Exploding Kittens VR Announced For Fall 2024
Here’s an interesting new release announcement among a slew of recent release announcements for games coming to the Meta Quest 2 and Meta Quest 3.
Exploding Kittens VR will be a Virtual Reality spinoff of the real life social card game Exploding Kittens. As we’ve seen with other VR games like Cards and Tankards there is a lot of potential for VR card games on standalone and PCVR devices.
Not only that, but Exploding Kittens is more of a party game, and so is also part of the more casual VR games genre that is also seeing significant growth on the Meta Quest. It’s easier to sit down and play a light and fun game like Exploding Kittens for a bit then work up a sweat with a VR shooting game or VR fighting game.
This Virtual Reality social card game also seems like it will add quite a bit to the original, physical card game.
It’s good to see a game porting itself to Virtual Reality and making full use of VR to add new puzzles, avatar customization, and gameplay elements to the game that make the addition of Virtual Reality more than a gimmick or a convenience. Rather the addition of VR is a way to enhance the experience of gameplay.
Here is an excerpt of the press release provided by the developers over at Saber Interactive:
“FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – June 25, 2024 – Saber Interactive has announced Exploding Kittens VR, a new experience based on the wildly popular social-strategy card game. Developed under license from Asmodee Entertainment and published by Saber, Exploding Kittens VR is coming this fall to Meta Quest 3 and Meta Quest 2 and is available to pre-order now with a 10% bonus discount!
Exploding Kittens VR combines the hilarious strategy and chaos of the original card game with the full immersive feel of VR for a totally unique experience. Play with up to five players online or play on your own against bots and force your opponents to draw the dreaded Exploding Kitten. Be the last person standing to win! Customize your own in-game avatar, explore the social hub, and dive into a variety of entertaining mini-games.
Key Features:
- Experience Your Favorite Card Game Like Never Before: Socialize with friends and make new enemies in this laugh-out-loud VR strategy experience based on the hit card game.
- Master a Variety of Tools to Win: Use a slew of tools to strategically outsmart your opponents and come out on top. Look into the future, steal items from other players and deny their moves, defuse an Exploding Kitten at a crucial moment, and more!
- Three Unique Game Modes: Battle it out in either classic or blitz mode with up to five players, or against your biggest rival in duel mode.
- Engage with Immersive Social Hub: Discover an array of activities in the social hub, including mini-games, character customization and more!
- First released in 2015, the original Exploding Kittens card game was a breakout success, going on to spawn multiple adaptations across multimedia, including video game consoles, mobile devices, and even an animated television streaming series planned for this summer.”
Exploding Kittens VR is planned for release this fall and is available for Pre-Order on the Meta Quest store for 10% off.
