Exploding Penguins

2019

Heavily modified version of Exploding Kittens, made after I got frustrated by the lack of agency in the original game. The major change was removing the Cat Cards (which did nothing until you got a matching pair) and replacing them with a wide range of card variants.

Cards from the game

For example, the game now has:

Show The Future - view the top 3 cards (from base Exploding Kittens)
Change The Future - view and reorder the top 3 cards (from the Imploding Kittens expansion)
Prophecy - view the top 3 cards, then draw an extra 2 cards at the end of your turn
Radar - view the top card at the start of each of your turns
Reveal the Future - flip the top 3 cards of the deck (similar to an Exploding Kittens expansion card, but reverses the order of cards and can un-flip cards already flipped in the deck)
PSI-Bomb - Bomb that forces you to draw any cards you view from the deck
Nuclear Future (expansion card) - view the top 3 cards, then move them to a separate draw deck

I slightly got carried away on this front, as the deck now has ~100 cards compared to the original's 56. This means that games are a bit longer than the original, and often end well before the deck gets close to running out due to players attempting to kill each other through card interactions. A possible future refactor may be to remove all the bombs and solely focus on this aspect (provisionally titled "Vicious Penguins")