Exploding Kittens - The Game

Netflix, Inc.

About this game

Available exclusively for Netflix members.

Bring the catnip. Draw as many cards as you can, and do your best to dodge — or defuse — fatal felines. Or else, boom goes the dynamite!

In this multiplayer, kitty-powered game of chance, players draw cards — until someone draws an exploding kitten and blows up. Then that player is out unless they have a defuse card. Defuse cards allow players to neutralize furry foes with laser pointers, belly rubs, catnip sandwiches or other diversions. All of the other cards in the deck can be used strategically to move, mitigate or avoid. Featuring original art by The Oatmeal.

Ratings and reviews

The game is very good. But there are so many bugs with the software that its hard to comprehend that the developers thought this was ready to release. After a competitor explodes if its your next turn the timer goes off while the animation is playing and you can't do anything and then it auto plays a card ruining the strategy and costing a loss. Occasionally when the bomb goes off one gets stuck and can no longer play. If they at least fix the first item, it might be enjoyable.

Game is fun but app has bugs. It's hit or miss of the app let's my play the card i want to play. Sometimes it will randomly choose for me. And it's not the time limit running out, because it happens right when my turn starts. I'll try to put a card down and it won't let me then it will put a different card down that i didn't want to use. Other times my time limit will run out right when my turn starts. As if the graphics that tell you it's your turn take up some of the time.

I love this game so much, but the app is way too buggy. It frequently freezes when trying to activate the message box, it often phantom-plays a card for you even when there are many other options available for you, and pretty much every other time the app opens, there is nothing on the landing page and you have to relaunch a couple times. Having a super glitchy app ruins this amazing and fun game.