The game is about avoiding the exploding kitten card at all costs, because drawing it means that the game is over – and you have lost. So, what is Exploding Kittens?Įxploding Kittens describes itself as “a kitty powered version of Russian roulette,” and it’s just that. Yet now that we are past the games explosive launch – the mushroom clouds have blown away, the remains of innumerable kittens have been swept up by disturbed sanitation workers – it’s time to ask whether the game lives up to the hype it promised. Matthew Inman’s Exploding Kittens launched onto the Kickstarter scene in 2015 to a thunderous response, quickly becoming one of the most funded Kickstarter games ever with almost nine million dollars received from backers.įans of The Oatmeal comic series were eager to see a game that wedded Inman’s art style and humour with the work of game developers Elan Lee and Shane Small.
