# Kitty Letter — user reviews > 51 indexed App Store user reviews of Kitty Letter by Exploding Kittens, Inc, rated 4.40/5 from 845 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/kitty-letter/id1510395712/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/kitty-letter/id1510395712.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 593 · 4★ 101 · 3★ 66 · 2★ 34 · 1★ 51 ## Is Kitty Letter safe? Kitty Letter appears safe based on user ratings. The AppsHunter Safety Score for Kitty Letter is 88 out of 100. This assessment is based on 845 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.4 out of 5. Of 845 App Store ratings, 82.1% point to a safe experience, 7.8% suggest some concerns, and 10.1% point to a risky experience. ## Is Kitty Letter legit? Kitty Letter is no longer available in the App Store. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Kitty Letter is 35 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data. ## What do users think of Kitty Letter? Reviews of Kitty Letter are mostly positive: the game is rated 4.4/5 from 845 App Store ratings. What users like most: clever, challenging, and fun gameplay, hilarious story and humor. Top complaints: frequent bugs, glitches, and crashes, progress/profile resets and data loss issues. Summarized from real user reviews. **Pros** - 🤩 Clever, challenging, and fun gameplay - 👍 Hilarious story and humor - 💯 Excellent graphics and art style - 🎮 Addictive and engaging arcade mode - 🎨 Customizable avatars and visuals - 🏆 Satisfying to beat high scores - 🙌 Supports multiplayer with friends and strangers **Cons** - 🐛 Frequent bugs, glitches, and crashes - 🔁 Progress/profile resets and data loss issues - 🔍 Inconsistent word recognition and dictionary - 🔍 Unclear game mechanics and rules - 🔍 Difficulty balancing in later levels/arcade mode - 🔍 Laggy performance after extended play sessions - 🔍 Multiplayer matchmaking and connectivity problems **Commonly reported bugs** - Inconsistent word recognition and acceptance - Opponent cats not registering or attacking correctly - Power-ups and items getting stuck or not working - Profile/progress data randomly resetting - Multiplayer games freezing or disconnecting - Performance issues and lag after extended play **Most requested features** - More story mode content and levels - Customizable game modes and difficulty settings - Ability to save/load profiles and progress - Option to disable story mode and go straight to arcade - Improved word dictionary and recognition - Better controls and responsiveness for letter selection - Ability to manually reset the letter vortex ## Newest reviews (14 of 51) ### 4/5 — Very nice, but doesn’t last *2022-01-28, version 1.09* This game is great. It’s different than other word games similar to it (for example wordscapes, which is good) and is funny because it’s something from The Oatmeal. The only problem is it lasts two seconds. You can beat it in less than half an hour, and everything else gets boring fast. Otherwise it’s fun while it lasts. Very good for if you’re expecting a short game. It’s similar to how The Oatmeal describes cats. They are furry cruise missiles, not intended for long voyages but brief bursts of light across the sky. They find their way across the universe and crash into your heart like a purring, misanthropic meteorite. ### 4/5 — I am obsessed but… *2021-12-30, version 1.09* I want to give this five stars because I play this game obsessively. I love word games and cats and The Oatmeal so all my favorite things. BUT, in single player arcade mode, it will randomly start my game over, even if I have paused it. Sometimes I’ll be close to beating my top score and will go eat dinner and come back to find my game is gone and a new one has begun. Please fix this! It is the only bad thing in an otherwise brilliant, addictive game. ### 4/5 — Please fix the current bugs! *2021-08-26, version 1.09* I find this game entertaining in the best of ways! It makes me laugh out loud, and it challenges me to focus on finding words as well as learning new challenges as I 'level up'... being NOT a gamer, this is all new to me. This is the Very First game I have ever downloaded and likely will be the only one unless The Oatmeal comes up with another thing like this. I'd give it 5 stars but currently cannot play it because it has a bug that won't let me make any words. PLEASE oh please make da bugs go away! ### 4/5 — Great but has some glitches. *2021-08-23, version 1.09* I love this game and I highly recommend it but it does have a couple of quirks. Sometimes during play a stranger mode it seems like opponents are able to play words more than once. I wish there was a way to see every word an opponent plays after the game. It also slows down after a few games and I need to close the app and restart to get things back to normal. ### 4/5 — Nice..but stop erasing my profile?? *2021-05-29, version 1.06* Twice now everything has been reset. Same phone same everything. Its twice since the most recent update. Ive lost my purchases, my stats, everything. Its getting annoying. The game itself is great hence 4 stars. This profile loss is not. And no my kitty’s name isn't vulgar or anything. Loosing my purchases in particular is extremely frustrating and seems a major bug. ### 4/5 — Good, but... *2021-04-29, version 1.06* I love the Oatmeal (one of my cats looks just like this!), like simple little fun brain-teaser games, traditionally didn’t like word games but this one changed my mind about them somewhat. It’s a great little game for enjoying a little break between tasks or what have you, even after the excitement of the new game marathon obsession has worn off. My biggest problem with it, which I hope they fix with an updated version, is that once you’ve gone through all the levels, they’re unlocked to play at will... for a while. Then, they mysteriously all lock again and you have to start over from scratch with the full stories, etc. There are a few levels in the game for which I just don’t care that much, and having them unlocked was a nice way of playing the levels I liked and skipping the ones I didn’t. Now that my game has re-locked for a THIRD time, I just don’t see myself warring with futility again in the hope that once I unlock a level, it’s going to stay that way. :-/ Update: just locked for a fourth time. I’ve decided I can live without it. :-( ### 4/5 — awesome game, could be more *2021-03-16, version 1.05* i love love LOVE the concept, played through the story mode in about half an hour. i think it's super fun and right up my alley, and all signs point to it being a 5 star game. BUT... i think there is so much more potential. different game modes, maybe? or a randomized game mode for multiplayer (like only 2 letter words or only can start with a vowel, something of that sort). maybe some kind of league? or just more story based levels? i don't even need story to go along with it, just challenge levels that get harder as it goes, like arcade mode but level based. overall, i really do love this game, which is why i'm being harsh on it; i want more because i know it could be even better. ### 4/5 — Brilliant sound effects for a good game *2021-03-06, version 1.04* Every time I open up this app, my partner starts to laugh because the sound effects are so over-the-top. The story mode was quite enjoyable and I am pleasantly surprised at how addictive the arcade mode has been. It would be nice to move the collected weapons a bit further away from the vortex. Sometimes items get “trapped” under a letter and I’m not able to drag them out without tapping it *just* right. The dictionary is being used here is a bit suspect. “Exing” is an example of a word it suggested that I could have played...It’s not a word and also - I did try it and it wasn’t accepted! 😅 I do really enjoy this game, and I hope to see some improvements in the future. ### 3/5 — Fun but buggy *2021-03-01, version 1.03* Fun game concept and addictive to play, if you try not to focus too much on the actual workings of the game... half the time I’m playing the cats seem to walk right past my house and not count against me, and the other half my cats do the same to the neighbors house. The game gets even more glitchy if I play to too much without reloading the app. The letter bank has the letters too close together so it’s hard to make words when the pace of the game speeds up and you have a lot of letters. It also seems like there’s no way to tell when the letter bank will reset. I would love to see the bugs fixed since it is such a fun game on the occasions that it does work. I would also love arcade levels with the game variations that are in the story section! ### 4/5 — Cute and addictive *2021-03-01, version 1.03* Cute game—tons of bugs as in actual flaws however. The game you see is not necessarily what your opponent sees—I play my fiancé and we are sitting next to one another so we can see both scores—Frequently we both “win” or one of us is “winning” meanwhile from the other’s perspective our house already exploded. Makes sense since I routinely “win” against opponents with way better words. It’s still addictive. Also I randomly can request a rematch (not always), and more than half the time I am unable to add the pugbug to my opponents vortex. ### 3/5 — Multiplayer is often broken *2021-03-01, version 1.03* The game itself is fantastic, but the multiplayer with strangers is often broken. It seems like two or three different instances of the same game will start at once (sometimes you hear multiple instances of the “321” countdown overlapping with each other and then the game is sluggish), it sometimes hangs when finding an opponent, it sometimes hangs after a game, and I’m having to kill and restart the game multiple times per play session. ### 4/5 — Bugs (Not Including Spider Pugs) *2021-02-28, version 1.03* Fun game, the game is playable and it is fun to see more lore for Exploding Kittens-the premises in the story mode are very funny. The art style and comedy are perfectly in sync. There are a number of glitches I encountered during gameplay. For me, it’s hard to tell if some of them are intentional one way or the other. The items in my inventory are sometimes used by the enemy CPU or when I use them, they may impact enemy cats instead of mine. I am also unsure if I am supposed to be able to see the enemy inventory because it is sometimes visible to me. Looking at other reviews, I see that others also had trouble where finger taps were sometimes not picked up-a manual letter scramble fixes it but I would prefer rather to spell than scramble. Also, the final boss may use letters I already spelled, is that intentional too? ### 4/5 — Love The Oatmeal, fun game *2021-02-28, version 1.03* As a huge fan of all things Oatmeal, I’ve really enjoyed this game so far. The story mode is hilarious and helps teach you some tricks for multiplayer. That being said, multiplayer does have some bugs need to be ironed out. At least when playing a stranger, it often freezes at different points during the match. Sometimes you just need to quit since it won’t reset the vortex or it just freezes gameplay. Otherwise super fun and I hope some more updates roll out. Big supporter! ### 4/5 — Cute? *2021-02-26, version 1.03* The story mode is pretty goofy and far more entertaining than a basic tutorial. The added strategy for what word you play when is also interesting, giving a new dimension to this sort of word game, and enabling competition in a way that’s far more interesting than a straight up race. That said, the number of words that aren’t accepted is frustrating; I’ve only played through 6 or 7 rounds and I’m already finding myself tripping over thinking I have ammunition and the word simply not working. And on the flip side, sometimes the longer word is very modern and takes me by surprise (like things I still doubt are legitimate compound words, ex. soymilks? Really?) So I like it for the concept and the art, but the dictionary really is the base of functionality for a game like this, and that needs work. (Please work on it????) ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Too buggy *2021-03-22, version 1.05* The bugs in this game just blow up its potential. Multiplayer still has issues with not showing attacking cats - screen blank then suddenly health goes down. Same with power ups - my friend watches the ham/fork poof from screen when I claim them, yet saw none of my cats heading towards power up. The real annoying part though is game seems to take a kitty poo every few days and all your stats and progress end up in litter box. I’ve completed full story mode twice to get everything unlocked.. fine for a while and then next multiplayer game I’m back to randomly generated name and story mode resets to fresh player. ### 2/5 — Loved Until It Deleted My Stats *2024-03-29* I played this game every day for a long time. Does it get laggy? Sure, but it’s still fun and free! Does it sometimes play bots in head-to-head instead of real players? Yeah, but still fun to play! (ToughFudge, wherever you are, you were a worthy foe!) Does it even take away a win stat every time I close and reopen the app? Yep, but whatever. Still fun! Then last week it reset my entire account to day 0. No help from app support. No amount of reloading and all that helped. It’s all gone. Kind of a bummer and I’m not sure it’s worth the data draw to keep it around now, TBH. I love the Oatmeal and have a lot of his tabletop and card games. Really disappointed this daily escape is so buggy now. ### 2/5 — Needs ctyalir *2021-03-06, version 1.04* Graphics are clear. Rules are not. Some foreign words accepted, others not. I have used up all letters making words but it does not move on and the cats keep marching to my house while the game decides when to spiral on. Words are too obscure to make it fun. Zaikai? What word is that? Japanese, yes. But I tried German words and they are rejected. I tried olde English. Also rejected. Also for some reason my high score was completely erased after an upgrade. Overall it can be fun for a few distracting minutes. Vocabulary needs improvement and clear parameters. ### 2/5 — Fun for 20 mins *2021-02-20, version 1.02* I’m a fan of The Oatmeal, and was really excited about this game. However, it isn’t much fun beyond the single player story. I get bored playing single player to beat my score. The multiplayer is over too quickly to employ strategy or game mechanics. I feel as if I never actually look at the letters to really think about the words I am creating, while I never really look at the playing field to counter my opponent. It is more stressful and frustrating than fun. Maybe they can come up with a slower single player version with goals. I don’t know how I would fix this game. ### 2/5 — Great Concept, Poor App Implementation. *2021-02-14, version 1.01* This game has an amazing concept and really innovative/interesting mechanics when compared to other word games. The storyline is great, the jokes are funny, and I really like how it implements strategy rather than just “find words fast”. However....one thing I really really hate is the lack of responsiveness in letter selection. Idk why it’s so broken, but often it misses the first letter I pick or won’t snap to later letters. Frequently this causes delays that make the whole game lag behind where I should be and I end up playing an annoying catch up game...which is then further hindered by missed letter selection. Please fix your app so I can actually enjoy the jokes and storyline without having to be annoyed by bad programming. ### 3/5 — The game cheats *2022-12-16, version 1.09* When you play a stranger there are times it’s obvious that the game is playing against you and not a person. There will be points where there is no possible way for your opponent to continue forming words with the available letters yet continue doing so. A recent game there was two possible palindromes to make from the four letters available. After my opponent and I both unleashed them, they were able to send out more taco cats multiple times even though it was impossible. ### 3/5 — Great game, but… *2021-10-30, version 1.09* Pros: A+ humor, story also helps learn mechanics of game, multiplayer is a nice feature (though I’ve only ever played with strangers), amusing art Cons: could use a way to internally reference allowed words (some real English words didn’t work), hard to level up after level five, gameplay relies more on speed than word size, vortex refresh takes a little long…. But the real issue that actually could be fixed: progress loss. There were many times it forgot my progress and then remembered- then one time it completely forgot and, after poking around, only partially restored my profile (kept multiplayer data, partly lost story info) ### 3/5 — Love it, but keep having to reload bc buggy *2021-05-04, version 1.06* I like the multiplayer version and can play several games in a row without getting bored. But l’ve had to delete and re-download the app at least three times because it’ll just get stuck on a blank screen. This latest time, instead of a blank screen, the music and sound effects have stopped working. And they’re on of my fave parts of the game. It’s so funny to hear them say “nice job”’or “Loooser” at the end, and it gives u clues when your playing as to what words work. So a little frustrated at this point :( ### 3/5 — Fun game, but very annoying bugs *2021-04-21, version 1.06* This is a fun game that I really enjoy, but it seems like every other week or so, my profile gets completely deleted. It’s a bummer to lose my high score in the arcade, but what’s super annoying is having to do the whole story tutorial over again to unlock the features. Especially the stupid deer song. It was funny the first time, but after 5-6 times, it is super annoying and there’s no way to fast forward. It is really a drag when I just want to play the game. ### 3/5 — Good, but some issues *2021-04-13, version 1.06* The game is fun, but there are some bugs. Sometimes when you use power ups, they become stuck on the playing field and then you can’t use any of your other ones. Additionally, the game slows down a lot if you’ve been playing for awhile, so sometimes it’s harder to make words because the letter wheel doesn’t respond fast enough. As an improvement to the game, I don’t think both competitors should be able to play the same word. Once a word is played, it should be barred from play. That way, if I play a word early, I can’t later be burned by the exact same word later on when I am out of words using that letter. **Developer response:** Hey there! Thanks so much for the feedback! We'll be sure to pass it along to our developers. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Number one word game *2022-10-08, version 1.09* I don’t really like word games because they’re all “oh, look at this leaf and make words, aren’t you relaxed?” No, i’m not relaxed, because i’m in the middle of a stressful puzzle i can’t solve! But this game just seems easier, and it gives you more letters if you need them. Plus, it has laughs and a good storyline and cutscenes that are actually entertaining, as to distract from the fact that you’re basically playing single-player scrabble. As a cat person, i really like the whole cat aspect of it, the animations, drawings, and sound affects are all really good and you can tell there was a lot of work put into it. ### 5/5 — This game rocks!! *2022-05-21, version 1.09* Seriously love this game and not just cuz I love cats. I love the graphics. Love the weapon perks. And I especially love the grumblings that goes on when the game ends. I don't even mind when I lose and I am told LOSER!!! Too funny. And it's so easy to play a friend. And my kitties I send out are black cat ninjas. Loving this game. Try it out. The only thing I am not clear on is how to unlock the different houses. Probably costs money but if you love word games and a fast pace and you are sick of games loaded with ads and 48 or 72 hr waits for opponents to play back this game is purrrfect for you. ### 5/5 — Yes *2021-12-28, version 1.09* I now have a love for exploding kittens. Off the game topic, I have 2 of your board games and they are AMAZING! I have the game of cat and mouth and exploding kittens. I love kittens and your games are so funny and fun. I couldn’t ask for any more in a brand!! Y’all are amazing. This game is so fun and i’ve only had it for less than an hour now. The art is on point for the humor of the game. Pure amazingness. 🗿❤️👌 I wish I had more to say but your games are to amazing to describe 💖👌 ### 5/5 — Great games. Couple of bugs. *2021-07-20, version 1.06* Big fan. My current favorite game. Spend a lot of time playing. However there seems to be a glitch that allows the computer opponents to repeat words including high value words. Would be optimal to be able to wait for human opponents rather than computer opponents if so desired. Would also be optimal to be able to communicate with equally matched opponents to allow more idealized matches. Occasionally seems that opponents are able to submit too many words too fast to be real - I’m all for playing excellent opponents, but there cannot be huge lines parallel and simultaneous to one another without a glitch. Agree with previous comments about increasing lag with ongoing play. ### 5/5 — YESH 👌 PURRFECT *2021-07-12, version 1.06* So, I searched up “exploding kittens” on the App Store, and it cost money! I like the card game, so I was pretty sad. Then I saw this game made by the same creator. Downloaded, and started playing. The storyline is hilarious, and I like that you add new things every level. The artwork is 👌. I love this. And: NO ADS! Super fun, recommend for everyone! Kids and Adults alike will enjoy the humor, graphics, and sound effects! -Sharktideplayz ### 5/5 — Clever, challenging, fun! *2021-05-02, version 1.06* This game is awesome, a mashup of Boggle and tower defense/survival. I played through the story mode (which also serves as a tutorial) so that I could play arcade mode (which is the only mode I want to play, I don’t care about multiplayer). I really like arcade mode. The pace slowly increases, but it’s not stressful to me. It’s fun to try to beat my high score. I haven’t had the game delete progress yet, like others have mentioned, so I hope that is fixed because I wouldn’t want to play story mode again just to get to the arcade mode. I suggest the developers should let arcade mode always be unlocked for those of us who already know how to play, so if the game resets we can still play arcade mode. I haven’t had any issues yet though. I appreciate the super fair monetizing for such a good game, and no ads. I like supporting developers like this and plan to make one of the optional IAP (purely cosmetic, thank you) to support them. This is the only word game that’s ever felt fun to me. Thank you, it’s a keeper! ### 5/5 — I LOVE it! *2021-03-30, version 1.06* As a long time player of words games, Kitty Letter is a really fun twist. I’m totally addicted! I wish there was more to the story mode—I finished it within half an hour and would love more chapters—but other than that I have zero complaints. Also, thanks for not making messaging between players A Thing. Too many apps allow that, and it usually leads to unwanted harassment. ### 5/5 — 10/10 in humor, interest, and just being a good game in general. *2021-02-24, version 1.02* Hello! I think Kitty Letter is a fun, addictive, and challenging game. I love it! For an example of it being challenging, I am stuck on Level 9 of the story mode😂 I promise, I think you’ll love it if you are reading this so you get an idea about the game, If you are I am going to explain more about the game. Kitty Letter is a game by the creators of Exploding Kittens, a card game with humor, strategy, and is great to play with friends and family! Just like Exploding Kittens, Kitty Letter is a strategy game with the same great humor as the Exploding Kittens game, except instead of playing cards, you are playing letters to make words to make exploding kittens to demolish your neighbor ( In story mode.) But as in multiplayer mode, with friends. This game is absolutely free and is surprisingly fun for a letter game, and remember, “With great Kittens, comes great responsibility.” Thank you for reading my review, and have a good time sending exploding kittens to your neighbors front door! 🙂👍 **Developer response:** Thank you for this review! We're so glad to hear you're enjoying Kitty Letter. - EK Support ### 5/5 — Words like no others *2021-02-15, version 1.01* To say this game is unlike any other word game I’ve ever played is a bit of an understatement. It’s weird, humorous, and challenging. I generally don’t have trouble unscrambling word puzzles but many of the words I encountered were ones I’d never come across. I kind of wish there was a way to make a list of them. I’ve already replayed the game all the way through again and have been enjoying arcade mode. If there’s one critique I can offer it’s that the game should be longer but fingers crossed, that’s something we’ll see in the future. ### 5/5 — Thank you! *2021-02-14, version 1.01* Finally - a game I can play against everyone in my family, and win every single time! The video game world is not exactly set up for people like me - people who are not lingering in their teens. But here at last, there is a benefit to having lived long enough to remember what words looked like when they were more than text abbreviations. And when my husband and daughter get tired of losing to me, we can sit on the couch together to play against a stranger. While I am busy forming words like there’s no literary tomorrow, my family can get busy lobbing spiders and bombs for me. I have to admit... it’s honestly nice to hear, “You’re awesome, mom,” come out of my daughter’s mouth in regards to a game. Well, ok, it’s nice to hear those words at all. But Kitty Letter definitely gave me a few points in her eyes. :) --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-06-10.*