Also! you can play cat cards, which are different from exploding kittens. You can also play various cards to skip your turn, attack other players, peek at the deck or secretely relocate exploding kittens (relocating an exploding kitten card to a new location in the deck lets you form complex, fun and cruel strategies against other players. If you draw a kitten card, you explode! When you explode, you die and you are out of the game (which is a bad thing), Unless! you play a defuse card which can defuse the kitten using things like laser pointers and catnip sandwiches. You put the cards face down on the table and take turns drawing from them. All of the other cards in the deck are used to move, mitigate, or avoid the Exploding Kittens. 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.

It is a highly-strategic, kitty-powered version of Russian Roulette.

Exploding kittens on desktop