Overview
At a glance
Is this game right for my group?
ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.
Easier to teach
High replayability
Low interaction
Scales well
Deep strategy
More strategic control
How it plays
How does it play?
Transform a handheld deck by rotating, flipping, and storing cards to build a laboratory that can complete the mission before catastrophe.
Core mechanisms
Key systems that shape the decisions players make.
Deck / Bag Building
Add new pieces during play to improve the cards, tokens, or dice drawn later.
Hand Management
Time and sequence a limited hand of cards to preserve future options.
Cooperative Game
Players coordinate their actions toward a shared objective and win or lose together.
Solo / Solitaire Game
Provide rules and objectives designed for a single player.
Read the full game description
Palm Laboratory adapts the deck-transforming system of Palm Island into a portable science-fiction resource puzzle. You hold the deck in one hand, inspect its top two cards, and either take an action or cycle the front card to the back. Paid actions rotate, flip, or store cards, changing what each card produces and making resources available along the edge of the deck. A chosen Primary Goal sets the victory and defeat conditions, while Research and Experiment missions vary the optimization challenge. The English Portal Dragon edition uses durable plastic cards and packs the complete game into a small tin.
