How to play Exploding Kittens online?

The phenomenal Exploding Kittens is also available online for a very minimal fee for both Apple app for iOS users and Google Play for Android users. Both are priced at $1.99. It also has bragging rights as the most the most-backed game in Kickstarter history when it came out as well as the campaign with the most number of backers.

When it was available on mobile, it was great, but it only had local multiplayer. Fans are happier now since the game finally has online multiplayer. The way they engineered and designed the multiplayer side of the game is quite simple but very clever too.

You could play online with random players, and you could initiate and also organize private games.

How to play Exploding Kittens privately online with others?

You could organize private games by setting up a game, and then you would be given a code being the host. You could send this code via messenger on Facebook, iMessage, or any other chat or sharing app on your phone. 

The object of the game stays the same, and that's to evade getting an Exploding Kitten card in your hand if you don't have a card that defuses it. All the other cards in the deck help you move, mitigate, or avoid the Exploding Kitten. 

The website describes the game as a kitty-powered version of Russian Roulette but in reality, it's more than that as it requires strategy at its finest. It comes very colorfully with great visual rendition and style courtesy of the maker of The Oatmeal. 

Exploding Kittens is a fun, funny, high-speed game of feline bomb disposal, but it would benefit from some unique features for mobile.

In its digital version, Exploding Kittens has been perfectly well designed and very responsive. There is an addition of a card-counting cat meter amps up the tension at play.

How do you play it online?

There is a Bomb Squad, and you could drag the defuse card from your hand to the cat before the fuse runs out. There is a time element involved that works great at adding tensions in the online game.

Another feature is the Meow Boom, wherein if you don't defuse an exploding kitten, you'll be destroyed by this ensuing explosion.

You need to explode your friends as Exploding Kittens online needs to be played with other people.

After the Cat Rush and at the end of the game, you get a breakdown of who did what and who is left there standing and didn't explode!

Just like the tabletop version of the Exploding Kittens, each player gets their turn to pick up a card. Having a defuse card would help you stay in the game and to avoid being exploded. 

Exploding Kittens for Android smartphones

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.explodingkittens.projectbombsquad&hl=en&gl=US

Exploding Kittens for Apple app for iOS users

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/exploding-kittens/id1040227414

Exploding Kittens cards for a tabletop game

https://www.amazon.com/Exploding-Kittens-LLC-EKG-ORG1-1-Card/dp/B010TQY7A8

After Thoughts

Exploding Kittens is as exciting as its tabletop card version. Both have a common goal to try to avoid drawing an exploding kitten in the deck of 56 cards.

It could both send you to the edge of your seat as you anticipate your turn and what card would you be unveiling.

The suspense and surprise factor of this game is amazingly exciting and super fun.