Exploding Kittens: Curse You!

NEW

I honestly was oblivious to this being a whole new game, I thought it was an expansion! 😅 that's on me! It was really nice to get another set of the game (old one is well loved). It even has brand new artwork on theme. Adorable!!

The mechanic of the game evolving with you is unlike anything I have seen. It really adds a competitive edge with every round played and keeps the table guessing. This can definetly be played for a whole evening to night, which is awesome because the new mechanic is an excuse to play EK all night! Haha!

I am sort of bummed that this is mainly playable only once through, and with the same group for the best experience. You can reset the mechanic, but it isn't as suspenseful. Or rather, it's hard to pass along to another group interested. Like completing a video game and giving the completed game file to someone else. Of course it can be played again, but its just not the same when you already did all the quests. It is still playable and very enjoyable when expanded fully.

Overall, definetly recommend for any!

As longtime fans and players of Exploding Kittens, we were excited to try this out. However, the game at its core is pretty much identical, with the exception of one or two new cards that offer no change to gameplay, and solid additions from expansion packs (like Alter the Future). The new artwork and descriptions are cute and funny, but not any more so than the original game.

Upon adding the first curse, we were able to get a sense of the chaos intended from this addition, but actually getting there was slow. Once we had all the charms and curses in the deck, it was admittedly still rather disappointing.

In theory, it's a fun addition. With an inexperienced or silly group, it could produce well-intentioned and enjoyable chaos. But in a competitive setting with experienced players, the charms and curses are rendered useless, because by the time they're played, they serve essentially no purpose (other than maybe using 3 cards as a Defuse). The generally accepted strategy that enables the most success for us personally is saving all our cards until the end of the game, and then attempting to screw over or outlast our opponent(s). These additions to the deck are largely useless for this card hoarding strategy. We also tend to avoid taking a lot of risks in our gameplay, so, for example, while I had the curse to limit a hand to five cards, I knew the others had cards to move the curse, so I refrained from playing it until I could be confident it would not be moved back onto me -…

As longtime fans and players of Exploding Kittens, we were excited to try this out. However, the game at its core is pretty much identical, with the exception of one or two new cards that offer no change to gameplay, and solid additions from expansion packs (like Alter the Future). The new artwork and descriptions are cute and funny, but not any more so than the original game.

Upon adding the first curse, we were able to get a sense of the chaos intended from this addition, but actually getting there was slow. Once we had all the charms and curses in the deck, it was admittedly still rather disappointing.

In theory, it's a fun addition. With an inexperienced or silly group, it could produce well-intentioned and enjoyable chaos. But in a competitive setting with experienced players, the charms and curses are rendered useless, because by the time they're played, they serve essentially no purpose (other than maybe using 3 cards as a Defuse). The generally accepted strategy that enables the most success for us personally is saving all our cards until the end of the game, and then attempting to screw over or outlast our opponent(s). These additions to the deck are largely useless for this card hoarding strategy. We also tend to avoid taking a lot of risks in our gameplay, so, for example, while I had the curse to limit a hand to five cards, I knew the others had cards to move the curse, so I refrained from playing it until I could be confident it would not be moved back onto me -…

The best part of getting a new version of Exploding Kittens is the new cartoons on every card. Usually. But they found yet another way to make the game exciting! In this version, you have several card packs that you can't open until you win the right in the game. The they become permanent cards, but OMG, THE ANTICIPATON!!!! I wanted to play until we opened them all, but my friends didn't have the stamina. I'm excited to play again soon!

Look, I know I could just open them all because I want to, but that feels like cheating and you what they say about that... I highly recommend this version!

This was basically a new take on the original EK. The only thing that changed during the first game was that the cards are magic themed instead of regular EK cards. The game doesn’t change until you play a round. Once you do, the winner gets to open the first special envelope, which contains a card that will allow you to open the charms and curses envelope, which you can’t open until you play a second game and someone draws the new charms and curses card. I feel like this would have been more effective if the C&C card had already been in the deck, so we could access the charms and curses sooner. Isn’t that the point of this new version of the game? To add charms and curses to make it different? That kind of took some of the thrill out of it that we now have to wait one more game until we can get to those add-ons. However, it’s still a fun game, and I love the new animations and unique takes on how kittens would explode themselves if magic was involved.