Wingspan vs Exploding Kittens® 2
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Wingspan
A relaxing, award-winning strategy card game where you discover and attract birds to build wildlife preserves. Compete with up to five players to create powerful combinations and score points through birds, bonus cards, and goals.
- Discover and attract birds
- Build wildlife preserves
- Engine-building strategy
- Single and multiplayer modes
- Animated birds with real sounds
- Multiple scoring methods
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Wingspan is a relaxing, award-winning strategy card game about birds for 1 to 5 players. Each bird you play extends a chain of powerful combinations in one of your three habitats. Your goal is to discover and attract the best birds to your network of wildlife preserves. You are bird enthusiasts—researchers, bird watchers, ornithologists, and collectors—seeking to discover and attract the best birds to your network of wildlife preserves. Each bird extends a chain of powerful combinations in one of your habitats. Each habitat focuses on a key aspect of the growth of your preserves. In Wingspan up to 5 players compete to build up their nature preserves in a limited number of turns. Each beautiful bird that you add to your preserve makes you better at laying eggs, drawing cards, or gathering food. Many of the 170 unique birds have powers that echo real life: your hawks will hunt, your pelicans will fish, and your geese will form a flock. Features - Relaxing strategy card game where your goal is to discover and attract the best birds. - Single player and multiplayer modes for up to five players. - Based on award winning, competitive, card-driven, engine-building board game. - Hundreds of unique, animated birds with their real life sound recordings. - Multiple ways to accumulate points with birds, bonus cards and end-of-round goals.
Exploding Kittens® 2
Experience the chaotic fun of a popular card game with friends. This digital version features customizable avatars, animated cards, and new ways to play, including the highly requested "Nope" card. Engage in quick rounds of strategy and luck to be the last player standing.
- Customizable avatars
- Emoji reactions
- Multiple game modes
- Animated cards
- Online multiplayer
- AI opponent
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The ultimate card game with friends is back with a bang, people! EXPLODING KITTENS® 2 has it all – customisable avatars, emojis, oodles of game modes and cards full of quirky humour and animations sleeker than an oiled kitty with catnip-fuelled zoomies! Plus, the official EXPLODING KITTENS® 2 game brings the most-requested mechanic of all…the Nope card! Stuff a glorious Nope Sandwich right into the horrified faces of your friends – with extra Nopesauce, of course. HOW TO PLAY EXPLODING KITTENS® 2 1. Download the EXPLODING KITTENS® 2 online game. 2. Optional: Get your friends to download it too. 3. Each player plays as many cards as they like on their turn OR passes! 4. The player then draws a card to end their turn. If it’s an EXPLODING KITTEN, they’re out (unless they have a handy Defuse card). 5. Keep going until only one player is left standing! FEATURES - CUSTOMISE YOUR AVATARS – Dress your avatar up in the season’s hottest outfits (cat hair not included) - REACT TO GAMEPLAY – Personalise your emoji sets to ensure your trash talk has a razor-sharp edge. - MULTIPLE GAME MODES – Play alone against our expert AI or impress your mum with your sparkling social life by playing with friends online! - ANIMATED CARDS – The mayhem comes to life with awesome animations! Those Nope cards just hit different now… Steady yourself, think of calming waves and draw a card!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Exploding Kittens® 2 at $4.99 against Wingspan's $9.99. Exploding Kittens® 2 also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). Wingspan's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 2 weeks) and ratings volume (13K vs 3.7K). On rating, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Wingspan costs $9.99 and Exploding Kittens® 2 $4.99 up front. Wingspan sells 12 one-off in-app purchases and Exploding Kittens® 2 sells 20 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Wingspan against 4.8 for Exploding Kittens® 2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 13K and 3.7K respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 61% of Wingspan's written reviews are positive against 60% of Exploding Kittens® 2's.
Wingspan ships an update weekly, Exploding Kittens® 2 every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Wingspan | Exploding Kittens® 2 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $9.99 | $4.99 — better |
| Rating | 4.8 (13K ratings) | 4.8 (3.7K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 61.0% of reviews — better | 59.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 13K — better | 3.7K |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | #6 — better | #9 |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1.0 GB | 443 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Monster Couch | Marmalade Game Studio Limited |
Customer experience
Wingspan
Exploding Kittens® 2
User reviews
Wingspan
From 13K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🎨 Beautiful gameplay
- 🎶 Lovely music and sound effects
- 🕰️ Relaxing and calming experience
- 📚 Educational bird facts
- 🕹️ Faithful digital adaptation of the board game
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent crashes and bugs
- 🔍 Small text and icons difficult to read
- 🕰️ AI opponents take too long to make moves
- 🔋 High battery consumption
- 🤯 Frustrating online multiplayer experience
Exploding Kittens® 2
From 3.7K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Fast-paced gameplay
- 👍 Charming animations and visuals
- 🤩 Engaging and fun experience
- 🎨 Customizable skins and backgrounds
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent crashes and bugs
- ⏱️ Slow animations and gameplay
- 💰 Expensive in-app purchases
- 🤖 Unresponsive AI opponents
Bugs and requests
Wingspan
Reported bugs
5 issues- End-of-game buttons not working
- Unfinished games not clearing from main menu
- Inconsistent response when tapping on cards/habitats
- Incorrect behavior of certain bird abilities
- Crashes when playing specific card combinations
Requested features
8 requests- Ability to reorder cards in hand
- Option to save/friend usernames for online play
- Faster AI turns
- In-game chat function
- Ability to view opponent's hand size
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- Option to disable end-of-round animations
- Leaderboard for online competitions
- More detailed achievement descriptions
Exploding Kittens® 2
Reported bugs
4 issues- Nope card not functioning properly
- Leaderboard not updating correctly
- Inability to leave a game after losing
- Forced account creation for online play
Requested features
4 requests- Add a turn timer to prevent stalling
- Allow custom deck creation and configuration
- Improve online multiplayer stability and matchmaking
- Bring back the original game's sound effects and personality
In-app purchases
Wingspan
- Seasonal Decorative Pack$4.99
- Woodland Wonders Pack$4.99
- Seasonal Decorative Pack 2$4.99
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- Birds of Continental Europe$5.39
- Bird Pack: Additional Asian Avians$5.99
- Bird Pack: British Birds$5.99
- European Expansion$9.99
- Oceania Expansion$11.99
- Asia Expansion$11.99
- Bird Packs Season Pass$12.99
- Bird Packs Season Pass$18.99
- Bird Packs Season Pass$24.99
Exploding Kittens® 2
- Santa Claws Card Back$0.99
- Mystic Mayhem Card Back$0.99
- Beach Day Emoji Pack$0.99
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- Beach Day Card back$0.99
- Kitchen Chaos Emoji Pack$0.99
- Kitchen Chaos Card Back$0.99
- Mystic Mayhem Emoji Pack$1.99
- MysticMayhem Cauldron Creature$1.99
- Glenn Coco$1.99
- Sea Rat Outfit$1.99
- Beach Day Location$1.99
- Slice of Heaven Outfit$1.99
- Yucky Buddy Outfit$1.99
- Kitchen Chaos Location$1.99
- Santa Claws Pack$4.99
- Mystic Mayhem Pack$5.99
- Beach Day Pack$5.99
- Kitchen Chaos Pack$5.99
- Sun and Spice Bundle$7.99
- Explosive Expansions Pass$9.99
Questions
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