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CLUSTER GAME-TWO-BOARD · 10 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2026-06-04

Abstract grid strategy games

This cluster covers abstract, turn-based board games for two players (with one four-player variant) played on grids, including connection games (connect four, connect five), Go, Dots and Boxes, and sliding or barricade twists, often with adjustable board sizes or AI opponents. The dated history before the index shows six entries spread across 2015–2016 (two), 2022 (one), and May 2026 (three), forming a sporadic pattern with a small cluster in 2026. Traction is minimal across the board: the leading projects (Bovo, KFourInLine, Kigo) each have only 0 stars.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

FEB 2016: 1JUL 2022: 1JUN 2026: 5AUG 2026: 3
FEB 2016AUG 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 5 hand-coded · 5 unlabelled

Operator · 2 commercial · 7 open source · 1 unlabelled

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 10 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01Bovo0★1 molivehand-codedopen sourceTwo-player board game where opponents alternate placing pictograms to get five in a row on a grid.
  2. 02KFourInLine0★1 moliveopen sourceTwo-player board game where the goal is to align four pieces in a row to win.
  3. 03Kigo0★1 molivehand-codedopen sourceDesktop implementation of the strategic board game Go for a game of two players with adjustable board sizes.
  4. 04Barricade: Strategy Board Game0★9 dayslivecommercialA two-player strategy board game where players race to cross the board while placing barricades to block opponents.
  5. 05PATHLOCK: Strategy Board Game0★2 moliveStrategy board game where two players race pawns across a board while placing walls to block each other.
  6. 06Ithaka Board Game0★5 moliveopen sourceAbstract board game for two players who move colored pieces on a four-by-four grid to align three of one color.
  7. 07Sequence Stars: Board Game0★3 molivecommercialCard-and-board game in which players play cards, place chips on matching spaces, and race to build sequences of five in a row.
  8. 08kfourinline0★unknownlivehand-codedopen sourceTwo-player desktop game where players take turns dropping pieces into a grid to connect four in a row.
  9. 09bovo0★unknownlivehand-codedopen sourceTwo-player board game where opponents alternate placing pieces on a grid to connect five in a row first.
  10. 10ksquares0★unknownlivehand-codedopen sourceTurn-based board game where players draw lines between dots trying to complete more squares than their opponents.

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