After raising nearly $9 million from backers, the Exploding Kittens card game has gone mobile and is now available on iOS in the App Store. It will soon be available on Android. The popular mobile card game broke a Kickstarter record as the most backed game in the site’s history and reached its funding goal in 20 minutes.
The game, which is described as “a multiplayer card game for people who are into kittens and explosions and laser beams and sometimes goats,” costs $1.99. The app was created by designers Elan Lee and Shane Small and Illustrated by The Oatmeal’s Matthew Inman
“In this highly-strategic, kitty-powered version of Russian Roulette, players draw cards until someone draws an Exploding Kitten, at which point they explode, they are dead, and they are out of the game -- unless that player has a Defuse card, which can defuse the Kitten using things like laser pointers, belly rubs, and catnip sandwiches,” reads the game description on the app store. “All of the other cards in the deck are used to move, mitigate, or avoid the Exploding Kittens.”
Those who do not own Apple products need not worry, as the Android version of the app will be released soon.
"The joy of this game is all in screwing over your friends, and being vicious to people next to you in this funny, light-hearted way," says Substantial's Mike Judge to FastCo.
Currently, the game allows two to five users to play across multiple phones. Design studio Substantial handled creating the mobile version of the app and the developers have noted that more features are on the way.
“It’s not quite a cat yet,” said the creators to The Verge. “It’s still just a kitten.”
