Eat Your Neighbor on Kickstarter: Everything to Know Before You Back It
Short answer: Eat Your Neighbor is a new card, dice, and board game for 2–6 players about betrayal, backyard BBQs, and burying the neighbors you used to wave to. It's launching on Kickstarter soon. Sign up here to get notified the moment it goes live — pre-launch signups are the single best way to catch early-bird backer pricing the moment a campaign opens.
What is Eat Your Neighbor?
Every player raises a family of small, defenseless creatures called Nugs. You keep yours safe at home. Everyone else's dice rolls, event cards, and questionable life choices are trying to get your Nugs run over, roasted, or shipped straight to the cemetery — before you do it to theirs.
It plays in the same general space as Exploding Kittens (fast, card-driven, constant player-to-player sabotage) but leans much further into dark comedy: sample event cards include Bye Karen, Road Kill, Take a Dump, and Neighborhood BBQ — each one built around a specific, absurd way to take another player's family off the board.
What's in the box?
- 1 game board
- 6 Home cards (one per player color)
- 45+ event cards
- A pair of dice
How many players, and how long does it take?
2–6 players. A full game runs about 20–30 minutes — longer if someone flips the table after a well-timed Bye Karen.
How is this different from Exploding Kittens?
Exploding Kittens is a shared-deck push-your-luck game — the threat is a card sitting in the deck. Eat Your Neighbor is direct and personal: specific cards and dice rolls let you target another player's family by name, which changes the social dynamic at the table considerably. It was playtested on real neighbors before a single line of this page was written. Several friendships did not survive the playtest. The game did.
When does Eat Your Neighbor launch on Kickstarter?
The campaign hasn't launched yet. The fastest way to know the exact date is to join the pre-launch email list — signups get notified the moment the campaign goes live, which typically also means access to the best early-bird pricing tiers before they sell out.
Is Eat Your Neighbor appropriate for kids?
Depends on the kid, and the neighbor. It's built and marketed for adults and older teens who enjoy dark comedy — think "the tone of Cards Against Humanity" more than "family game night," even though the mechanics play fast and simple enough for anyone to pick up in under five minutes.
Where can I see the actual cards and rules?
The full rulebook, sample event cards, and home card designs are viewable now on the official site, along with a short trailer.