“The co-development of a game and animated series breaks new ground for Netflix,” Mike Moon, Netflix’s head of adult animation, said in a statement. Netflix has paid Exploding Kittens to license the rights to the card game's intellectual property, representatives from both companies told dot.LA. Players can “defuse” the cats with cards representing laser pointers and catnip sandwiches, according to the game’s description. Its flagship game of the same name is a Russian-roulette-style competition, in which players try to avoid drawing “Exploding Kitten” cards that eliminate them. Launched in 2015, Exploding Kittens claims to have sold more than 18 million tabletop games in over 50 countries.

It’s the first time that Netflix will launch a mobile game and adapt it into a TV series.

The streaming giant, which has recently expanded into the realm of gaming, will release “Exploding Kittens - The Game'' on mobile devices in May and follow that with an “Exploding Kittens” adult animated comedy series in 2023, it announced Monday. Netflix will launch a mobile game and TV show based on “Exploding Kittens,” a popular card game created in Los Angeles.

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