30 Great Games Like Exploding Kittens

Our experts have spent time searching for great games similar to Exploding Kittens and have found the following:

Exploding Kittens is a push-your-luck card game like Russian Roulette but with adorable kittens rather than bullets. You take turns drawing cards until you get the Exploding Kitten card and lose. The twist is the various comical and cunning ways you can avoid exploding, like defuse cards or peek cards that let you look through the deck before you draw.

Unfortunately, Exploding Kittens is not available on Android, Mac, PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S or iOS. However, we recommend the following games that offer a similar experience or theme:

Exploding Kittens

Game Details

Release Date: 01/01/2015

Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds

Players: 2-5

Genres: Brain Game, Sequencing (Collecting, Communication and Push-Your-Luck)

Accessibility: 31 features

Components: Cards

Developer: Game Of Kittens (@GameOfKittens)

Costs: Purchase cost

6 Similar Games Short List

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Fluxx

Release Date: 01/01/1997

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: Cards

Fluxx is a sequencing game where the rules are constantly shifting and changing. You start by drawing and playing one card, but as you play, new rules are added and how you progress and also win changes. It's like playing a card game against someone who...

Uno

Release Date: 01/01/1971

Skill Rating: 5+ year-olds

Components: Cards

Uno is a sequencing game where you race to get rid of your cards. You play by adding cards of the same number or colour to a shared pile. It's fast-paced, has simple rules and has almost universal appeal. The fun really starts when you invent your own...

Tacocat Spelled Backwards

Release Date: 01/01/2021

Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds

Components: Cards, Score Board and Tokens

Tacocat Spelled Backwards is a silly battle game played with palindrome-themed numbered cards. Battles are won by placing a higher card from your hand than your opponent. But you win by having the lowest card at the end of a hand to score a point. It...

Bang!

Release Date: 01/01/2002, updated in 2017

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Components: Cards and Tokens

Bang! is a card game set in the wild west where you take on different missions with a range of characters. You try and keep your target secret while building your weapon and defence cards. It's a game of bluffing where it's easier to shoot your...

Hanabi

Release Date: 01/01/2010

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: Cards and Tokens

Hanabi is a cooperative game where you create a firework show by placing the cards in the right order. Your goal is to organise all the suits of cards in ascending order like Solitaire. The twist is that only other players can see your cards and you...

The Game

Release Date: 01/01/2015

Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds

Components: Cards

The Game is a cooperative card game where you work to discard 98 numbered cards onto four piles in order. You aren't allowed to communicate about the cards you have, so you must try and leave things open enough for other players while also working to...

5 Similar Games Long List

Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Exploding Kittens. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Exploding Kittens.

Cockroach Poker Royal

Release Date: 01/01/2012

Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds

Components: Cards

Cockroach Poker Royal is a bluffing, push-your-luck card game where you try and avoid ending up with a set of four matching animal cards. You pass cards to other players and tell them what it is, they guess if you are telling the truth and have to keep...

Bohnanza

Release Date: 01/01/1997

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: Cards

Bohnanza is a trading card game where you plant and harvest bean cards to earn coins. The twist is that you can't reorder the cards in your hand and because you have to plant the first card in your hand each go, trading isn't just about what you swap...

Skull

Release Date: 01/01/2011

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: Cards

Skull is a push-your-luck card game where you try and guess how many other players just laid skulls rather than flowers. The clever bit is that you progressively bid on how many cards you think you can guess right. If you win, you then have to flip over...

Love Letter

Release Date: 01/01/2012, updated in 2019

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: Cards and Tokens

Love Letter is a push-your-luck card game about winning the princess's affection. You use cards with different abilities to knock out the other suitors. With a small number of cards and characters, it's as much about gaining information about what other...

Who Did It?

Release Date: 13/05/2019

Skill Rating: 5+ year-olds

Components: Cards and Tokens

Who Did It? is a silly push-your-luck card game about finding out which animal pooped in the living room. Each player starts with one of each animal and takes turns to play them to claim their innocence before accusing another animal of pooping. It's a...

3 Easier Skill Rating than Exploding Kittens

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16 Board Games Like Exploding Kittens Based on Genre

These are games of a similar genre mix to Exploding Kittens. This includes games from the Collecting, Communication, Sequencing, Push-Your-Luck and Brain Game genres. We pick out games of a similar PEGI rating to further hone these generated suggestions.

The Quacks of Quedlinburg

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1 Board Game With More Documented Accessibility Features than Exploding Kittens

If you like the sound of Exploding Kittens but it doesn’t offer the accessibility you require, the games in this section offer a similar experience but with more Accessibility Features. You can view a full breakdown in our Exploding Kittens Accessibility Report.

Hanabi

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30 Great Games Like Exploding Kittens

Game Details

6 Similar Games Short List

Fluxx

Uno

Tacocat Spelled Backwards

Bang!

Hanabi

The Game

5 Similar Games Long List

Cockroach Poker Royal

Bohnanza

Skull

Love Letter

Who Did It?

3 Easier Skill Rating than Exploding Kittens

5 Similar Video Games to Exploding Kittens

16 Board Games Like Exploding Kittens Based on Genre

1 Board Game With More Documented Accessibility Features than Exploding Kittens

Exploding Kittens is in This List

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30 Great Games Like Exploding Kittens

Game Details

6 Similar Games Short List

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3 Easier Skill Rating than Exploding Kittens

5 Similar Video Games to Exploding Kittens

16 Board Games Like Exploding Kittens Based on Genre

1 Board Game With More Documented Accessibility Features than Exploding Kittens

Exploding Kittens is in This List

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