Tile-laying games

I would argue that Go, Through The Desert, and the game sedjtroll suggested should have a different name just because they lack tiles. Or better, that some other mechanic name would be useful to cover all of the games, something like Placement Relationship games.

But that

There is also a distinction between games that have a free-form nature (Carcassonne being the classic example) and those which have to conform to a predefined board (such as E&T.)

And how about the distinction between those games that are about "territory" and those that are about "position"? The reason Through the Desert is often compared to Go is that they are both clearly territorial games, although one is somewhat less cerebral than the other! E&T meanwhile isn