Fourteen years have passed since the first announcement.The project went through cancellations and revivals until its launch in 2026. The wait for Mewgenics was worth it, and at Malditos Nerds we rated it a 9, defining it as “a generational classic.”
The new work by Edmund McMillen and Tyler Glaiel moves away from the shooting frenzy of The Binding of Isaac.This time, the duo embraces the RPG’s thoughtful pause and turn-based tactics.Its creators define it as a “chess with thousands of pieces” where the player builds his own units.
The experience is divided into two connected phases.First there is domestic management in Boon County, an environment of suburban decay.Your house functions as a life simulator and genetic engineering laboratory.
Here cats act as containers of DNA.The objective is to cross generations to achieve specific builds and inherit powerful abilities. Imperfections or diseases work in your favor as tactical variables: a cat with weak bones, for example, can develop spines after a fracture in combat.
But home decoration also influences.Furniture affects hidden statistics such as comfort or stimulation, vital in determining whether your cats mate, fight, or improve the quality of their offspring.
When going on an expedition, the game adopts a linear roguelite structure through maps with nodes.The turn-based combat system uses a grid where positioning and environment define victory.Within all of this, there is also total reactivity: fire burns tall grass, water conducts electricity, and ice freezes surfaces.
To define the role of your warriors, you use necklaces that grant classic RPG classes: Warrior, Mage, Hunter, Tank or Thief.When you level up in a run, you draft active or passive skills, which ensures that each cat feels unique.
The difficulty is brutal.If a cat falls and takes too much damage, it will definitely die.There you lose your genetics and all your equipment.Survivors return home as retired veterans, useful for defending your base from invasions or passing on knowledge to new flocks.
Mewgenics offers titanic depth.Completing all its content can take more than two hundred hours.It is an experience that mixes disgust with tenderness and randomness with deep strategy.For those who connect with his proposal of raising deformed cats and taking them to war, it will become an obsession that is difficult to let go.
