Games in Design Stage Playtesting
There are 74 games in the Playtesting stage.
| Name | Description | Min Players | Max Players | Status | Year Released |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EOF | Players use icehouse pieces to make patterns in a data stream. | 2 | 4 | Playtesting | 2000 |
| Aeb | Grow your forces and destroy the enemy. | 2 | 4 | Playtesting | 2001 |
| Alheimur | An Icehouse space exploration game that uses an Aquarius deck. | 2 | 8 | Playtesting | 2001 |
| Bottoms Up | A stacking game with color powers for 4 to 6 players | 4 | 6 | Playtesting | 2001 |
| Gemini | A quick game of luck and strategy | 2 | Playtesting | 2001 | |
| Martian Checkers | Pieces jump and immediately capture | 2 | Playtesting | 2001 | |
| Terrafex | Players use icehouse pieces to grow forests, build mountains, start fires and melt glaciers. | 2 | Playtesting | 2001 | |
| Nightmare Pachisi | A multitrack linear wargame | 2 | 4 | Playtesting | 2002 |
| Icehouse Plant Game | Grow your pieces toward the sun | 3 | 4 | Playtesting | 2004 |
| King o' the Castle | A strategy game where players try to invade one another's castles | 2 | Playtesting | 2004 | |
| Limn | A Balderdash-style bluffing game | 4 | 10 | Playtesting | 2004 |
| Hexano | A variant of Volcano played on a 3x3 hexagonal board instead of a 5x5 square one | 2 | Playtesting | 2005 | |
| Ice Soo Sorry | Based on the board game "Sorry" | 2 | 4 | Playtesting | 2005 |
| Mega Hexano | A variant of Volcano played with 9 stashes on a hexagonal board | 2 | 4 | Playtesting | 2005 |
| Spike | A strategy game of moves and counter-moves with maze-like aspects | 2 | Playtesting | 2005 | |
| Traction | Players walk their pyramids in a race to the finish line, and stop their opponents from getting there first! | 2 | 4 | Playtesting | 2005 |
| 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 | Playtesting | 2006 |
| Foxtrot | An abstract game of alignment | 2 | 3 | Playtesting | 2006 |
| La Linterna de Lisicrates | An abstract strategy game of stacking | 2 | Playtesting | 2006 | |
| Ratones Colorados | A game of mice, cats, and traps | 3 | 4 | Playtesting | 2006 |
| Torres de Asedio | Open a gap in enemy walls to take your army across the board | 2 | 4 | Playtesting | 2006 |
| Ballistic Wars | A pure strategy game of knocking down enemy walls | 3 | 6 | Playtesting | 2007 |
| Catapults | In Catapults, each player builds a castle and then tries to tear down the castles of the other players. | 1 | 10 | Playtesting | 2007 |
| Chaos | Collect all 10 colors | 2 | 5 | Playtesting | 2007 |
| Coaster Chess | Martian Chess meets Martian Coasters | 2 | 4 | Playtesting | 2007 |
| Coastercano | Mega Volcano that uses Martian Coasters and Treehouse Dice | 2 | 4 | Playtesting | 2007 |
| 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 | Playtesting | 2007 |
| Ice Boule | Play the dexterity game Boule with your Icehouse pieces, using the Centrifice-mechanic. | 1 | 10 | Playtesting | 2007 |
| Kumbha | Aquarius for IceHouse | 2 | 5 | Playtesting | 2007 |
| Ley Lines of Mars | Place pyramids on the surface of Mars to claim mystic dominance | 2 | Playtesting | 2007 | |
| Martian Shuffleboard | A game of dexterous strategy for 2 to 10 players. | 2 | 10 | Playtesting | 2007 |
| Stacktors! | A role-playing game system using pyramids. | 2 | 100 | Playtesting | 2007 |
| X Spectrum | Combine and Conquer | 2 | Playtesting | 2007 | |
| Zombie Coasters | Stop the Zombie plague before it gets out of hand! | 1 | 3 | Playtesting | 2007 |
| Conquest of Mars | abstract wargame using pyramids, cards, and dice | 2 | 4 | Playtesting | 2008 |
| Martian BattleSpires | Martian BattleSpires is a game of domination by advantage. | 2 | Playtesting | 2008 | |
| Martian Flood | Players score points by building ships & towers that survive the floods | 3 | 4 | Playtesting | 2008 |
| Penguin Marathon | An epic race on the slippery Martian slopes | 2 | 5 | Playtesting | 2008 |
| T-Minus | It's Not Rocket Science. | 2 | 6 | Playtesting | 2008 |
| Continuum | Use pyramids and a poker deck to get your trees to exchange places | 2 | Playtesting | 2009 | |
| Fleet | A space fleet game | 2 | 5 | Playtesting | 2009 |
| Ice Draughts | Advanced variant of Draughts | 2 | 4 | Playtesting | 2009 |
| Icehouse Dash | Be the first to complete all five trees | 1 | 4 | Playtesting | 2009 |
| One Square at a Time to the Capture | Advance to capture the giant. | 2 | 4 | Playtesting | 2009 |
| Treehouse Snakes and Ladders | Snakes & Ladders with pyramids, real decisions, and lots of player interaction. | 2 | 5 | Playtesting | 2009 |
| Tri-Prism Face Off | A game of luck and some strategy in which each player races to get their Icehouse pieces to the finish line first | 2 | 5 | Playtesting | 2009 |
| Ziggurat | A push-and-shove race around and up the sides of a pyramid. | 2 | 4 | Playtesting | 2009 |
| Ascendancy | A turn-based game of tower building. | 2 | 5 | Playtesting | 2010 |
| Crystal Traders | Trade crystals with people from other worlds | 3 | 6 | Playtesting | 2010 |
| Chain Reaction | Fire 'particles' at 'atoms' and direct the chain reaction to let you capture pieces | 2 | 6 | Playtesting | 2011 |
| Crystal Wars | Wargame played on Martian Coasters | 2 | 4 | Playtesting | 2011 |
| IceCubed | A game utilizing IceDice components and a Mega-Volcano board: Players are randomly given opportunities for movement, attack, and supply to the board while also presented the opportunity to seek revenge and wreak havoc on their opponents. | 2 | 4 | Playtesting | 2011 |
| Nimbus | A multiplayer combinatorial game with an icy association to the game Nim. | 2 | 10 | Playtesting | 2011 |
| Sphinx's Paw | Escape from monsters beneath the Great Pyramid of Giza | 2 | 4 | Playtesting | 2011 |
| Treasure Slide | Slide on the ice while collecting treasure. | 2 | Playtesting | 2011 | |
| Barrakesh Express | Control surface transport on Mars | 2 | 4 | Playtesting | 2012 |
| Cascades | A two-player mountaineering race. | 2 | Playtesting | 2012 | |
| Evacuate | Get your Stacktor clans out of burning nightclubs before your rival/s manage/s to do the same. | 2 | 4 | Playtesting | 2012 |
| GravityPlane | A 2-8 player variant on Martian Coasters | 2 | 8 | Playtesting | 2012 |
| Houses of Thoth | Erecting Pyramids on Tarot cards, and vice versa | 2 | 5 | Playtesting | 2012 |
| Phalanstery | Organize a harmonious group within the utopian phalanx | 1 | 2 | Playtesting | 2013 |
| Temple of Masks | A game about the Mayans | 2 | 4 | Playtesting | 2013 |
| CarboniteDice | A solo variant of IceDice | 1 | Playtesting | 2014 | |
| Initiative | An abstract fencing game of perfect information. | 2 | Playtesting | 2014 | |
| Logistics | A game of Logistics in progress | 2 | Playtesting | 2014 | |
| Malice | An abstract strategy game of piece movement, capture and teleportation. | 2 | Playtesting | 2014 | |
| MartianWhist | Resolving a trick in Martian Whist | 2 | Playtesting | 2014 | |
| Martianopolis 500 | Zip around the track to the finish. | 2 | 4 | Playtesting | 2014 |
| Ice Etin's Cave | 4 | Playtesting | 2015 | ||
| 3stica | What if Gnostica and Risk had a baby? | 2 | 5 | Playtesting | 2017 |
| Super Death Ray | Use fighter ships, thievery, super death rays, and a clone army to destroy your opponent's inter-planetary empire. | 2 | 3 | Playtesting | 2017 |
| Traffic Tyrants | A pyramid game inspired by a children's game of traffic lights | 2 | Playtesting | 2017 | |
| Cliff Mining | Use your deduction skills to work out what's in the cliff | 3 | 5 | Playtesting | 2020 |