 2 | 10 | 1 | Equipment/Chessboard, Equipment/Dice | Complete | |
Chivalry | Be the first player to jump two queens off the opposing side of the board. | 2 | 2 | 5 | Unknown | Complete | |
Circuit Connection | A connection game of position where you score points for groups on a board I made | 2 | 3 | 5 | Connection, Positional play | Initial design | |
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 |
Colorful Clues | A deduction game where players try to guess the missing colors | 2 | 4 | 10 | 1 | Stacking, Guessing | Complete |
Continuum | Use pyramids and a poker deck to get your trees to exchange places | 2 | 2 | 1 | Unknown | Playtesting | |
Cover Up | Cover up your opponent's options and get 4-in-a-row | 2 | 2 | 5 | Unknown | Complete | |
CoverFire | A war-game with programmed movement | 2 | 4 | 1 | Unknown | Initial design | |
CrackeD ICE (Polish) | Gra zręcznościowa, stąpając po lodzie należy uważać, by się nie załamał. | 2 | 5 | 1 na gracza | 5 | Dokładanie piramidek, Gra zręcznościowa | Complete |
CrackeD Ice | Don't tip the ice floe! | 3 | 5 | 1 per player | 5 | Dexterity, Balance | Complete |
The Crossing | Chinese Checkers variant. Be the first to get your pieces to the opposite corner. | 2 | 4 | 2 | 3 | Move, Jump | Complete |
Dash | Be the first to finish. | 2 | 5 | 5 | 1 | Unknown | Initial design |
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 | |
DogFight | A war-game with programmed movement | 2 | 5 | 1 | Unknown | Initial design | |
Dragon Gardens | Cultists work to build a garden worthy of dragon worship and performing rituals | 2 | 4 | 1 per player | 1 | Unknown | Unknown |
Dragonflock | Dragons intimidate each other and lay waste to hapless towns | 2 | 2 | 3 | Stacking, Capture | Unknown | |
Elemental Towers | A solitaire game played with an Aquarius deck | 1 | 5 | 3 | Unknown | Complete | |
Elementalist | Use the elements at your disposal and wage epic war against an opponent! | 2 | 5 | 3 | Direct conflict | Initial design | |
Enantiomerfolk | Capture your opponent's pieces with their own pieces | 2 | 3 | 6 | Capturing | Complete | |
European War | A variation on Andy Looney's World War 5. | 2 | 4 | 5 | 3 | Unknown | Complete |
Evacuate | Get your Stacktor clans out of burning nightclubs before your rival/s manage/s to do the same. | 2 | 4 | 4 | 5, 4 for a 2-player game | Stacking, Placement | Playtesting |
Fleet | A space fleet game | 2 | 5 | 5 | 1 - 2 | Unknown | Playtesting |
Focus | A game that combines pyramids with Magic: The Gathering cards | 2 | 5 | 5 | Unknown | Complete | |
Foxtrot | An abstract game of alignment | 2 | 3 | 5 | 3 | Unknown | Playtesting |
Freeze Tag | Pyramids race to the other side, trying not to get frozen along the way. | 2 | 4 | 1 per player | 2 | Volcano Board, Equipment/Dice | Complete |
Game of Princes | The two sons of the king play a racing game to one another’s carpets with help of their servitors | 2 | 5 | 5 | Piece movement | Initial design | |
Geomancy | The Game of Casting and Recasting | 2 | 6 | 1 per player | 5 | Unknown | Unknown |
Gnaqush | Hop to the other end of the board and promote your pieces | 2 | 4 | 4 | 5 | Unknown | Complete |
Hailstorm | a very random betting game | 2 | 10 | 4+ | 5 | Dexterity | Complete |
Hexano | A variant of Volcano played on a 3x3 hexagonal board instead of a 5x5 square one | 2 | 5 | 5 | Eruption | Playtesting | |
Hextris | An abstract connection game of moving, swapping, and removing | 2 | 3 | 1 per player | 5 | Placement, Movement | Unknown |
Homeworlds Settlers | Players vie for resources on a conquered Homeworld. | 2 | 4 | 3 | Placement, Color powers, Turn-based, Movement, Resource management, Capture | Complete | |
Hostages | Be the first player to rescue all 5 of your hostages by returning them to your base. | 2 | 2 | 5 | Unknown | Complete | |
How Pretty Is That? | Players take turns making trees and placing them on a mega-volcano board | 1 | 99 | 6+ | 5 | Unknown | Unknown |
I Have Color | A color based children's word game. | 2 | 12 | 5 | 1 or 2 | Abstract, Draw | Complete |
Ice Fishing | 2 | 4 | 4 | 5 | Unknown | Complete | |
Ice Miners | A 2-player game of underground survival inspired by Settlers of Catan. | 2 | 5 | 5 | Resource management, Building | Initial design | |
Ice Stalks | Draw magic rocks to grow colored stalks | 2 | 4 | 7 | 5 | Unknown | Nearly Complete |
Ice-Turn | Pyramid version of Q-Turn. | 2 | 4 | 5 | 1 | Stacking, Race | Complete |
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 |
IceHanoi | A solo game of trying to turn nests into trees | 1 | 1 | 5 | Unknown | Initial design | |
Icecaster | A two-fisted spell-casting battle for 2 or more players. | 2 | 10 | 5 | 1 per player | Dexterity, Turnless | Initial design |
Iceland Volcano | Lava flows for points as the volcano erupts! | 1 | 4 | 5 | 5 | Game board | Complete |
Igloo | A turn-based version of Icehouse, with only one color worth points by the end. | 2 | 4 | 5 | Unknown | Complete | |
Ikkozendo | A Zendo variant with a limited number of pyramids and players | 2 | 100 | 5 | 1 | Turn-based, Inductive logic | Complete |
Initiative | An abstract fencing game of perfect information. | 2 | 5 | 2 | Perfect information, Piece placement | Playtesting | |
Intersect | placement and simultaneous capture | 2 | 2 | 5 | Placement, Simultaneous action | Complete | |
Iriri | Build a crossword from a shrinking alien dictionary! | 2 | 2 | 5 | Pattern matching | Complete | |
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 |
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 o' the Castle | A strategy game where players try to invade one another's castles | 2 | 2 | 4 | Unknown | Playtesting | |
King of the Sinking Iceberg | Jump and capture small caps on a shrinking board | 2 | 2 | 5 | Unknown | Initial design | |
Kotra | A dice strategy game similar to Backgammon, played on a chessboard. | 2 | 4 | 2 | 5 | Movement | Complete |
Krump | A chess-like game where your movement options increase as the game progresses. | 2 | 2 | 5 | Unknown | Complete | |
La Columna de Trajano | An abstract strategy board game of elimination for Icehouse | 2 | 5 | 3 | Movement, Elimination | Unknown | |
La Linterna de Lisicrates | An abstract strategy game of stacking | 2 | 5 | 3 | Unknown | Playtesting | |
Landrush | Compete to own the land worth the greatest value. | 2 | 5 | 1 per player | 5 | Unknown | Unknown |
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 | |
Logger | A lumberjack-themed game for 2-4 players | 2 | 4 | 4 to 7 | 3 to 5 | Board | Complete |
Logistics | A game of Logistics in progress | 2 | 5 | 4 | Capture, Perfect information | Playtesting | |
Looney Ludo | Navigate an ever-changing maze and collect the right pieces to win | 2 | 6 | 1 per player | 1 | Stacking, Dynamic board | Complete |
Lunar Invaders | Interlunar teleportation death struggle! | 2 | 2 | 3 | Unknown | Complete | |
Malice | An abstract strategy game of piece movement, capture and teleportation. | 2 | 2 | 3 | Capture, Perfect information | Playtesting | |
Martian Boggle | Move pyramids around a letter grid to spell words | 2 | 2 | 5 | Unknown | Complete | |
Martian Chaturaji | A four-player partnership variant of Martian Chaturanga. | 2 | 4 | 4 | 5 | Unknown | Complete |
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