I got the original Exploding kittens set, and I wanna get all the expansions, however between the many combo packs side games and everything, I'm so confused as to what to get. Can someone give me the comprehensive summary of all the expansion packs?

Also the website constantly says out of stock. I've been checking for months now and It doesn't seem to have stock. Any idea what's up?

Thanks for the help.

🏃🩲 Blaze through life without a care in the world with the Streaking Kittens Expansion! Why worry about that Exploding Kitten card you just drew when you have a Streaking Kitten card in your hand? Now, that fiery kitty is gonna be someone else’s problem…

With five new card flows and three new decks, Streaking Kittens brings more mayhem to your favourite cat-themed explosive card game!

New cards:

Swap Top and Bottom – Sit down for this shocker: this card swaps the top and bottom card of the draw pile. Gasp!
Mark – With this card, you force a player to reveal a card in their hand…and keep it revealed!
Garbage Collection – Everyone chucks a card from their hand back into the draw pile. Give it a shuffle too, obviously.
Catomic Bomb – Send all the Exploding Kitten cards to the top of the draw pile, then end your turn.
Streaking Kitten – Protect yourself from an Exploding Kitten card! With this card in hand, you can hold onto an Exploding Kitten without, well, exploding. So you’ll want to keep it in your hand. If you lose it and still have that Exploding Kitten card in your hand…bad things happen. Immediately.

New decks:

Streaking Kittens deck – This deck is all about stealing. Sounds great, till you remember what the Streaking Kittens card does…
Danger Mode deck – A deck filled to the brim with Exploding Kitten cards!
Attack of the Attacks deck – An unnecessarily aggressive deck that chains together Attacks.

Plus, with the new content sharing update, you can play it with your buddies even if they didn’t get it yet!

Play Streaking Kittens on Exploding Kittens® 2 today – and don’t forget to join our Discord server and tell us what you think!

Base game, Imploding Kittens, Streaking Kittens, Barking Kittens, and Zombie Kittens, all together in what I find to look very good on EK cards - Bordeaux Red sleeves. Happy to have all the main expansions now.

Also for anyone with a keen eye, I had to cheat the position of a card in order to keep it nicely squared off. Wonder if anyone can notice which one.

Like do I just use all of the cards from both packs?

Hello! I own the NSFW version of the base game, which me and my friends enjoy a lot, but my group of friends consists on 9 people and when the whole group is able to meet EK is not an option.

I was thinking about purchasing the Zombie kittens, Recipes for disaster, or the not-NSFW version of the game, and mix one of them with the one I have. I imagine this is viable but, is the game experience the same or having more cards makes it more boring? Which version do you enjoy more? I was also planning to get the expansions.

Received the base game for Christmas and had a decent time with the family (note that none of us are avid board gamers), it seems like a decent party game, somewhat but not completely to my surprise 95% of the comments I’ve seen on /r/boardgames about this game are quite negative, but I’m wondering what the consensus is on the quality of the game once expansions are factored in

Edit: Thanks for the replies so far but I am really looking for thoughts on the expansions specifically

Has anyone tried combining the board game with the regular exploding kittens cards or vice versa? I know the board game specifically calls for the board, so I was planning on adding my regular deck to the mix and trying to experiment with some house rules. Plus I like the box, so I might use it for the rest of my cards so that they all have a place to live.

Ultimately what are your thoughts on the board game and adding regular cards in?

I have imploding kittens, streaking Kittens and barking Kittens. Are there any more expansions I dont know about and if yes which one?

This question gets asked every week lol, here's my opinion on this.
You have two approaches to this question

-=== PATH 1 (~33 to 101$ USD) ===-

-Buy Recipe for disaster (~33$ USD). Its a pack containing almost all cards from all expansions except "zombie kitten (~25$ USD)" and "Good vs evil (~25$ USD)". This is the best value for price.

-You can buy the missing expansions later.

-Its got enough cards to play with up to 5 players, more when you buy the missing expansions.

-You will still be missing some cards (alter the future x5, favor, curse of the cat butt, tower of power), one of which is a good one, potluck. Those cards are found in barking kittens, which Recipe for disaster has some cards from. If you care, you'll have to buy Barking kittens too (~18$ USD)

   

-=== PATH 2 (~20 to ~120$ USD) ===-

-Buy the base game, then look into expansions. Some of the expansions are better than others.

 

-=Start by buying a base game=-

-Base game (15-25$ USD) : Fun but too simple once you get better at the game. Expansions make the game way better. Enough for up to 4 players. NSFW edition and UK edition are just artistic variations of this.

-Base game 2-Player Edition: Not really worth buying, unless you plan on buying all other expansions from the get go (they will make up for the lack of base cards - expansions have lots of filler base cards). If you're remotely unsure, go for base game instead.

-Party pack: DO NOT BUY THIS IF YOU WILL BUY ALL OTHER EXPANSIONS, get base game instead. All expansions have filler cards, and this pack has just more of them. There are no unique cards not found in abundance in other expansions. Still a good standalone buy if you play with a big group (up to 10 players) and don't plan on buying everything.

-Exploding Kittens Cat Burglar Edition: More expensive base game with a cat plushy thing. Do not buy unless you somehow care about the plushy

 

-=Then look into these, IN ORDER OF IMPORTANCE=-

-Streaking kittens (~7$ USD): The cheapest expansion, at around 7$ USD. Best value for price of any expansion, many new cards. Catomic bomb and streaking kitten are great fun.

-Barking kittens (~18$ USD): Best amount of new + interesting cards of any expansion, but more pricey than Streaking kitten.

-Zombie kitten (~25$ USD): the first big expansion, lots of new cards. Some of them are really amazing (dig deeper, clone). Not that much more expansive vs other expansions for the sheer amount of cards. Can be played as a standalone game but should really be merged with the base game.

-Imploding kittens (~18$ USD): Some of its cards are in other expansions as well, and will end up as useless duplicates. Still has a few amazing new cards, namely imploding kittens and reverse, which are great fun.

-Good vs evil (25$): Can be played as a standalone. Only 2 new cards (that are slight variants of existing cards), and adds a coinflip mechanic with armageddon that decides entire games. Card art is based on the netflix show. I personally think this is the worst expansion, and can be skipped entirely.

-You can look at the cards in each expansion to make a better decision using this link: https://explodi.ng/decks

 

 

-=== Want more new cards? ===-

-Eventually, when your EK fascination has matured into a full blown addiction, you might start being interested in custom cards made by the community, which you can find here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/19kGK5Kq9Ho5b23-C7HIhdUCSNQGG7yUfP69r5zgVnQI/edit?usp=drive_link

-you can print these using this guide :

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xf1WzQcDYH3Il9YrCNA0DlxM3cUIBdQLl_3uH0bFExM/edit?usp=drive_link

 

 

-=== Last tip ===-

-SLEEVE. YOUR. CARDS. They WILL degrade with use, some more than others (bombs, defuse, imploding kitten, streaking kitten), making them identifiable and ruining your games.

-If your cards are already damaged, you can buy sleeves with opaque backs.

-Opaque card backs are mostly mandatory for printing custom cards, as no one has replicated the EK card backs well enough and you might run into copyright issues trying to print these card backs anyways. If you know you're going to become a degenerate EK addict, sleeve with opaque backs from the get go.

 -Find the rest of my work here:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1m30f1v32MHTyikfI9fwSHNOfc6Jath0b?usp=drive_link