Games like unstable unicorns

Exploding Kittens is a casual dedicated deck card game designed by Matthew Inman of The Oatmeal webcomic, Elan Lee and Shane Small, and first published by The Oatmeal in 2015. Beginning as a Kickstarter project seeking US$10,000 in crowdfunding, it exceeded its goal in eight minutes.

On January 27, 2015, after seven days, it passed 103,000 backers setting the record for the most backers in Kickstarter history. At completion on February 19, 2015, it had US$8,782,571 in pledges by 219,382 backers. The campaign ended as the fourth most funded campaign on the crowdfunding site.

The first play test of Exploding Kittens was recorded on YouTube by Smosh Games, who had the first deck. Delivery to backers started in late July 2015; all backers received the game by September 2015. Exploding Kittens is described as a “strategic card game about cats and destruction”.