Hot on the heels of Dale Yu’s review of Not Alone: Remastered Edition from Geek Attitude Games, you get to see it again here as I was given a rundown on the new title by the folks at Luma Imports. We also discussed the new release of the popular two player card game, Compile: Main 3 by Synapses Games. Of course, I also had to stop to look at the great art in Postcards it seemed to manage to perfectly fit the cycling around France vibe.
Pair 4 out of 5 picture cards and write down the reasoning as well as the Odd One Out. Match other players’ choices and logic to win points. The Odd Seat player that round can earn even more points with each match! Multiple picture cards with thousands of combinations means every game feels fresh!
During this review, I’ll post two example rounds of cards and you can play the game with me.
Gen Con 2026 – Thunderworks Games
Gen Con 2026 is over (as well as the fall school kick-off) and I’ve come back up for air, just in time to ramp up the annual Gen Con run-down here at OpinionatedGamers. Will I out-do last year’s lineup as seen in last year’s One Post to Rule Them All? Only time will tell, click on your seatbelt and join us for a wild ride through the halls and rooms of Gen Con 2026.
First up, Thunderworks Games, a wonderful company to start my 2026 adventure. My Thursday meeting covered: Fliptoons: Season 2, a sequel to the original card-flipping slot-machine-esque card game; Questline, a fantasy-themed take on the classic Spoons card game; and a pair of expansions for the excellent Tenpenny Parks amusement park building game. There’s the holiday themed Winter Lights and Spooky Nights and the more game-mechanic oriented Innovation.
Not Alone is a game that was first released in 2016 by Geek Attitude Games, and I remember looking at it during SPIEL that year. The game had been picked up by Stronghold Games and given a new US release in 2021. It was quite popular, and the game is making a third appearance in 2026 back under the Geek Attitude banner. This Remastered edition offers improved components as well as an entirely new way to play the game.
Amoebas have escaped and are slithering around in all directions! Catch them fast!
In Panic Lab, the player-scientists have their hands full trying to figure out which amoeba to catch and where it might have oozed off to. To set up the game, shuffle the 25 cards, then lay them out in a circle.
Those of you who’ve followed my writing and social media posting over the years know I have a very special place in my heart for the Disney theme parks… and, prior to becoming the guy who turns a certain shade of green on particularly twisty rollercoasters, I was happy to explore amusement parks like Cedar Point, Kings Island, and Magic Mountain.
Parallel to that is my love of a long lineage of amusement park building computer games – the original wonder that was Rollercoaster Tycoon (plus all of the reboots and expansions), followed by the much more robust Planet Coaster and over the last year or so, the amazing Planet Coaster 2. (You do NOT want to ask me about the park I’m building – it’s the rough equivalent of asking a D&D player about their character.)
The search for a really excellent theme park board/card game has been less successful.
Yes, I know there are a lot of other theme park games out there – this isn’t an exhaustive list.
The theme park game that’s most likely to get to my table right now is Tenpenny Parks – and that gets us past the proverbial Main Street of my autobiographical musings to the hub of my review. (OK, I promise to cut back on the Disneyland metaphors starting… now.)
